We we're moving steadily , going further down.
Silence seemed to stretch between all of us now. No one was in the mood no more. The dark was getting to them slower than i expected, but it still got to their heads.
I think the fact that nothing happened yet put all of us even further on edge.
I was truly surprised no one lost their cool yet . It was the worst feeling , knowing something is coming your way , but unable to do anything about it.
So we walked onwards and we waited for the other shoe to drop.
Matheo never left my side , his hand coiled around mine , but he too seemed to loose his humour the further we went.
- Butch light a flare. I said despite hating the idea of the light. We had very few of them left and we were going to need them forward.
They needed it now however. Too ease their nerves a bit .
Butch cracked it and bright red light exploded in my vision making me shield my eyes .
The tunnel ahead illuminated showing and empty terrain of jagged rock and stalagmites ceilings.
Things i have been looking at for hours , but they haven't.
I hoped it helped.
- Carnage can we talk ? Cez said coming into a step beside us and looked uncomfortably to Matheo.
He scanned her like a threat before looking at me. I nodded at him and only then he released my hand and moved backwards towards Hermione and Butch , giving us some privacy.
- I wanted to give you this back. She said and extended my knife back to me , i had completely forgotten about it.
- Keep it. You will need it and you have no weapons. I replied and pushed her hand back.
- Why did help me or Hermione? You could have easily ditched us behind for the wolves. She questioned making me pause to look at her.
- You can get out freely unlike us , you should have a chance too in my eyes. I replied and meant it , she frowned looking behind us, before turning those grey eyes to me.
- I don't think i am meant to get out.. there is nothing good waiting for me out there either. Cez almost whispered and her face changed to sadness. It didn't stood well for the brave woman i saw so far.
- What did you do that they sent you down here? I questioned and she frowned her jaw clenching.
- I killed a man. She whispered out and it made me look at her , eyes dead ahead , impassive body language.
Truth.
- Why did you kill him? I questioned and anger flashed in those gray eyes .
- It's always been me and my sister , since we were very young. The wizard family that brought us up were nice people , took care of us . They weren't rich, middle class at best , so we grew up in the lower areas in London.
My sister she was smart , kind , the perfect child . She gad a chance to get away , make a life for herself. After we graduated she went to work in the ministry . It was her dream to do so , she wanted to change things for the better.
I however never felt like I belonged here , or anywhere. I had no drive as she did towards a higher goal , but i made sure she could achieve hers.
I supported us after we moved out. While she got her qualifications, many as they were , because in their eyes she was never good enough.
She made it though, eventually and i have never seen her happier. Made my worries just... fly away.
She started working for a man in the department of magical negotions.
She was good at... understanding people , knowing how they worked, so it didn't take her long to be noticed.
Over time she came back home less and less. Always away at some meeting somewhere and when she did come back she was never the same.
She refused to discuss what happened with me and i never wanted to push , but i started digging around.
The things i found.. I don't want to voice out loud , but turns out my sister got dragged in with the wrong people and way over her head .
That man dealt with more than negotiations behind the curtains , ordeals for the ministry. Things i hope never to see the light of day and she was by his side negotiating.
Turns her abilities didn't help, they just dug her a hole she can't get out of .
And the man kept digging.
One night she came back in a horrendous state. Her mind had been wiped and poorly, leaving irrevocable damage behind .
I still remember her heart, so frantic of fear it rattled her ribcage.
I couldn't help her.. I tried.. so i sent her away to an institute for healing hoping for the best.
I found out what he did , not why unfortunately , but it didn't matter to me.
So one night i waited for him.
I wanted to hurt him like he did to her.
But i failed.
I killed one of his bodyguards instead, before they incapacitated me.
I couldn't get to him.. i failed.
He offered me a deal then, same as hers .
Servitude without question or end.
I declined.
Next thing i know I was standing in trial and sentenced to years in Azkaban.
Then i was here.
Cez whispered out the story, her steps steady, but her face betrayed all of her emotions.
