The Devil's Cursed Witch novel Chapter 107

When Ember stepped out of her chamber, her attention was on her dress rather than her surroundings. She had to carefully hold her long flowy skirt in her hands so she wouldn’t trip over her dress.

‘Bear it for a day,’ she consoled herself. ‘From tomorrow onwards, I’ll refuse to wear such a long dress.’

Because her mind was focused on keeping herself upright, she thoughtlessly crossed the grand hallways without any particular direction in mind. She had seen a number of servants on the lower floors yesterday, but this particular part of the palace was empty, without a soul in sight.

‘This is more comfortable for me, actually.’

The carpeted hallway had huge glass windows on one side which had their panels open, allowing plenty of sunlight and fresh air to enter inside the palace. With each step of hers echoing, those long curtains seemingly moved along it.

Chirp, chirp?

Suddenly, Ember stopped in place. Hearing such a playful chirping voice, she turned around to search for its source. The flapping of the wings caught her sight, and she saw an adorably small bird flying in the hallway, taking random stops on various spots along the wall, especially where the lamps were hung.

‘Did it enter by mistake?’ she wondered and went towards it, but sensing her presence, it seemed frightened and fled from her. Without a thought, Ember followed that small bird despite struggling with her heeled shoes and that unbearably long skirt.

‘I wonder what that bird is called. I remember Leeora mentioning the birds commonly nesting in the trees of Ronan. The brown ones are called sparrows, and the white ones are doves. This bird is white but it is too small to be a dove.’

Though it was flying several feet away from her, she could see it was one beautiful bird. Its body was covered in white feathers, with a yellow face and crest, and a long tail. The funny thing was that it seemed to have two red-orange spots on its cheeks, making it look like it was blushing.

Ember wished to see it closely and continued to follow it. Unknown to her, she had crossed the boundary between the southwest wing that belonged to her and the southeast wing that belonged to the King.

After a while, Ember realized the bird wasn’t frightened–in fact, it seemed to be playing with her. It would land somewhere as if to rest, but once she came close, it would fly away again.

Ember didn’t mind it, and she even forgot how troubled she was with her dress. All she wanted was to see this bird and touch it once it got tired of playing.

“Ah? Little bird, where are you going? Wait for me!”

The bird seemed to tease her before heading inside one of the rooms along the hallway. It appeared like one of the doors was left ajar, and the naughty bird entered through the small gap left between the door and the doorframe.

Ember stopped in front of the door, pouting that the bird was troubling her to this extent. She didn’t even know in which part of the palace she was in.

‘It should be fine to enter since I was allowed to explore the palace, right?’

She slowly, ever-so-quietly pushed the door open to take a peek if someone was inside, and she let out a sigh of relief when she sensed no one inside.

She opened it slightly, only enough for her small body to enter the chamber, and realized–

‘That large canopy bed and that fancy chandelier on the ceiling, not to mention this soothing smell of the forest. Isn’t this…?’

The chamber was familiar. In fact, she had even slept here. It was the King’s chamber where Leeora said she had spent the past two days sleeping.

‘Oh, no. Will he get mad if I intrude?’