Back rubs worked like magic! Emmelyn was delighted to find out that such a simple thing could relieve pain, in her case, her massive headache.
"Thank you," said Emmelyn after she felt so much better. She then turned around, facing Mars. The man was forced to stop rubbing Emmelyn's back because now her back was in the opposite direction.
Their two pairs of eyes met. Emmelyn cleared her throat and decided to start probing Mars about the details of his curse.
From Mars' story about his sickly childhood and the fact that all his siblings died stillborn or in infancy, Emmelyn couldn't help but worry if what the witch said was true about the curse on the entire Strongmoor family, not just Mars alone.
Then, what would happen to their children? Would they really not be affected by that curse? What if they also died in her womb or if they didn't survive infancy?
