Chapter 17: I'm sorry

"Once and again there was a woman, that said to me. This woman loved everything very much, loved everything. She loved the land she lived in, loved her house, loved her husband, loved the child she carried in her belly. She just didn't love not being able to do anything, not being able to fulfill the dreams she had lived in her womb for the longest time.

She was young, but she lived in such misery."

Artemisia had lost her hunger, seeing Geon made the fact that she would have to become a cannibal come back so hard that she felt slapstruck. So it just went towards the garden, obviously with a demon occupying the place of her shadow.

"Did you know that in the old day people believed that children came from the stars?" Geon asked as he looked up at the sky as clear as a candle.

"No" Artemísia responded in a tone that meant she wanted to stay in hers, watching the flowers that were born slowly.

She heard the demon sigh loudly, but did not protest her decision. The two continued to