Diabolic Lover

Chapter 50

 "Why won't you ever tell me where we are going?" Lucille whined as they trudged through a forest, one very similar to the rainforests in her realm. The only telling sign that he hadn't transported them to a rainforest in her realm was the weird birds and creatures she caught glimpses of lurking in the trees. Some of them looked scary, like the panther-like creature she spotted on the branch of a tree. It was pitch black with grey smoke rolling off of it and it stared down at them with glowing red eyes like a harbinger of death.

But he'd assured her that the creatures, no matter how scary they may look, were more afraid of her than she was of them.

"Surprises are fun, Lucille." He said, glancing back at her with a grin. "Isn't it so much more satisfying when we arrive at our destination and you get to take in every detail of where we will be staying, all at once."

"I mean, I guess. But everytime? What if I didn't like where we end up?"

"I don't think we will have to worry about that, I know you'll love where we are going."

"Well, I don't love it right now. Why do we have to walk to wherever we are going? Why couldn't you have just transported us to the place." She panted.

"Because this place is special. No one can transport in or out, you have to walk. It's akin to humans going on a trip without their technology. It's the place to go if you truly want to get away."

"I see. So in other words we are hiding from Pharzuph...?"

"Not necessarily. We could use a vacation again, I think. I have always enjoyed traveling. But, making it more difficult for Pharzuph to get a hold of me for a few days would certainly be a plus."

"Alright. Well, I do like vacationing, even more so now that I don't have a life bombarded with responsibilities. And we were just at Pharzuph's yesterday, why would he try to get in contact with you anytime soon? What reason could he possibly have?"

Aleron shrugged.

"I don't know why he would need to contact me, but you never know with him. Regardless, contacting us for the next few days will be difficult, especially for anyone who doesn't know where we are."

For some reason she felt as though he was lying, but she simply brushed it off and kept on pushing her way up the mountainside.

"Does anyone know where we are?"

"I left a few servants in charge while I am away, so they know where we are in case they should need me for any reason." He explained.

"Is there really that much going on in the mansion? Enough to where you have to leave some of the servants in charge of things?"

"Of course. It's an enormous place and I employ around 70 servants to take care of it. They need somebody to look up to for guidance and somebody to oversee them, otherwise nothing will get done and the mansion would be a mess when I return."

She nodded. She'd seen a lot of servants at the mansion, but she'd never even considered how they worked. Of course they needed a boss to keep them on task. It wasn't all that different from her old job at the hotel. She didn't miss that life one bit.

She let out a breath as she stepped over a small downed tree. There was no real path they seemed to be on, he was just guiding them around various shrubbery growing all over the uneven ground. They were moving uphill gradually, just enough to put her out of breath.

"If this is the places to go for demon realm vacationing then why aren't there any paths to get up to it?" She groaned.

"Because we don't need paths to find it. If you can't find it without a path then you don't need to be there."