Song of Loss and Hope

Chapter Seven

A man walked out of the shadows of the door. Painfully reminding me of how the man on the roof stepped out of the shadows. I do not know if I can see shadows any other way other than being a threat and death.

Will I ever not fear the darkness and what is lurking beneath it?

But the man itself had nothing in common with the man of said day.

He was not quite as tall as Silas but still at least a half a head taller than me. His body was full with muscles but not packed like the ones of guardians, who rather look like cabinets than an actual fae being.

The lean yet powerful body was dressed in all black. The shirt being a button up, rips and blood visible. Along, he wore black leather gloves, which were partly shiny, persumengly with the red liquid.

When his face came out of the shadows I could not stop myself from drawing air in. Surprised I inspected his face. He has had a almost empty expression on his face.

Everything about him seemed to be tensed.

His thick black brows were furrowed, his soft looking lips in a straight line and his straight nose unmoving. There were no wrinkles or anything like that on his forehead. No expression, other than his seemingly permanent attentiveness.

His hair was a raven black fluffly looking mess.

The only thing that made me believe that he indeed does have emotions were his almost black eyes and his locked jaw. He was clenching it pretty hard, I thought I even heard his teeth howl.

But it was not only his facial features that made me suck in air. It was also the thick scar going from his left temple to the beginning of his nose. I wondered how he did not lose his eye.

But his eyes both seemed to be working just fine.

They were gazing me up and down. I felt as if he was trying to see everything of me, as if he had to see everything. Maybe he was evaluating if I was to be a threat to him? Breathless I stared at him.

Who was this man, who has to be the prettiest fae I had ever seen? And why did he make me feel other things than the numbness? He should go away I do not need emotions anymore. I just got free of them.

Anger rose again. I don't need emotions and I certainly didn't need to be kept in this room.

"So, see you later than.", I said to no one in paticular and made my move towards the door. Silas went out of the mans way when the door opened and I thought that might be my chance.

When I moved to the door the mysterious man walked to the side, obviously trying to get away from me as fast as possible.

It kinda hurt my feelings, not gonna lie,  but I kept my head high and just hoped to get out of here.

I was almost in the hallway when I felt an invisible force stoping me from doing so. Damn Callum. Why does he betray me when I just saved his life.

I tried to get out of his grip but to no avail. Instead I was now being pulled back in the room. I let out a scream of frustration. Can't they leave me alone?

When I was back in the middle of the room I looked at Callum angrily but when he just shrugged  with a boyish smile on his face, I turned to Solina.
"What do you want from me now?", I asked.

"Well, you understand that we can't just let you go when you just learned our secret."

Fear began to make my stomach turn sick. Will they kill me?