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Amaris' POV
"You need to get up."
Somewhere through the water, voices float to me. At least, it feels as if I am in water. My body is light, rocking with the gentle waves of the sea. I feel nothing, nothing but the sand between my toes and under my fingernails. It feels disturbing, slightly, but the waves are so gentle I don't mind. I feel whispers, hear whispers brush my ears but I don't want to listen. I want to rock with the waves and feel the sand and never move. It's at this moment that I realize I've never been to a beach, not one on earth anyway. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I know that something is happening. Something isn't right, and yet, I dig my fingers into the sand and taste the water.
It tastes of blood.
"Wake up!"
My eyes open then, suddenly. There's grit in the corners, but when I reach to wipe them clean, I see my fingers covered in dark dirt.
"Are you okay?"
"No she's not okay! We need to take her to the hospital."
The twins are talking, back and forth. I can't place who is who, not without seeing their backs. Besides, I can't see much past the grit in my eyes.
"Are you crazy? The hospital isn't even open."
"Well what do we do?! She's barely conscious!"
"Shh," I whisper, clutching my head. Instantly, a sharp pain travels through my face at the sound. What is that? My jaw throbs in reply.
"Sorry. Can you stand?" The twin on my left asks. I know immediately this is Jennifer.
"Where is he?" I ask, standing instead of replying. I sway on my feet, thanking Jennifer as she steadies me.
"Asleep. And he needs to stay like that." Julissa warns, gesturing towards the door that remains closed. I shudder thinking about the horrors of that room, horrors that I can only guess of. I look at the girls then, and wonder if they know. I don't ask, and Jennifer helps me hobble into the room.
Hours later, I guess as I have no way to tell time, the twins sleep in one of the small beds together. Julissa assured me that Jennifer never sleeps in her own bed anyway, so not to be sorry about taking the bed along the wall closest to the door. They don't make a sound, not one huff of breath. The only movement I notice is the twins moving closer and closer in their sleep. I sit with my back to the bed I was given. I find my eyes drawn to the door, time and time again. Every time, Fargon bursts through and I have to blink to draw the terror away. I'd never been so terrified. Before earth, I had spent my days preparing for war. When I arrived, I spent over two decades locked away in a castle, training for a fight I was always meant to be ready for. No one had warned me of the evil of man. No one told me that the war I had to spend my life training for would look like this. That a black haired woman might sell my life for money. Or a wolf would aid in kidnapping innocent people. I realize that my mother had underestimated the darkness that turned her people against her. It is not one person, or even one pack, or one war. It is in the earth, the entire world, is filled with a plague of darkness beyond my naive comprehension. I used to look through the portal mirrors every day.
I guess I never saw the world for what it was. If I had, I might've asked my mother to burn it.
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In the morning, or maybe midday, I sit in the medicine room, organizing dried herbs. None of the herbs are truly useful, like herbs that promote sleep. Or even death. But I don't give up hope, because a place like this would need something to knock a wolf out. Some type of pill or anesthetic.
"Do you need anything, Amaris?" Mindy pokes her head in, waving away a cloud of dust. She wears the same set of scrubs as I, and Alice. Mindy chews on the end of a pen when I don't answer right away, an eyebrow sitting high on her rather large forehead.
"No, thank you." I say, turning back to the shelf. There's about a dozen more to go through, and the sooner I get done, the sooner I can begin to take what I need to get out.
"Sure. Oh, by the way, when you're done in here, I'll need an inventory count. So we know what we have and what we need." Mindy babbles. I notice a line of spit following the pen when I look back. I grimace to myself, separating herbs that were mixed in a jar. I'm not sure of the names of all of them, some I haven't ever seen before. I'll have to ask Alice.
"You got it," I mumble, throwing her a thumbs up.
"So focused!" She gushes, before closing the door and walking away. I can't help but to feel anger towards the woman. I have to remind myself that somehow, Mindy believes that this place is her home. People can be protective, and aggressive regarding home, so I make a mental note not to say anything hostile about the rogues in front of her. I'm almost 100% sure that Mindy reports back to that room full of rogues.
Within the next five hours, I have all the shelves sorted. The rogues had herbs. oils, creams, pills, and jars of things I had never seen before. Some of them smelled familiar, like the faint scent of jasmine, and others burned my nose. A little overwhelmed, I step away from the unfamiliar and snatch up an empty jar. It's almost bigger than the large pockets on the scrubs I wear, but better than nothing, so I walk behind one of the shelves and begin filling the jar with the one herb that could break me out of here. Wolvesbane.
Looking back on this moment, I remember this burning feeling of hope, and anticipation. There's so many ways to use such a deadly plant. I could crush it into the food. Or pound it into a tiny grain, and use the jar like a bomb. I had been so caught in my head. I finally get the chance, that one chance I need to go home. Maybe this had been too easy for fate, that which had never favored me. I am an abomination of nature, after all. Born from the moon, is it that I don't belong on earth? Either way, it had been too easy, because as soon as I walked away from the shelves and tucked the jar into my pocket, Alice slinked into the room. And she wasn't alone.
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Lupi mannari*UNDER SERIOUS EDITING!!! FORMALLY KNOWN AS CHILD OF THE MOON* She is found in the middle of the woods on the night of one of the kingdom's most dreaded storms. She is taken in by a Queen of the name Maribelle and her husband. Together, as they rule...
