"Ah, yes. I did think about it," Penny agreed on what he had heard was true, "But I dropped the idea of it," they had started to walk down the corridor again. 

She heard Elliot comment on it saying, "It is a wise decision. If you want to keep your mental peace then one shouldn't enter the council. Truthfully, stepping any close is not good either but you are already in the mix. So welcome to this side of the dark life."

"All of you make it sound so bad," she said with a small frown. She realized she had been frowning a lot lately. Damien had said the same to her.

"You don't feel like your life has changed?"

Penny made her expression turn to as if she was thinking hard about it before shaking her head, "No."

"No? Well, that is a surprise," Elliot gave her a surprised look as if he didn't expect that to be her answer. 

"My life has been like this since I was little," and it was the truth. It was just that her mother had meddled with her memories which was why few things were filled with rainbows but it was only a lie. There was never a rainbow and it had only been dark clouds with rain. 

"Tell me more about it," Elliot coaxed her, interested to know her side of the story as he had nothing else to do right now.

Penny took a deep breath before saying, "When I was little I saw something which I wasn't supposed to see and my mother started to erase my memory and she continued to do every time I didn't listen to her and now that my memories are returning, she wants to kill me," she turned to something short and sweet.

Elliot clapped his hands together, "Your mother must be on the hit list of to be killed then."

"You could say that," every time she tried to speak about it through words, the thought sank deeper into her mind on what was about to come in the future. The emotions had moved from love, pain, betrayal, shock and was slowly converting to something else that she was still trying to figure out. To hate someone so quickly was difficult but Penny wasn't blind over how her mother had treated her. 

Not once or twice but time after time, she had hurt her for her own advantage and when the time came she left..but why? Penny had been so wrapped around the fact that her mother had tricked and used her, she now came to realize that she had never tried to find out why exactly her mother chose to fake her death.

It couldn't be her, Penny had done nothing and her memory had not returned for her mother to flee away. 

Was someone hunting her? Was it possibly a witch hunter? Questions started to pop in Penny's mind and she now had new things to find out once they would be back in Bonelake. The first thing she would have to do was to backtrace the events. Finding the start was difficult therefore she had to go one step back after another to see and understand what was going on. 

"Everything okay?" she heard Elliot ask her. 

"Yes," she responded back with a smile. Having spoken to Elliot, she felt a little more relaxed around the vampire than feeling him be a stranger.

"Do you like flowers, milady? Martin is digging and adding some fresh plants in there. Because of the cold weather, the flowers which were blooming have now frozen and they refused to live. He always brings new plants and keeps replacing them."

"How often is that?"

"Three to four days if the plants are lucky?" he shrugged his shoulders. Making their way down the stairs and out of the mansion, they walked towards the back garden where Martin was with two servants who were a.s.sisting. Or at least that is how it looked but the butler refused the servants from touching the plants not believing they would do the job right. 

"Martin, planting a new flower today?" Elliot questioned the butler who was busy digging the first plant out of the ground which had frozen to the point where it looked lifeless and dead. 

"Yes, Sir Elliot," the butler's words were crisp and short as usual. 

Penny looked around the mansion, watching some of the trees which weren't too far away from the mansion that had turned bald where it hardly held any leaves on its branches or stems. It looked like a barren land with nothing but snow all over the land which stretched from one end to another.  

With nothing else to do right now, Penny watched the butler plant the flowered plant as if it was the most interesting thing she had ever watched. Seeing him take one after another to replace it with new plants. 

"Where did you get so many of them? If I didn't know you better I would have thought you are growing them in your own room," Elliot commented to receive no reply back from the butler who continued to work with the plants. 

The ever so stoic butler didn't heed to any remarks and only continued his work, giving the servants the dead plants to hold before he would start planting the new one. Penny who was looking at it for a while looked at the forest with the leafless trees and then back at the plant and then she slowly looked back at the forest and her eyes widened. 

Elliot, who had been calmly poking fun at Martin, saw Penny who ran inside the mansion, gaining the servant's attention if she had suddenly fallen ill. Going to the study room she brought the gla.s.s out with the blue solution which she hid in a cloth. 

Startled that she was leaving somewhere suddenly, Elliot asked, "Where are you going, milady?" seeing her run towards the entrance gate.