Like Wind on a Dry Branch

Like Wind on a Dry Branch

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Like Wind on a Dry Branch

Rietta Tristi was a beautiful woman.

The most special thing was her pupils. Whenever the light shone into them, her eyes shone back with the color of the bright blue sky, sometimes with a blue glass color, making her beauty even more mysterious. Even the flowers and stars would lose their light when Rietta smiled like a fresh spring with her pretty eyes.

heir family was happy. But that was the story of four months ago before her husband passed away.

After Rietta’s husband suddenly died of a mysterious illness, she lost her smile. For a powerless commoner woman, her beauty was more of a curse than a blessing. Even before the scattered flowers at her husband’s funeral had begun to wither, Casarius, the lord of Sevitas where they lived, started to force Rietta to be his concubine.

Rietta had foreseen the lord’s tyranny and harassment. Putting aside the fact that Casarius was old enough to be her father, it had been less than a month since her husband’s death. As Rietta turned a deaf ear to his request, Casarius got into a fuss and took her daughter away.

Her daughter was barely three years old. She was a young daughter who was yet to understand the concept of death, and who kept on asking Rietta for the whereabouts of her father.

Rumors have begun to emerge that Casarius sold Rietta’s daughter to a slave dealer. Poor Rietta was almost out of her mind and accepted that she would become his concubine on the condition that her daughter was returned safely to her.

However, Casarius, who suffered from the plague that had struck the Empire, died without getting Rietta or finding her daughter. But he left behind a nasty will that requested Rietta to be buried alive with him.