Lilith had returned to Solam's side, and now she was no longer afraid of anything. No one dared hurt her while she was by Solam's side—of that, Lilith was absolutely certain. Naturally, she no longer needed to fear trouble coming to find her. She knew that if trouble came looking for her, Solam would teach it what real trouble was!
"I didn't see it clearly either." Facing Rist's questioning, Lilith frowned and tried hard to recall before saying, "At the time, I was playing hide-and-seek with Lily and the others. I was hiding behind a clump of trees. Then I saw a black shadow suddenly appear behind that uncle and stab straight through his chest!"
Lily was the daughter of one of Isabella's hired workers. She was a freckled girl two years older than Lilith who loved to smile. Since her name was similar to Lilith's and they were close in age, she had become Lilith's best friend.
Lily's parents both worked for Isabella, so no one had time to watch her during this season. The other children were much the same, and so a group of them ran wild all around the estate. The estate was a place of work, and the hired workers did not allow the children to fool around there, so they could only play outside it.
Only parents on the Shining Plains dared let their children run wild outside like this, because it was simply too safe here. Many commoners went their entire lives without ever seeing a goblin, so children could run about outside without anything happening to them.
Moreover, because there was so much human activity in the area, there was not even a snake in the nearby woods, let alone any real danger. Aside from warning the children not to play in