Stabbed

***Melissa's POV***

I stood in front of two ladies. One looked as old as Emilia while the other was as young as I am, though I could tell that she's not as young as I think she is. To worsen it, she's the one carried my child who is now quiet. I wonder if he's doing okay by being silent, or if they used some kind of dark spell to keep him shut.

“I'm here now, please give me back my child.”

The ladies both looked at one another and laughed out hysterically.

“Mother, she's such a naive one. Who would have thought that she'll really come to us so easily.”

“Don't talk like that child. She's a mother, so it's only natural that she would do everything to save her child, and this is one thing we lack.”

“You're right now. And that is why we must break this goddess forsaken curse!”

The moment they mentioned the curse, I was reminded of what Emilia had told me earlier about the curse my grandmother had laid on them.

“The curse, huh? I know about this curse. But then, my child has got nothing