A night to remember: Series of unfortunate events 1

About five minutes before she walked out from the tree part an ordinary carriage was parked at a secluded place with two men in it,

in fact these men were here long before Asahel walked out and these were none other than the beautiful man and his artist friend

Some hours before sundown they had arrived here to observe of course they had been doing this every sundown for the past three days,

they had also gone to other places in the merchant town but none had a clue regarding the four shop owners and it was almost a month.

It wasn't like they knew someone relating to the issue about the four shop owners would pass by it was just that this was were it started

and no other information has been found so far so they had been monitoring this lonely route that many people had long been avoiding especially those who lived around it

but after getting some clues relating to the child the begger spoke about they decided to find the child first maybe just maybe this child saw something and of course they didn't believe about the child suddenly disappearing

so right now they were here as usual to watch everything and send a servant or two to follow any child they see but not to approach instead to report back to them

And just like Asahel few other children had passed before whom the servants had followed to find their location so after this particular servant had seen were Asahel went to he returned to his master and gave his report

"An inn?"

"Yes Young master"

"That's strange what would a child be doing at an inn by this time and you say you can't tell if it's a boy or a girl"

"Yes Young master thats because the child wrapped it's head and face but maybe the child is sick"

The two looked at each other but could only sigh, this was becoming more difficult to handle

"Alright so far we've seen three children acting suspiciously so you all will go in two and try making a conversation with them and then report to me in the morning"

"Yes Young master"

With that the carriage left and the six men went to complete their task

Back at Asahel side she had reached the inn and was at the counter making inquires when the servant had left to inform his master so right now she was already in her room and dozing off after having a nice well cooked dinner even Fairy worke up and ate as well before going back to sleep

When she has arrived and made her request known the attendant couldn't help but notice the ragged clothing she wore but she felt no one should be treated badly so she answered the child kindly and called a maid to show her to her room

Asahel had requested change of clothes, a bath and food both for tonight and for the morning and she paid complete so the maids had no choice but to do her work even though she felt this child was dirty or sick

Asahel had somehow sensed her emotions but was too tired and sleepy to care so while she slept off those servants came back

About thirty minutes after Asahel slept off those servants returned and asked for rooms as well and luckily or maybe I should say unluckily they had their rooms on both sides of Asahel's room though they didn't know but after checking in they decided to make some inquires about the child and soon they got the location

they were happy to know that the child was just in between them and so they decided to check on her, of course they believed the child wouldn't be asleep since it's barely been an hour since she lodged in and with the information they got about the bath and food she order they believed she should still be awake.

To them this was an important mission and if they could finish it this night then they would be very happy to report to their master but little did they know this would be the worst night of their life

The two of them walked forward and looked at each other then as if with an agreement one of them knocked but no one responded and another knock followed but still no response so they both knocked again and no response

"Do you think the child is asleep it can't be right?"

"Well I don't think so I bet he or she is just playing a prank or maybe it's a theif I mean think about it how did a kid pay for an inn with bath and food and even extra clothes"

"Now that you mentioned it I believe it too but what should we do?"

"What do you mean what should we do it's obvious that we have to barge in besides we're under master's protection"

With that the two bang the door more to justify their actions that they indeed knocked before forcefully entering, finally when they had banged it enough they decided to break it open so they both went back a little and ran straight at the door to force it open

but just then the door opened and with their speed they rammed right into the poor unfortunate child who was sleepy and rubbing her eyes.

There was a loud thud after the falling and as if that wasn't enough the two grown men were on top the child

Yes Asahel was indeed the unfortunate child who had been enjoying her sleep but heard a continuous knocking on the door but she didn't awake believing it was another room but the knocks increased and changed to a banging sound so she woke up grudgingly with sleep in her eyes and opened the door only to be knocked down

Finally the men got their senses back and rose up from the child

"Dam'it why did the door open at the last second"

"Beats me I'm just as surprised as you are"

Asahel who was still on the floor felt annoyed because these two had forgotten she had broken their fall and gotten more injured still no one was helping her up

Finally the two men looked at the child who was slowly standing up that was then they remembered why they wanted to open the door in the first place

"Hey kid where are your parents?"

Asahel was slowly lossing her composure, her body had been rammed into and it ached but still those men couldn't even offer a tiny bit of remorse for their action especially now she was receiving pain

"Didn't you hear him where are your parents?"

While saying that one of the servants looked into inside the room and it had a single bed so which means no one was around

"I knew it there's no way a kid like this could afford a place with food and clothes without being a theif"

Asahel's face was beginning to get extremely cold but still those two didn't notice

After talking within themselves for a while they decided to report their findings simply because the kid refused to talk and they could just hold the kid while the other make the report,

so the first servant left and walked down the stairs while his companion stayed behind and continued spouting nonsense towards the kid

but it didn't take even ten seconds when a scream and a loud thud came from the stairs the second servant was surprised because his companion just went that direction so he rushed to check only to see his companion in a miserable state