From the warm, closed room, Belle could again breathe and her eyes trailed over a shadow that moved in front of her. Old ragged robes dragged on the floor and her eyes moved up to look at the ghoul that stood not too far in front of her. She saw how the ghoul touched one side of the wall as it moved and before she could approach it, her head had started to feel dizzy and her eyes not able to keep up with her surroundings.
"Belle?" she heard a voice call her name which she believed to be Lucas and fell on went to fall down but Lucas moved quickly and he caught her before her body could hit the floor.
By the time Lucas looked up and in front of him, there was nothing but emptiness there. Carrying her to her room, he placed her on the bed. At the same time, Barron who was outside in the patio waiting to dry his legs as he had only washed it himself heard the sound of the door and hopped down to get back and see Belle on the bed.
"What did you do to her?" asked Barron walking towards the bed, his legs leaving wet marks on the floor and some that was getting soaked by the carpet. Seeing Lucas who was worried, Barron went closer to take a look at Belle where he noticed her dress that was stuck with blood along with her and hands.
Lucas didn't reply to Barron and instead checked Belle's pulse that appeared weaker than what he had felt before and he checked her temperature before flipping the pocket watch to see she still had time.
"Get out of the room," said Lucas to Barron as he went to the cupboard and took Belle's clothes so that it could be changed.
Barron would have questioned more but he noticed how the thirteenth card of Grim was in an irritated mood, there he saw himself out of the room. When Barron returned back after half an hour, he saw how the girl was wearing fresh clothes as she had been changed by Lucas. She still appeared to be unconscious.
If the reaper had pulled out his watch to check the time of the girl, it meant something bad had happened. Barron had his own watch but with him stuck in the rabbit, there was no way he could use any of his abilities except for the scythe.
"Her pulse is weak," Lucas mentioned when Barron hopped on the bed to look at Belle.
"What happened to her? Where did she get that blood from?" asked Barron. The complexion on her face did look weak and pale right now but she appeared to be sleeping.
Lucas doubted it was from the land of the dead because all this time when she had stepped into the land of the dead, it was usually when she was sleeping. Belle appeared to be having conscious but had lost right when he had called her name.
Where did she go then?
Though she had come back safely and with no wounds on her, he wondered whose blood it was that had caught her dress and feet as if she were walking on a pool of blood.
Belle's pulse did come back to normal and Lucas sat next to her, waiting for her wake up when she would but Belle didn't wake up that night. She didn't wake up the next morning that had Lucas worried. The hours continued to pa.s.s by and Lucas wondered if he should call a doctor but no doctor could help if Belle was not just sleeping but she was in the land of the dead.
"How many hours has it been since she pa.s.sed out?" Barron asked trying to move her hand that was on the bed but the girl didn't move one bit nor did she wake up, "Almost a day? What does her pulse say?"
Lucas checked her pulse for the nth time in the day to see it was working fine. If she wasn't going to wake up in the next hour, he would have to get Isabell to see if she was alright but the question was what if her soul had wandered to the land of the dead and it was unable to come back?
"It seems normal."
Barron who was sitting on the bed looking at Belle, muttered, "She looks so pretty. Like an apple. You said her soul is halved into two parts. What if the one that was here went to the land of the dead?"
Lucas who had the pocket with the clock ticking with the needle in it flipped it close and got up, "Are you thinking about going to the realm of the dead?" Barron asked startled because it wasn't safe to go there. Compared to the dead, the land of the living was much safer as they could go underground but the land of the dead, the creatures would try to pounce on him.
Right now Lucas didn't care about it and he picked up the coat from his room to come back to the room, "Take care of the mansion and her."
"What if the maids come looking for you or her?" Barron asked quickly, standing up.
"I will be back before that," Lucas said putting on the coat and looking down at Belle who was asleep and hadn't woken up. If she truly was there then he would have to go there and search for her.
Barron felt this was a bad idea, "What if you can't make it back?" it wasn't just Lucas but he Barron would have to spend the rest of his time stuck to the stuffed rabbit.
"Watch her for me."
And Lucas disappeared from the room without another word.
