The Dead war.

Chapter Nineteen: The Plan

I walked into the room where we were staying. Mercy threw her stuff and plopped into a chair and grabbed an apple that sat on the bed.

"I could get used to this." She said laughing. I rolled my eyes and put some extra clothes the maids had left for us into a bag for tomorrow. I stopped when she cleared her throat and continued staring into the drawer before She spoke.

"Do you ever wonder where we came from?"

"Not really no, I mean like I said I don't want anything to tie me down. If I know who my family and I have to kill then I don't want to hesitate." I said coldly. She stopped and looked at the ceiling.

"I know, and I feel the exact same but I woke up in the forest and followed you out here. Everyone looks at us strangely. I saw a picture of a man when I snuck into the king's office . I saw him in the place where I awoke. So who is he and what does he have to do with anything." She kept rambling on. Finally I looked over at her and she shut her mouth.

"I don't want to know, I want to do my job and take over Umbris for myself." She looked at me strangely when I spoke those words. 

"You're taking Umbris for yourself. But you're not Royalty." She said, looking at me.

"Does that matter?" I looked at her with my eyes raised. It was a threatening look I didn't even know I had but she clearly saw it.

"No it doesn't matter." She turned away from me and continued looking at the ceiling.

"Why do you really ask?" I turned back to look at her again. She continued to stare at the ceiling. And waited a few seconds before responding.

"I keep seeing glimpses of a baby, of a child and a man, the man I saw in the forest. Almost as if they are calling to me pleading with me." She explained she turned to me with tears in her eyes. "What if she is my baby and I abandoned her." I felt my body tingle like I wanted to feel sorry for her but instead I just stood there calmly and stiff.

I forget you can't feel anything you don't know how I feel." She turned away tears streaming down her face. I leaned against the bed frame and continued to stare at her. Finally I turned around and continued packing my bag and mercy's. After I had finished unplaced the bags by the door and climbed into bed. The sheets were black and silk. The fabric was soft and slippery; it was cool to the touch. I pulled the fabric up around my body and nestled my body into the covers and felt my body sink into the bed.

The dreams had returned, I jerked awake in a room full of people. I stood in front of two people, a woman and a man. They stood there with their crowns on their heads. They were laughing and crying and hugging a woman. When the women turned around I saw my own face, my own reflection staring at me. She smirked and pulled out two daggers from behind her. She dug them into the two people on the throne she smirked and laughed a laugh that shook me to the very bone. The laugh was so evil sounding and so very earth shattering. I looked down to see blood pooling below my feet and I placed my hand on my stomach and pulled my hand away and it was blood red. I snapped my head up to see myself standing a foot away from me with a bloody knife. I tried to scream but no sound escaped my mouth. She leaned into my years and whispered.

"This is your future Phoenix, you will be the most ruthless and even queen Umbris ever knew. Everyone will rue the day you become queen." She laughed that same disgusting laugh and my body shuttered. And then there was that man. That man who I saw in that picture mercy showed me. The prince of Prophis. His eyes held such fear and despair that my heart wrenched inside my body. Suddenly she appeared or I appeared. She stood behind him and grabbed his throat and yanked his head up to look at me. She looked up at me and the look she gave me made my heart stop. And then before my eyes she cut his throat. I screamed and pleaded for her to stop. I watched as he fell to the ground, blood pooling around his body. I felt my heart shatter I didn't know who this man was but seeing him be murders ripped my heart out. I startled awake and when I was sure I was back in my room and mercy was sleeping on the couch across the room I stumbled out of bed and vomited into a trash can. After a half an hour mercy walked over to me and held my hair out of my face.