The ghoul was closer to her while Barron stood on the other side, in front of it.
Belle said, "What are you doing here?" she asked the ghoul but when it spoke in a language she didn't understand, her eyes fell on Barron if he knew what it was speaking.
"I have no clue what it is speaking. We don't speak the same," said Barron, his eyes still on the ghoul where he had not put his scythe away from him and continued to look at the ghoul as if not knowing when the ghoul would or might attack.
Lucas who stood behind Belle looked at the ghoul that had appeared in the mansion. Hearing Belle tell she knew it, he turned confused, "Though we come from the very same realm of the dead, ghouls have their own language, it isn't something we can understand," he said to her.
The ghoul garbled again and Belle was lost as to what it was trying to say to her, "It's okay," she said to Barron, pus.h.i.+ng his scythe away from her, and she stepped towards the ghoul. Her height fell short in front of the tall cloaked ghoul that looked as if it had a broken skull behind the veil of the cloak that it had draped around it.
Belle raised her hand forward and the ghoul looked down at her hand and then back at her for sometime before it placed its hand on hers.
'I have been looking for you,' she heard the whisper coming from the ghoul and she took a sharp intake of breath.
She could hear it speak. There was no movement of mouth or sight of mouth in its face yet she could hear it speak right now. A cold s.h.i.+ver ran down her body. After coming back from the land of the dead, Belle had wondered why she had picked a memory of the Lord. The lord couldn't have stayed in this mansion and she then realized who she had seen before fainting from exhaustion.
The ghoul had been running its hands on the walls and she just happened to have touched an overwritten memory on the wall that was left by it.
"What do you want from me?" Belle asked him.
'The girl is getting corrupted. She will die,' Girl? Who was it talking about? asked Belle to herself.
"I don't know who you are speaking about," she said looking up at the ghoul. The creature didn't respond to her words and instead, it continued to look at her.
Lucas who was standing behind took a step forward to see the ghoul bringing up its hand as if ready to inflict. Belle also turned seeing this and she said to the ghoul, "Lucas is not going to hurt anyone here. Tell me who the girl is. Who is going to get corrupted?" she asked it aloud.
Barron was as surprised as Lucas that Belle could communicate with a creature they had never spoken to in many years.
It wasn't the ghoul but it was Lucas who replied back as if figuring it out, "Vivian?" the ghoul garbled the words for Belle to hear.
'We cannot take names. Even the wind carries messages and I am not supposed to be here,' said the ghoul and in a blink of an eye, the ghoul disappeared in front of them.
"Well wasn't it kind and polite in its chat," Barron commented sarcastically, "Why do we have a ghoul here in the first place? Are all the creatures from the dead getting invited to come here in to live in the land of the living? I know I am great but they don't have to follow my footsteps," said the rabbit fluffing its ear after putting its scythe away.
"Have you met the ghoul before, Belle?" asked Lucas and she gave him a nod.
"There's something I need to tell you," Belle frowned with a small awkward smile not knowing what Lucas was going to to tell once he would find out that she had manipulated the events and it wasn't just that.
Barron who heard this looked at Belle before taking a look at the corridor again to test the temperature where it was still cold. Lucas in the meantime waited for Belle to speak.
"I...Before I fell unconscious, I stumbled upon a memory of Lord Nicholas."
"He never lived here," Lucas mentioned to have her a nod.
Belle walked towards the window and turned around to place her back against it, "He didn't. The ghoul was moving here, walking in this mansion. Touching the walls."
"And it left the imprints of its memories?" he asked her.
"Yes. It was a memory when the Lord was a young boy before he came to be the Lord of Bonelake. Something bad happened to him," she said getting the flashes of the image of his mother whose clothes were torn and she was a.s.saulted until she was left dead in the room. She couldn't fathom the pain he would have to go through to have his dead mother decaying in the room, "And he started to corrupt in front of me."
Lucas broke her words while reading between the lines of what she said. Undoubtedly, the Lord of Bonelake was in no place to be called as a corrupted vampire physically.
"I wasn't just seeing but I was there. I don't know what and how it is because its the first time I have ever felt or done this, I could move things," she said to Lucas that had him frown, "When I saw the young boy getting corrupted, I also saw the corrupting creep into this world through the portal, trying to sink inside of him and I...I stopped the corruption..." she trailed.
