The Dark Night of Full Moon (II)

Seraphina sat up on her bed with a start. Her gaze was fixed on the candle as she climbed out of the bed and picked it up. As soon as the candle came closer to her face and she inhaled its aromatic scent, she felt a heavy blanket of sleep enveloping her.

Fighting against the sleep, she blew off the candle and threw it away before hurrying toward the window to pull it open. Because of the drowsiness that was overwhelming her senses, it took her quite some time to succeed in her mission, but as soon as she was able to breathe the air from the outside, she felt better.

It required quite a couple of deep breaths before she was able to return to reality completely. Her mind raced as she tried to understand exactly why she was given a candle laced with sleeping scent and it made her question the entire story of the so-called curse that Mortimer told her and the others.