Rosie's Games

Chapter 348: The New Dorothy

The Lux Estate

"How is she?" Victoria asked one of the maids who had been standing outside of Dorothy's room. She glanced at the plate in the maid's hand.

Clearly, Dorothy did not eat her food or anything for that matter.

It had been two days since she completely stopped eating and just spent her time kneeling in front of those candles.

Victoria met Jeames's eyes. He had been standing by the door without saying a word.

Then Victoria walked inside the room.

Almost immediately the smell of something burning assaulted her senses. She frowned.

"What Dorothy?" she looked at the woman kneeling, muttering words that she could not understand. "Dorothy?"

"Someone! Jeames go ahead and call the physician and the knights!"

This time, Jeames followed her orders. He disappeared and came back with the knights.

"Take her to bathe" Victoria said.

"No!" Dorothy's voice sounded so low it almost sounded as if it was the voice of a man. "Do not dare touch me!"

"Dorothy, it had been days since you clean yourself. It had been days since you took a bath. What are you thinking?"

"I said, do not touch me!"

"Dorothy " Tears pooled in Victoria's eyes as she saw her daughter like this. Where did it all go wrong? Dorothy had been so good in the past few weeks.

Then out of nowhere, she just started acting like this.

She started acting as if she was a different person!

Instead of going out, she had been staying in her room, kneeling, and praying to the Goddess. She had to have stopped bathing a long time ago. Now, she chose to stop eating. The only thing keeping her alive should be the water that

"I said DO NOT TOUCH ME!"

"Madam, she is very strong" one of the knights said.

"Isn't that why I asked you to come? Bring her to the bathroom!"

While Dorothy was stronger than most women, she was easily subdued by four adult men.

"NO!" she continued shrieking. "Let me go! I said"

Suddenly, she started shaking.

"What is put her down. Put her down!" Victoria spoke in a panic. Seeing her daughter like this was very painful.

When the Knights put Dorothy's body on the floor, Victoria expected the shaking to stop. It did not.

Instead, Dorothy started convulsing.

Dorothy's body began to jerk and spasm uncontrollably. Her muscles tensed and released with a violent force, causing her limbs to flail about erratically.

Victoria used her hands to cover her mouth, tears streaming down her cheek. She could not help but scream when Dorothy's eyes started rolling back in her head.

Dorothy's mouth opened wide as she let out a blood- curdling scream.

"Someone" Victoria yelled. "Someone help her!"

For a few seconds, everyone inside the room could not move as they watched her convulse.

Then she stopped moving.

Her eyes closed.

Her breathing turned slower, calmer.

"D Dorothy?" Victoria called out. Seeing that she was still breathing, Victoria let out a sigh of relief. She then approached her daughter.

"Mother?" Dorothy's eyes opened. She stared at Victoria who was kneeling next to her before she got up and calmly looked around. "What is going on?"

"I"

Victoria was not able to complete her words when Dorothy started smelling herself.

"How did I" Dorothy's face turned ugly. "Prepare a bath for me," she looked at the maid. "And food. I need food while bathing."

With that, Dorothy walked towards the bathroom without looking at other people.

While inside the bathroom, she examined her appearance and smiled at her reflection.

"You really did not give up," she spoke, her voice much calmer than her voice earlier. "Did you really think you could remove me from your body just by starving yourself to death and praying to your dead Goddess?"

She scoffed. "Silly child." Dorothy touched her still-pale face. "Do not worry. I will take care of this body. This body is mine now."

The sound of the maids moving about behind her made her stop talking. She continued staring at her face as if she was mesmerized by her own appearance.

Who wouldn't be?

Dorothy had beautiful white hair and a gentle-looking face that could ensnare any man that she wanted.

A beautiful smile appeared on her face.

Not long after, she took a bath while eating her fill. Then she instructed the maids to clean her room, remove all the candles, and everything else, even the bed.

How could she sleep when even the bed smelled like burnt objects? She always hated the smell of candles!

"You asked them to get a new bed?" Victoria asked her. They are now having tea in the maze-like garden. Behind Dorothy was Jeames, who had been staring at her like she was his prized possession.

While Dorothy hated this kind of obsessive gaze, she welcomed the eyes of the handsome young man with a gentle smile.

"I did not like the smell of candles," Dorothy explained.

"Why not move to a different room?"

"No. That room is alright. I do not need anything else."

Victoria sighed.

"The Prince had been asking for your audience. Are you going to meet him?"

"When I feel better."

"Dorothy"

"It will not happen again," Dorothy said. "I I was aware that what I did was very frightening but it was only because I wanted to help father and grandfather. I asked the Goddess for some guidance, but she told me not to intervene. The tide was something that was caused by a human. She wanted the humans to suffer its consequences."

"Luckily, the tide has ended."

"Huh?" Dorothy paused. She placed her tea cup on the wooden table before she asked. "What do you mean?"

"You have been busy praying. I wanted to tell you about the tide the other day when it ended."

"How?"

"Rumors say it was because of the Duke of Wugari. Your father has refused to acknowledge it though."

"The Duke of Wugari?" Dorothy frowned. For a few seconds, she said nothing. Then her eyes lit up. "Do you think he is still in Aster?"

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Eve's Gambit is already out! I am so excited about that novel. Chapter 1 will also show some connections to Rosie's Games but you can separately read it. Thanks!