The Witch's Tool (The Witch's Tool #1)

Trapped

Zelenia

What. Is. This. ? Is all I can ask myself because I couldn't wrap my head around it. Once again, I didn't know where I am or what I'm doing here; where ever it is that here is.

Where. Is. This. Coming. From? It, isn't pain. It felt like something witn claws, and I said said claws because it reminded me of something sinister which was exactly how I felt with whatever this something was. Squeezing the air out of me and leaving me breathless, like a fish out of water. Gaping. Struggling. Dying.

WHY. ME? I screamed through the pain but it didn't lessen, instead it went up a notch and I cursed my big mouth and every other part of me.

When I found out that Serena's baby hadn't made it, I lost it. And that's putting it mildly. Whatever happened to me, dropped me back in the same situation as the first time.
Yes I know it wasn't how I was suppose to react, of course I felt stricken and ill with grief but somehow I just couldn't play it cool and act like I wasn't.

My friend, who I loved liked a sister had lost the most precious thing to her and I wasn't there to comfort her, to let her know she wasn't alone. Who knows, maybe it's because of me being here that caused it all. This wasn't a road I wanted to go down, again but somehow my thoughts just would not recede and leave me the hell alone.

They drifted around my mind and the more I wished them away the more they were adamant on staying.

While my mind fought that battle, my body had already lost and surrendered its. But I was still here.

Of course I didn't want to die, who did? But this pain, the agonizing, excruciating, back-breaking pain that had me shaking, crying, cursing and begging for death, was just simply too much.

And if attacking my heart wasn't enough before, now I was feeling it all over. My whole body ached and pained, from my head, to my lungs, to even my skin. It was like a relentless disease hat was hell-bent on killing me, but first It was going to take me through The-World-Of-Pain.

Hell no!

Something slowly drifted across my skin, almost like a veil or those silk curtains I had in my room but I couldn't see what. Because my eyes were snapped shut.

Could I get them open? Yes. But that only caused my eyes to hurt.

And. . . There it was again. This time starting from my chin upwards over my nose and left eye.

My skin prickled and I slowly, ever so slowly opened my eye.

I snapped it shut immediately. But it wasn't because of the pain.

No. It was worse.

Because standing before me was the face I saw every time I glanced into a mirror. My very reflection. Only that my eyes weren't black empty orbs and I did not have the look of a murderous villain.

Zelenia

"How can you possibly be so weak?" The voice sounded like it was that of a taking snake. All hiss. It unnerved me.

"Fraternizing with mere mortals has changed your outcome."

Wha? Please let me be crazy, please let me be crazy!!! Like a chant I repeated it numerous times, maybe that would make it be true. Even though I knew otherwise.

"Crazy?" It repeated, and I felt something beside me. I knew it was her, whatever her was. "Your pain, it's messing with your mind, yes?"

A tear slipped from my eye and I bit my lip to cage the sob that was growing inside my chest.