Beast of the Frozen Night

r her to want to sleep more, but strangely, the thought that she absolutely had to go to the greenhouse filled her head.

“Madam, you will fall.”

Emily, chasing after her, cried out restlessly, but Anne kept moving her feet.

Arriving at the small flower bed, her eyes found something slightly different.
The green sprouts that had sprouted on top of the mound looked like they would soon bloom.

“Madam, why did you come here all of a sudden?”

Emily knew that Anne often visited the greenhouse to pass the time, but it was the first time she had gone there so early in the morning.

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“I suddenly wanted to see the flowers.”

It was an unfamiliar sentence even though she said it herself.
She always admired the gardeners’ support, but she had never looked for it herself like this… A flower was just a flower, but her body got up on its own as if it could not bear not to come.

Emily was puzzled by Anne’s answer, as she had never been very interested in anything, but she ignored it, thinking that Anne was secretly lonely due to the Grand Duke’s departure.

At the time when Anne was quietly looking at the sprout, there was a sudden uproar outside.

“Is something going on?”

“Wait.
Let me ask.”

Emily rushed toward the door.
Just in time, through the open door, the chief attendant Wald and the knight commander bowed silently and entered.

“Sir Abreham?”

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He was the Commander of the Cromund’s Second Knights, whom she had seen a few times.
Originally, he should have left with the First Knights, but the Grand Duke left the Second Knights on purpose as a force to protect the castle.

He was on his way to report, and greeted her with an unusual complexion.

“What happened?”

“It was said that several houses were swept away by an avalanche that suddenly occurred in the village of Tahor, which was close to the mountains in the north of the territory.”

“An avalanche…?”

“The area is a village on the border between Marquis Brussels and His Grace’ territory… It seems that Marquis Brussels’ troops have gone to subjugate the monsters, so they have come here to ask for help.”

“You mean the village was buried?”

The startled Anne asked.
The snowstorm that had been blowing ferociously for the past few days was frightening, but it seemed that last night it had been too much.

It was the middle of winter.
Avalanches occurred because the terrain could no longer hold off the heavy snowfall.