~•{Chapter #12}•~

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..BYZANTINE..

(adj.) Intricately involved, devious or secret.
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"Please tell me that you are alright, Eir."

Serephina was much troubled to look at her enormously dim shine glowing on her lashes concealed amethyst eyes. Her sore sunken lids and the white patched lips sipping her morning tea in a distasteful gesture from the ivory cups answered her queries while her lips lied with a bright grin.

"We aren't expecting you to comfort us, you moron. What did you do in the least not to scare us?" Mordana tossed her words.

"I'm alright. Just that change of place didn't let me sleep. I will be fine in a day or two. Worry less," she fibbed.

"You sure?" Serephina asked in a much-concerned tone.

"Girls. Let her relax and then we may speak about it all. Give her some time," Galene tried to ease them out.

"No, Galene. She is trying to hide something. Maybe she was able to convince you. Yet to us, she is the same terrible liar," Mordana snorted as she took out the resurrection pendant from the folds of her palms.

The raven smoke arising from the pendant made Galene go haywire.

"What did you do with this? Who died? Don't try to hide. Please." Mordana tried her best not to let her frustration seep its pricks in her words.

"It was..." She exhaled a blurting sigh.

"Speak without breaks."

"Mora! Don't threaten her. It's Eir."

"So? Sere, don't try to calm me. I see no reason. In all these lifetimes, we never did anything in solitary even when we couldn't help we stood for each other. Despite being near, she has done it all alone. Should I call it maturity and applaud?"

"She would have reasons. Maybe she could..."

"Sere, wake the hell up. She has abandoned us. Don't forge lacking reas..."

"Kayte, it was." Eir kneaded her clammy palms and vented out her fears.

Her words struck like daggers in their heart. Everyone's eyes danced to the strings of chaos. Before anyone could muster their words, she clarified them.

"She was robbed of her soul by the same spirit that we saw. She told me that she wanted her soul to be in the least pure. Hence, I resurrected her."

"But we did protection chants. We did take every step to save them. Yet how?" Galene spoke the least of her ramming thoughts.

"What if it's a delusion? A stupid trick?" Mordana queried her.

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