Chapter 6

Translator: Yonnee

So afraid that the person was nonetheless following her, it was not till the solar had disappeared down the mountains ridges that Agnes slowly rose from her seat.

She walked in direction of the home the place her household was, clenching her enamel collectively as she laboriously walked on her injured legs.

With out letting her guard down, she tried to reduce the sounds she made as a lot as attainable.

Fortuitously, the home was peaceable.

Her husband was in deep sleep, and her mother-in-law was sitting in a chair subsequent to the window with a clean face.

As quickly as she confirmed the security of her household, Agnes was relieved.

She sank to the ground.

Hiic, hic

Tears flowed down always from Agness fairly face.

She was in shock due to what occurred so immediately, however in the long run, she returned empty-handed once more at present. The guilt that weighed down on her coronary heart appeared to crush closely on her total physique.

Along with her head on her knees, she cried for a very long time, and her mother-in-law slowly drew near her.

Even when she was blind, she might stroll round the home with relative ease.

Feeling an approaching presence, Agnes slowly raised her head.

Mother

She known as her mother-in-law merely as Mother.

When her mother-in-laws sanity was nonetheless intact, she at all times smiled kindly at Agnes.

Born in a brothel with out realizing who precisely her mother and father had been, Agnes was destined to be taken as a slave as quickly as she turned sixteenas quickly as her physique took the type of a womans body.

It was her mother-in-law who prevented that tragic destiny.

For an inexpensive worth, she struck an settlement with the pimp and introduced the woman house.

Her husband, who was an peculiar peasant at the moment, was additionally prepared to welcome Agnes.

The three of them turned a household, and as quickly as Agnes got here of age, she married her present husband.

They had been the one household she ever had.

Probably the most treasured folks on the earth who she saved desirous to be with, even at the price of demise.

Meals?

This was what her mother-in-law requested as she reached for Agnes.

Then, she smoothed Agness tender cheeks with each fingers.

The wrinkled fingers of the outdated girl and the taut pores and skin of the girl with no single wrinkle had been in stark distinction.

Theres none Im sorry, Mother.

As quickly as she heard Agness reply, her mother-in-laws pupils trembled finely.

Her eyes had been stuffed with sores from an infection, and even her eyelids had a hideous form, as if they’d melted away from burns.

Quickly, she started to go on a wild tantrum, as if she had been possessed by a frenzy.

Y-Y-You! Meals? FOOD!

Mother, settle down Aack!

Her mother-in-laws fingers, which had been caressing Agness face, grabbed her considerable hair directly.

The grip of the frenzied outdated girl was past creativeness.

Agnes screamed, feeling a ache so excruciating that its as if her scalp was being torn off.

However simply as her screams grew louder and louder, so did her mother-in-laws actions turn out to be harsher and harsher.

Finally, she began verbally abusing her daughter-in-law, who she didnt even acknowledge anymore.

Y-Y-Youre simply killing me! Why cant you simply get out of my home?! Youre the depraved witch who ate my good daughter-in-law! You assume I dont know?!

What do you imply, witch, Mother? Im your daughter-in-law! Please dont do that!

Shut up! Youre attempting to eat my son this time, you evil woman! Get out of my home proper now, you demon!

AACK!

Finally, along with her hair nonetheless tightly clasped by the outdated womans grip, her head was crushed inexorably to the ground.

And as her again hit the moldy floor as effectively, its as if her ribs would shatter at any given second.

Agnes closed her eyes tightly. She couldnt breathe.

Already injured badly, she had no energy left to withstand.

Mother, Mother Spare, spare me, please

She merely begged helplessly.

Agnes was powerless, and she or he acted in a method that urged it hadnt simply been a couple of times that she skilled this earlier than.

Its not her mother-in-laws fault that she went mad.

So, its solely pure that she should endure this.

She ought to by no means resent or hate her solely household.

All Agnes wished was for this nightmare to go by shortly.

That evening, Agness mournful sobbing resounded for a very long time all through the quiet home.

* * *

Today, Agnes not often ever slept soundly.

Her sunken eyes and cracked lips had been indicative of her poor well being.

Apart from the horrible malnutrition, the most important trigger started with anxiousness and ended with anxiousness.

This gravely unsettling emotion had nestled itself deep in her coronary heart the second that horseman had seen her hair.

She was always plagued with the thought that the troopers may come and drag her away any time. Its what made her so sleepless.

If she had been to be sincere, she wasnt afraid of being dragged away.

Nevertheless, she was determined about wanting to remain by her familys aspect. She mustnt depart them alone.

This was as a result of they’d each turn out to be half-invalids, and with out her to handle them, they’d not even have the ability to act or preserve their roles as correct human beings.

Sadly, nevertheless, Agness fears quickly proved actual.

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