The Devil's Cursed Witch novel Chapter 20

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Leeora and the human girl reached the Forest of the Elves as soon as they travelled past the palace walls. On the way, the elf elder didn’t try to talk to her and merely let her curiously look around her surroundings.

The human girl did not even hide her emotions at the majestic sight she was seeing—luscious trees with leaves a vibrant green and trunks strong and tall, colourful bunch of mushrooms and flowers randomly blooming about, and small animals like squirrels peering, birds singing and rabbits innocently hopping about.

She observed each and every one of them carefully, amazed by the lively atmosphere of the forest. For as long as she could remember, she had lived within that dead mountain, where all she could see were dead trees with white barks and rotten logs. The only other inhabitants of such a barren place were vultures, crows and insects.

Soon, her mouth was left gaping open upon the sight of the largest trees she had ever seen. Their trunks were so wide, it might need at least twenty adults to wrap their arms around its body to hug the entire trunk. On each of those trees were what seemed to be houses, and interconnecting each house were hanging bridges created of vines and tree branches.

As she continued to ride Lusca the Stag, she could see children with pointed ears running and playing with other animals in the forest. She heard laughter and music and the most beautiful people with pointed ears bustling about, merrily talking to each other. Though they looked over when they noticed her passing, they were not glaring at her or shooting looks of disgust towards her. They were curious, mostly wary since there was an outsider.

Leeora smiled, seeing her reaction. “Welcome to Ronan, one of the cities of Agartha and the home of the Wood Elf Clan. It is a place which you will also call your home starting from now.”

The elves observed this outsider. If she were an adult woman, the Wood Elf Clan might have openly shown disgust and hostility towards her, but based on her appearance, the outsider might be only about fourteen or fifteen years in terms of human age. She was but an infant for elves whose lifespans were as long as a thousand years.

Her injured appearance made her look pale and frail, and her thin body looked starved. Not to mention, she looked pitiful because of her bandages and clothes, and this caused many of the adult elves to feel sorry for her. The fact that Leeora, their clan leader, was also escorting her also lessened their ill feelings towards this human guest.

“Is that her? The female Erlos is talking about?”

“The woman the King brought to his bed?”

“I don’t think so?”

Thanks to Erlos’ antics, gossip had spread among the palace servants that their king had brought a woman to his bed. Some of these servants also lived in Ronan, and they shared the gossip to their family and friends.