116 What she went through

"Mother, you are back!" 

"Of course, I am. Where else would I go if not come back to you?" Her mother kissed her small self's forehead. 

On hearing her mother's words, Eve's chest squeezed. Over the years, she had missed her mother, but nobody could fathom how sad she felt now. The ache in her heart multiplied. 

"Mother," Eve called her mother, who was talking to her small self. She took two steps toward her mother, and her mother looked up. Suddenly there was a thud behind Eve that startled her. When she turned around, she caught an unfamiliar man there. 

"Are you looking for something, milady?" the man asked Eve. 

Eve turned to look at her mother, who had disappeared along with her small self. Her eyes fell on the ruined furniture and dust collected in the house, which she had failed to notice earlier. 

The man belonged to Brokengroves town and wondered what this young woman was doing in a broken house like this.