Of Wings And Claws

CHAPTER 3

Two weeks we sit in a cell hopelessly, while  the day-walker continues to talk in riddles and there isn't any sign of my beloved. I grimace as I sniff  my underarms. I'm in dire need of a shower, fresh clothes and good food. I haven't really been eating all the food that Mikael gave us. Sometimes my depression won't let me.

Emily lays on her back with her hands behind her head humming.  I knew the song she was humming to and I join her. I never knew where I learnt the tune because the song had no words, or it might happen that I didn't know the words to it. Suddenly a sharp pain stabs my lower abdomen and I hiss clutching my stomach.  Emily notices my discomfort and she rushes to my side. Her hands hovering all over my body like she was trying to detect the source of the pain. I hiss again when my skin feel like it's burning every where she touches me.

"What is it Mel. What's wrong"

"I don't know, don't touch me..." I try to push her away, my body heating up  really fast and sweat beads forming on my forehead and face.

"It hurts Em, it burns when you touch me" Emily seems like she's trying to remember something and the more she thinks the more her face suddenly  expresses sadness and confusion.
"Melody, I think we calculated the moons wrong again. I think the full moon is today." Her words make me shake my head in denial, this only meant that I have only a few hours to live and if I don't get out and bound with a human, these remaining hours are going to be my greatest nightmare.

I groan as another wave of pain shoot through my body. I feel my body cool down a little as Em leaves my side.

"Hello, Mika please help. Mika!" Emily's voice makes my ears ring and I groan again trying to cover them but it feel like my arms are glued to the floor. They feel paralyzed.

"Hello is somebody there!?. Mika!" The sound of rushed footsteps make their way towards our cell.

"What's going on here, why am I being summoned by the guards at this late hour for disturbance Emily." Mikael sounds annoyed, he probably woken up from the comfort of his luxurious bed. How I wish.

"Please you have to get her out of here, she'll die Mikael please" her voice breaks at the end. 
 
"Emily come down and tell me what's going on, if this is a ploy to get me to open the doors so you too can run then it's not gonna work" he says his tone dismissive.

"No it's not please trust me. When us fairies find our beloved or mate, we are given only a month to complete the whole bonding ritual, if not we die  Mikael, our bodies takes the delay as rejection and then we die Mika, we die. Emily's voice cracks on the last part.

I hear the sound of the lock clicking and footsteps coming towards me. My skin feels like it's on fire again as foreign hands wrap themselves around me and I resist the urge to scream bloody murder. I'm guessing it's Miakel now since it wasn't burning like this when Emily touched me.

"Luna, stay with me." Miakel says, his voice is soothing but his touch makes me want to punch him in the face. I shake my head in attempt to tell him not to touch me but  he never gets the message.

"We have to let her bound with a human Mika or else she'll die."

"I can't do that" he says like Emily just suggested we murder somebody.

"What! Why?"

"Lord Lycidas would kill me, heck he'd even kill me if he knew I was touching her right now."

"Well that damned fool of a Beloved isn't here right now is he? It's the only possible solution Mikael and I swear to goddess Áine if something happens to her  I won't ever forgive you for it!" If I was well I would laugh my heart out, my girl has some nerve to say things like that about Lycidas and I'm positive that if he heard her there'd be hell to pay.