End of arc I

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A little girl ran through the dark house like a little scared mouse. It was the middle of the night when she barged into her parents' room.

“Daddy, there is a monster under my bed!” Liva shook her father awake.

Liva's father woke up and looked at her daughter with a look full of worries.

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"What?"

"Monster! It ordered me to call my father!"

Livas father calmed down after hearing what was the reason for his daughter's pleas.

“Don’t be silly, sweetie. There are no monsters in Delver Citadel,” father patted his daughter's head, “You are safe here inside the walls. We all are.”

“No! There is a monster! He asked me if I want to die,” Liva insisted.

“Divines! Stop spouting nonsense, Liva!” he got up from his bed and kissed her daughter on the forehead, “Let’s get you back to sleep.”

Father lit up the candle beside his bed, looked at his still-sleeping wife, and kissed her cheek without waking her up. He took his daughter’s hand and they went through the dark corridor to her bedroom together hand in hand.

The door of her daughter's room stood there closed and silent.

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Father pushed it open and it opened up slowly with a long creek disturbing the silence of the night. The door now stood open and Liva's room was before them barely lit by candlelight in her father's arm.

Her bed stood on the far side of the room. Soft animal toys and pillows filled the bed. Toys were laid out on the ground. Liva didn't put them away last evening as her mother ordered her to do.

They crossed the doorframe into her room together and father released his daughter’s hand to step closer to her bed alone. He bravely approached her bed on the other side of the room by himself.

Step by step he moved closer to her bed. His candle now dimly illuminated most of the room leaving only some dark corners untouched by the light.

He stopped right before her bed and looked back at his daughter who was still lingering by the door. He smiled at her, but his daughter didn't smile back. He had never seen her so terrified. Her small arms and legs visibly trembled.

'I will take tomorrow off to play with her. Boss will understand.' he thought to himself.

He pulled up bedsheets with a yank and bent down in fast movement to illuminate the space under her bed.

Light intruded under Liva's bad and fought off darkness residing there. Darkness lost the fight and the underside of his daughter's bed lied before his eyes.

It was empty.

There was no monster under his daughter's bed as he already suspected.

“See? There is no monster here,” father turned to her, “Now come here.”

“Real monsters hide in human hearts,” a man’s voice resounded from the dark corner of the room.

The voice made father freeze in the spot as cold fear clutched his heart.

He slowly turned his head toward the speaker, but he wasn't destined to see the man's face.

A spear pierced his head and father lost his life on the spot.

As the spear retreated back into the darkness father's body fell down like a lifeless doll with its strings cut.

“Ha ha!” silent laughter came from the monster in the dark as father’s body lied there in the middle of his daughter's room.

“Daddy?” Liva watched her father die, but she didn’t understand what was happening.

“Your father died, child,” monster said to her, “Now go wake your mother.”

Cold night fell over the Delver Citadel.