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No eyes and no nose. The mouth seemed to have replaced his eyes and one of his ears was missing. Emily knew this could not be His Grace.

Or was he?

Emily, filled with fright and confusion, slowly backed away from the gaunt man standing in front of her. The mouth of the man's face twitched until it stopped in an O shape, one that Emily assumed meant that he was smiling.

"You look scared, my love," Edward said with a chuckle as he slowly approached retreating Emily. "Why do you fear so? Is it my face?" The man suddenly stopped and the mouth twitched. "Do I scare you?"

Emily, still in the state of shock, mumbled a few words but all that came out of her mouth were incoherent. Even her couldn't understand what she had said.

"You really... you really can't be scared of me, Emily," Edward said with a cough as he began his slow approach to Emily. "You really can't be scared of me and you really shouldn't."

Emily kept on walking backwards until she backed the window in her room. Cold air from