Chapter 76
It had been too long since she last was here . After her mother's death, Penny had not returned . With her mother gone, there was nothing to return too . With the little essential items that were in the house was sold in the market to the man who sold the items further to others . It was the very money which she had hidden until now safely at least that's what she thought it to be in the village where her uncle and aunt resided, which wasn't this one .
It felt nostalgic to Penny that she had returned here after months that had passed by . The door was locked which was obvious as after Penelope had left the village, the magistrate had taken the house under his department which was yet to be demolished until something had to be built . But a human village like this, there was no scope for improvement . At least that's what the magistrate and the men one level above the magistrate thought who didn't lend any money but only took hold of the tax of the people by cheating them and keeping them as poor as possible so that they could fill up their own pockets .
Penny didn't know why Damien wanted to come to have a look at where she used to once live . Turning, she looked at Damien whose eyes were glued on the condition of the house where the house would break by itself with a few more rains being hit on the roof . Especially rains that belonged to the land of Bonelake wasn't gentle to houses that weren't built strongly to only let it fall apart in time .
Damien who had his eyes on the house saw how tattered the house was . His blood-red eyes not only looking at the house but also taking a look around where he could see from the corner of his eyes at the neighboring houses where some of the families came to take a peek at them . He was well aware of the intrusion that had raised the cautiousness in this village because of his presence .
But what he hadn't expected was the eyes that Penny received from her fellow villagers . There were contempt and hate directed towards which made him wonder why it was so . With what he had heard about her family, her father had run away from his wife and child with no word . Or had disappeared as Penny had said . But wasn't it a little too much for the villagers to behave this hostile towards Penny?
"Look she's back," both Damien and Penny could the not so quiet whispers that went near them . There were three women who stood with the baskets that were hitched on the sides of their waist .
"I thought she wouldn't be back with her mother gone," said another woman, "Look at the strange clothes . "
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