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Waking up from a nightmare several hours before dawn, Belle fetched a drink of water. 

She paused in front of her kitchen's window when she noticed a lit lantern in front of her mansion's garden. Her butler stood there, shovel in hand. This was no hour to be gardening. 

Curious, she made her way outside, but when she had gotten close enough to see a large and hollow pit next to her eternally-stoic and polite butler, she saw him pick up a rotten body. 

A DEAD BODY!

Her eyes widened fearfully when she saw her handsome butler drop the rotting body into the fresh hole. She asked in horror, "What are you doing?!" 

Surprised to see his young miss awake at this hour, he stared at her with the same expression he had been keeping up for all these years. He had made sure she was asleep before coming here.

"Gardening."

"And the body?!" she looked at him in disbelief.

"Fertilizer," he answered her before picking up the shovel that was on the ground. Belle was now certain something had possessed her butler. Who gardened dead bodies?!

She then heard him ask her, "Want to help me in planting it, Miss Adams?" he gave her a sweet smile.

Note: If you enjoy a book of comedy with light-hearted romance and a gothic background. This book is for you~

Belle Adams' Butler

Belle tried to leave this land of the dead because she didn't want anyone catching her here. The last time she was here, one of the Hawverts had noticed and come down to the land of the living. She said,

"I am sorry that you had to go through the last eleven years all alone by yourself while I was in the land of the living, but if you are going to blame someone, it should be the scavengers who took a part of the soul and brought you here. I had nothing to do with it. I didn't wish this upon you."

Her reflection stared at her, her face passive before a smile appeared on her face. She started to walk towards Belle, and Belle was quick to step away from this person. When the light from the hanging lantern fell on the girl, Belle noticed how part of her face had no flesh, and it was nothing but bones. Somewhere she shuddered at the thought of what had happened to this person.

Reflection- Part 2