After the coachman disappeared into the forest, Marie and Ines went back inside the carriage.
"I hope it doesn't take long."
"So do I."
Perhaps because they were in the forest, the surroundings felt unusually dark. To reach the convent by the end of the day, the coachman had driven the horses all the way here without resting at all. Who could have known that something so ill-timed would happen?
"But, my lady."
"Hm?"
"Why would the tree be lying there…?"
Looking out the window at the road blocked by the fallen trees, Marie murmured as if to herself.
It was a little strange. If a storm had brought the trees down, the area around them was far too tidy. And yet, thinking that someone had felled them on purpose to block the road, as Uncle had said, there was no reason at all for anyone to do…
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