The Villainess With No Happy Endings

Chapter Twenty-Three - Paper Airplane

I was sitting on the ground of the balcony connected to the room I was in, the door still wide open behind me. I was looking up at the night sky, it was filled with many stars that seemed to shine brighter due to the reflection from the barrier surrounding this place. I thought back to what Drucilla said to me when I asked her about it....

"Well, you see... In the past, we really didn't want to have any connection with anyone other than ourselves so we made a barrier that only we could open. No one was allowed in and no one was allowed to leave either. We didn't believe anyone on the outside was good enough for us. Of course that changed after the events that made that being but we still keep the barrier up." Drucilla was looking out the window that was in the hallway. She had an unreadable look in her eyes as she looked at the barrier that seemed to stretch and cover everywhere.

"Why is the barrier up if you no longer believe in what you used to think in the past?" It was strange that they still had up that barrier. I would assume it would be taken down after they started to change from their past.

"We did it so no one could try to gain control of the being. If someone did that it could result in many more innocent people getting killed. You see this kingdom of ours still has many enemies, we have no allies. We didn't put anyone in our eyes so that made many people hate us and wish for the destruction of our home. We could never know which one of these enemies will try to gain control of the being that was made by us." Drucilla let out a sigh as she ran a hand through her hair.

"Unlike in the past, we do allow people to leave this place if they want to and do allow people to come in after we made sure that they are not going to do anything harmful to our home. We allow those kidnappers to come into our home and made them think they could actually make a hole in our barrier but that is impossible. Only people who have our blood can get rid of the barrier. But we don't know how to fully get rid of it since it is rather high-level of magic that is always changing whenever someone tries to get rid of it." Drucilla looked at the barrier with a longing look on her face. "...But I do wonder what it would be like once the barrier is finally gone..."

I looked at the barrier for a bit longer and I had the urge to throw something at it. I got up from the ground and headed into the room assigned to me. I looked through the desk in the room and found paper. I folded up the paper on the desk and headed out once I made the paper airplane.

Even though I knew it would be impossible for me to even get close enough to the barrier I got myself ready to throw the plane in the air so it could fly. Once the plane left my hand it flew for a good minute before it started to fall straight down. I didn't care when this happened since I knew it wouldn't even get close to the barrier.

I went to turn around and head back into my room but stopped when something hit the back of my head. Turning around quickly I saw the paper airplane that I threw back on the ground. I walked over to it with cautious movement and picked it up. I noticed there was something written on the inside of the plane so I opened it.

"Who are you?" There was neat writing on the paper that also had a drawing of a fox tilting its head in a questioning manner. I walked over and looked over the balcony. I made eye contact with a person who was standing beneath my room.

I couldn't see their appearance clearly since they were wearing a cloak on their body, I couldn't even make out their gender either. I could tell that they may be around my age or maybe older. The only thing I could make out was their silver eyes... I couldn't help but get drawn to them.

"I should be asking you that." I wrote that on the airplane and threw it in their direction. The stranger jumped up into the air and caught the plane before it fell to the ground. The stranger tilts their head before quickly writing something on the paper before sending it back to me.