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

She even created a shallow depression and diverted

sorted, Eliza turned her attention to the nests of the other

second floor, she relocated all of

poison research, she could summon them back with

was about to check on the herbs in the fields,

still as she watched the spider

received the message from

of mockery tugging at the

thought Gabriel could put on such a nauseatingly convincing act of

health issues are real or just a clever ruse wasis

he has indeed coughed

from being infuriated by one son,

he definitely doesn't look as robust as he used

time she saw him, he even

him, Gabriel could very well be faking it, either