Saturday, May 13, 2017

Trustful: Day 12

Word Count: 72,004

Summary of Events:
When tossing down her braid so Hulda could tie her breakfast to it, Rosemarie accidentally hit Hulda on the head, causing Hulda to refuse her food. Wolfgang was still searching for fabric to no avail when he had to hide from Hulda; he decided to follow her and found a second secret doorway that led to a room where he found another dress, on a corpse, whose ghost nearly attacked him, but the eagle successfully battled and defeated. Rosemarie and Wolfgang tested the ladder's length again and determined that they needed at least one more dress' worth of fabric for it to be safe to use. Wolfgang, guided by a note from the Elven-Lord, found Hulda's account of the demise of the woman whose corpse he'd found . . .

Excerpt of the Day:
"After many practises on mine rats to be certain that the extraction would, indeed, be successful, I undertook in finality to secure for mine self the first transferral of the soul of one living being unto the being of another.
It was, therefore, that I took from her body her youthful and vital soul, and sought for it to make entrance unto mine self, that I might have such life as to afford transferring mine soul into her youthful body.
I was not, in all graveness, able to extract mine own soul from mine self, and thus it was that the beautiful young Woman, in all her fair beauty passed, and I am now a woman bearing two souls, which I am wont to hope shall give me a greater and increased life so as to determine for mine self a way in which I shall be able to transfer mine own soul into the body of another, that I might possess the ability to be the Undying Woman.
For such a time as this, I proceed my experimentations upon the rats, and wait for mine self to come upon another opportunity to find for mine self a Woman of youth and beauty so as to transfer mine own soul into her body, and thereby mine self become the Undying Woman.
Closing the book, Wolfgang felt sick. That young woman had been one of his subjects — or, more likely, that of his father, grandfather, or great grandfather; or possibly even from further back generations.
If Hulda had truly managed to do the transfer of souls like she said, then the soul of the woman she'd killed was within her, and it could indeed be possible that she was even older than most Elves ever got as a result.
A sudden thought of extreme sickness and revulsion filled Wolfgang. He flipped open the book to reread the last couple of paragraphs, but found that the text had reverted to its horribly illegible state.
Hulda had written, however, that she wanted to become an Undying Woman by transferring her soul into another young woman — either that, or transferring the young woman's soul into herself — and she had Rosemarie as her captive.
Not to mention, Hulda was nothing short of determined to keep Rosemarie captive, as evidenced by the fact that Rosemarie was shut away in a tower.
All of this led to some pretty solidly conclusive proof that Hulda wanted to transfer her soul into Rosemarie's body, or vice-versa, so that Hulda would be able to use Rosemarie's young body to continue living until she needed a new body and so on for goodness knows how long.
In fact, Hulda might well be trying to live forever and never die, and Rosemarie was slated to be her next victim in that effort."

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