Promises

Elias watched Dray walk out of the room with an indifferent expression. The woman's body was lying on the floor with a pool of blood under it and Elias was cleaning blood from his hand with a cloth. Maybe this boy has more promise than I thought. It's good that he was able to overcome that humanitarian character. He will be shaken up for a few days, but he'll be fine. I need him to get even stronger if he is going to withstand the power he'll be getting soon.

Once Dray was gone, Elias heard someone else enter the room. This time it was a woman that wore a priest's robe. She had a fair face that was blank and emotionless. Her hair was white and she tied it into a bun behind her. She looked at Elias with a look of curiosity before she stared at the dead corpse on the floor. Isn't that their cook?

"Can you perhaps tell me what prompted you to kill our kitchen cook? It is hard to come across people that can cook as well as she can. I heard that you were accusing her of being a demon,"