Arise of the Cheshire Cat

Chapter 6

Luna glanced at Nikita as they drove out from St. Petersburg. She was hard to read but there were a whole host of emotions playing across her face. Then she remembered what she had been told in her numerous studies.

This was where Nikita had been born, this was her home and she had not been here for a long time. Since the end of the last Great War she had heard. She would have asked her about it but the expression on her face warned her off doing so.

They were heading out of the main city and towards Novgorod, where the white rabbit was last known to be living. It was a warm enough day and the soft top sports car made its way through the roads like it was living its own life, despite being away from Russia for a long while the demonologist knew where she was going and Luna let her drive.


Caz got up off her bed and backed against her wall as the strange and yet bizarrely alluring woman moved towards her.

"Who the fuck are you?" She finally managed to say cursing when she realised she had left her sword and her guns in the weapons locker.

"Now Alice, you know I would never harm you, and I will never allow anyone to harm my Alice"

"My name is Caroline" Caz felt her shock subside to annoyance "Not Alice"

"Do you think I care?" The woman purred almost and stood before the annoyed Nottinghamshire woman.

She leant forward her breath tickling Caz's skin causing her to draw a sharp intake of breath.

"When those barbarians took what was not theirs to take and threw you from the walls of that great city that mankind seems intent on always fighting over in the name of a god that I care little for.

When you were broken on the ground your mind, suffering as it did cried out for vengeance"

"I don't remember" Caz snarled. She remembered being brutalised but that was all she remembered.

"They took away the right for you to be a mother and it was I who answered your shattered minds plea for vengeance, not your father, me. Who do you think led your stepbrother and surrogate brother to the men that did that to you?"

Caz shook her head, she had been told years later what Raistlin and Lucian had done. But this....this was all too surreal for her.

"I have looked over you ever since my precious Alice and I am proud of you but you will need my help"

"Why would I need your help?"

"If you want to save your daughter you will"