The Lady Nun Vows Revenge by Caroline Rowland

The Silent 414

Eliza ducked just in time to mold a spider swinging past her. When she looked up at the second floor, her face twisted into a grimace. The place was covered in massive webs, stretching from corner to comer. "My goodness, how did you all multiply so fast?".

It had only been a few days since she last checked, and now it looked like a full- blown spider nest.

It wasn't that she minded them reproducing, but this was way too much. Even someone who wasn't afraid of spiders would feel their skin crawl at this point.

"No way, this is getting out of hand. You guys need a new place to live," she muttered.

If she let them stay any longer, she might never set foot on the second floor again.

Eliza never wasted time. With a quick thought, she sent all the spiders packing to the area outside the attic.

She stepped outside to survey the surroundings. Apart from a few herb plots and

a small stream, the rest of the area was just flat, endless grassland

"Yeah, no way they're going to like this, she thought, shaking her head

of consideration, Eliza left

farm, she arranged them into a small forest, perfect for the spiders to settle in. She even created a shallow depression and diverted the magical water into it. This should do the trick, she thought. Not only could her venomous spiders thrive here, but with the magical water's daily blessing, there was no chance of any rebellious behavior

Eliza turned her attention to the nests of

on the second floor, she relocated all of them outside the attic

her poison research, she could

to check on the herbs in the fields, a

standing still as she watched

received the message from the

smirk of mockery

thought Gabriel could put on such a nauseatingly

Gabriel's health issues are real or just a clever

coughed

being infuriated by one son, and other

doesn't look

last time she saw him,

could very well be faking it, either for