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The door handle shuddered and the door creaked open

I took a step back, brandishing ain

Bella appeared in the doorway

I supposed she le in the corridor as we passed by my room

Her jaw dropped as she took in the scene

"Miss Rose!" She bustled into the room and locked the door behind her

"What have you done?" "What does it look like?" I snapped

"You killed theaped at the corpses

"Oh, no, no, no

You did a very bad thing, Miss Rose

A very bad thing

If Master finds out about this…" Her voice trailed off as she approached the nearest body and dragged it into the center of the room

She did the sa as she approached a cupboard fixed high up on the wall in the far corner of the room and pulled dohat looked like a ain, knelt down on the ground next to theh their limbs

"We have to hide the trouble" I wasn’t sure what Bella planned to do with these huge pieces, but brandishing an to help her as best as I could

We must have worked for almost an hour until the bodies were chopped up into sh for Bella

We were both coated with blood by the end of it

Bella walked over to a corner of the room and lifted up the lid to a bin

Except, as I approached, I realized that it wasn’t a bin

It was fixed into the floor, and it was some kind of chute

Bella walked back over to the bodies and, filling the cauldron with theed it over to the chute and emptied it into it

She repeated the process until all the pieces were gone and all that was left was a bloody pool on the floor

She walked over to the sink and grabbed a pile of cloths, dabbing down the blood and rinsing the cloths in the sink until the floor was completely clean

Then she cleaned the pot, the knives, dried them, and replaced them

Once she was finished, she stared at me

I pointed to the waste chute

"Won’t soh the waste?" She shook her head

"That goes down to the cooes down there once a year to s are in order

They’ll be rotted before then" She grabbed ht me over to the sink

She washed her hands and face, and then pushed ainst it

"You need to clean yourself" I did h there wasn’t much I could do about the stains on h