Shadows can heal too

The Love of the Dark

'Come to me.... Come to me...'

Those are the voices Bianca kept hearing on her journey to the fold. She tried to talk to heart and shadow to distract herself, but the voice found a way to taunt her. The voice was oddly familiar, it was attracting Bianca closer and closer. She felt as if a magnet is pulling her to the fold, even heart and shadow thought that there is something going on.

Whenever she thought of the fold, she remembered what she lost there. She lost her grisha friends, she lost her people, and most importantly, she lost the one person she loved, and her trust for him. Aleksander never got out of her head, she'd see a faint image of him, stuck in the fold, in her head. She could swear that she heard his agonizing scream, in the middle of nowhere. Her rationality loathed him, but her emotions longed for him.

'How are we here and what magnet is pulling us closer?'

'Have you lost your sense of geography?! Novokribirsk disappeared'

'I never thought we'd get here that fast'

'Neither to be honest'

'We need to brace ourselves, we're going in on foot'

'Aye aye captain' was their reply

Bianca sighed, as much as she was a mess inside, Ravka needed a stable rule, to prevent chaos. With the news going wild, many rebels would form against grisha and the royal bloodline.

'Ready?'

'No,' they both replied in sync, she could swear she heard their terrified voices

'Same, but we have to, besides, we can sit and do nothing when we get back, we just need to stay alive'

'Good idea'

'Very inspirational Bianca'

'I know right'

With one step, darkness engulfed Bianca, she was in the fold, Novokribirst to be exact. Zoya was nowhere to be seen. She had her hands together, sensing the heartbeats of nearby Volcra. She looked at the dead bodies, some turning into volcra, and some are their current meal.

'Ew'

'At first I was like, 'the fold is terrifying' as a joke'

'I don't think it's a joke anymore'

'Definitely'

'SHADOW DID YOU HEAR THAT?'

'HEART DID YOU HEAR THAT?'

'AM I GOING CRAZY OR IS THE FOLD TALKING?'

The same voice was now talking to Bianca, heart, and shadow. How? She doesn't know, but what made her ease was that she didn't sense any volcra.

"Bianca Taylor, how I've waited to talk to you"

"Who are you?" asked Bianca

"You know who created me yet you don't know who I am? I'm Aleksander's shadows, of course"

"What do you want from me? Why have you been whispering in my head? How can I even communicate with you?"

"Too many questions, but I have time. I know you can communicate with your powers, isn't that right heart and shadow?"

"No it's not" heart muttered

"Who told you that?" shadow yawned

"Anyways, I am his companion, but the volcra isn't. He can't communicate with me, he can only use me as a power, you on the other hand, can do what he can't. You can consider me as his soul, and since you are a corpsewitch, your connection with him allows us to communicate at this very moment"