18. Adam and the Women in the Hood

The five women reappeared at the front of a temple and Adam and his men appeared behind them also at the front of the temple.

At this moment it was still dark. Verily, the disappearance and the sudden appearance of a thing was not as fun-filled as it would have seemed. How Adam and his men felt while they disappeared by the spell of the witches along with the witches was like they had been thrown from the firmament of the sky beneath to earth. It was what they hoped never to feel again.

This was why immediately as they appeared, they were gasping for air as if they had been restricted from airflow.

But the five women before them had not been exhausted in any fashion. They stood upright at their front and beheld the temple before they shall go into it.

"Where are we?" Adam asked seeing that the women at their front had neither spoken to them nor turned to look at them. But at the hearing of the words of Adam, they turned and pulled down their hood.

They were indeed the ones that can be regarded as beautiful. All the hair of all five of them was mercury-red and it tumbled over their shoulders. Their eyes were dotted with a soft blue iris and their lips revealed such pink tenderness.

They had a bubble outlook and such balanced feet on the face of the earth. But their garment had not complemented their faces because the garment looked gothic in a rebellious way.

"You are at the temple of livee in the crumbled north of Petra." One of the women answered.

Surely, the Vam hunters heard about the temple of Livee which was burnt along with the witches about a very long time ago and it surprises them that another temple which had not looked burnt but certainly did look old was called the temple of livee.

Though the women saw the confusion on the faces of Adam and his men, they had not bothered to explain how it came to be. What they only did at that time was that they went into the temple.

Adam was first to go inside following them because he believed if the women surely had anything against them, they would not have bothered to rescue them from the blood monger who hunted them.

None of the rest of the Vam hunters had done or said anything else, they all followed behind Adam into the temple as they kept wandering their eyes around, capturing every view of the temple.

The instant they were inside, they could tell the temple looked so empty. There was not even a sign that anyone was living in the temple. To them, it looked more like it was deserted.

The temple was decorated with cobwebs and they had not seen anywhere clear of the web to pass except they used their hands to cut each web blocking their entry.

Not only was it filled with cobwebs and giant spiders living in the temple, but it also looked disorganised and dusty in there. Such were the walls, the floor, the stairs and the curtain which were also torn.

But of course, that was only what the women wanted them to see as everything was an illusion.

"Reparo." [repair spell] One of the women said and everything changed anew.

One thing Adam noticed was that each time they were saying these strange languages, they were forging their fingers in the manner that does not any pass meaning to him. The same thing had happened in the woods when all of the women had chorused a language he didn't understand and they all disappeared.

He quickly understood that perhaps if they don't forge their fingers that way, the magic will not work.

When the woman said that word and everything changed at once, there were no longer cobwebs blocking their way nor was the temple looking dark or dusty.

There were fire sticks placed at every corner of the temple. This provided light in the temple and also they heard footsteps rumbling at a particular corner of the temple.

What they now saw was even more enticing and mesmerising to them. It could not have been better said that the Vam hunters were already whispering their admiration for what they saw.

"Is this a temple or a brothel?" Edith joked with the hunter nearest to him pointing to one naked woman he had seen walking down the stairs and not feeling ashamed.

"I am sure, I will always love this place," Frederick gossiped back to Edith.

At this moment they all realised it was no longer five women in the temple with them but their numbers kept increasing as they walked further into the temple.

"Welcome!"

A woman said who happened to come to meet them from above the stairs in the temple and at the moment she met with them, the five women who accompanied them bowed to her and left them with her.

"Come!." The woman showed them the way to the stairs and she led them to climb the stairs to another floor of the temple.

"My name is Kitara, I am the priestess of this temple." She introduced.

"A witch you mean?" Adam interrupted just as she was about to say another word.

"Alas, Adam, we have not brought you here to war with you but of peace." She declared.

But Adam did not recall telling her his name and at the same time, it had not been surprising to him because he knows she must have known his name from her magic.

"That is right Adam." She interrupted Adam's thought.

"I know everything about your past and I can also hear your thoughts. Tell your soldiers to leave us." She said at the door of the chamber she was about to open.

"Leave us," He commanded.

Even though they felt reluctant to leave Adam alone with the witch who just confessed she knew everything about their captain, they could not disobey his direct order. They walked back a little bit, looking around and watching Adam with their eagle eyes. Should something funny happen, they will kill every last one of them and leave the temple in a river of blood.