774 Simple things- Part 3
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Hearing the voice, Lucy turned in its direction to find a young-looking vampiress sitting on the top of one of the graves in the cetery. The woman had a cigar in her hand that was relaxed as she sat with one leg over the other.
"Oh, you can see ?" asked the young woman, and Lucy's eyes widened on looking at the red lips and red eyes.
"Mada Fraunces?" asked Lucy carefully, and the woman smiled. She looked much younger than she had t in the other world. As if ti had turned back and the woman was in her early thirties.
"I wonder how you are able to see now," humd the woman.
Lucy felt a rush of mories that ca to pass through her mind that she had forgotten when she had returned to the living world. She quickly bowed her head, "Forgive for forgetting the conversation that we had."
"Don't fret about it," responded the woman. "People who enter and leave the in between world, don't rember anything. Not that it happens often. The world is not supposed to exist or to be known by people, because people then? will never not want to enter Heaven, the good souls I an."
Lucy was yet to place the flowers that she had brought for Mada Fraunces grave, and she held it tight in her hands. She rembered how the woman had earlier told her that she often ca here, spending her ti while watching people who visited her. She wondered why she was able to see a dead person unless she was purely imagining it. But then she rembered the words they had exchanged when she had died.
"When did you co here?" asked Lucy. Slowly taking steps towards the woman, who sat on soone's grave while not caring as she smoked.
"A couple of minutes ago. I cannot tell how strange I find it that you fell in love with soone who is purely different compared to you, but at the sa ti, I am glad that he has soone," said Mada Fraunces. "I heard you both are getting married. Have you decided the day?"
Lucy nodded her head, "It is around three weeks from now."
"Wonderful," comnted Mada Fraunces. "You should pick up a beautiful gown and not settle for anything less. And the village does have so excellent tailors. They are good with their hands," she smiled at the end, one corner of her lips raising more than the other.
Rembering Theodore, Lucy turned excited and said, "Theodore will be very happy to see you! He adores you."
"Of course he does, I did save him from trouble a couple of tis. I hope when you two have children, they inherit your nature. They are going to be handful if they turn out to be like him," Mada Fraunces's words had Lucy clear her throat. To have children, they hadn't done that, and at the sa ti, she didn't know if she could bear children.
As fast as her cheeks had turned red, it also dulled down.
Mada Fraunces frowned, hearing this, "You seem to be perfectly well, Lucy. And you were blessed by an angel to recover from your injuries. Even if you weren't able to have children before, you should be fine now. It is not every day an angel cos to help."
Lucy placed her hand on her stomach. Was it possible? Samuel had injured her stomach, near her abdon. Was there still hope?
"Silly girl," said Mada Fraunces.
"Wait here!" said Lucy. "I will be back soon, don't go anywhere!" and Lucy placed the flowers on the nearby graves.
The woman who sat on the grave watched Lucy run towards the cetery's gates, bringing her hand up to drag the smoke.
Lucy knew Theodore would be more than happy to see Mada Fraunces here, in the living world. If she wasn't wrong, she had heard how her grandmother and father had been brought to Devon before they were taken back. She was quick to get on the carriage and reaching the castle. She pulled Theodore away from the castle. When they arrived at the front of the cetery, Lucy pulled Theodore by his hand.
"What happened, Lucy? You haven't told what it is about," said Theodore, who had been left in suspense, not knowing what Lucy was up to.
Lucy dragged Theodore towards Mada Fraunces gravestone before looking around back and forth, searching for Mada Fraunces, but it looked like she had disappeared.
"Lucy?"
Theodore had been talking to the minister when Lucy had co to drag him from the corridor. He heard her whisper, "She was right here. She must have left."
"Whom are you speaking about?" asked Theodore, his eyes sweeping across the empty cetery as it was just them in there.
Lucy bit her lip before turning to look at him, "Mada Fraunces."
Hearing the na, Theodore's eyebrows furrowed. If a human heard this, one would tell that she was imagining things.
And Theodore was no regular person, "Did you speak to her?"
Lucy nodded her head, "I t her before. Before returning back to life. I forgot we had t earlier and today was the second ti we t. I asked her to stay, but I don't know where she went," she pursed her lips.
Theodore wondered what that was about. He knew Mada Fraunces was dead for quite so ti now. After spending so more minutes in the cetery, he said, "Maybe she went sowhere. We can return here tomorrow at this ti and see if we can et her."
Before they left the place, Theodore gave one last look to see if he could see the woman, his eyes on Mada Fraunces grave before leaving the place with Lucy, to head back to the castle.
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