Azriel x OC | Shadows Touch|

A Black Snow

Hey! Long time no see but trust I am back. I took a break again! I just wasn't motivated enough to write and I didn't want to put anything bad out for yall! I came to just check on the book and I see there is a lot more new readers so thank you for reading! If you see spelling mistakes so sorry! The dyslexia yall 😪! Enjoy and remember to vote pls!

I couldn't explain the feeling, it was anger, mixed with regret, sadness. But whatever the feeling was my heart burned. Like flames had burned it till it became ash. The mother above must think of me as a monster as well, for she has sent her wrath, her flames, her hurt to me all my life. As we flew in the dead silence memories of my childhood erupted in my mind.

The nights when my brother would sneak in my room and give me the last of his dinner, the scraps of bread and few sips of soup. I remember the cold nights, the thin clothes. But most of all I remembered my mother, my mother was so beautiful, with long thick black hair. I remember watching her in awe as she sowed dresses or cooked, her beauty making the task more graceful than it truly was. I remember pretending to be as pretty and graceful as her.

That I would grow up with her same thick black hair, I didn't understand I would be like this forever. My mother's cruelty started when I was just a girl, when my father began blaming my mother for my monstrous features. When she would call me names or slap me her beauty seemed to dull. I loved my mother, part of me still does. When I was at the Cabin I would daydream that she would come back. Tell me my father made her do it, and that she would hug me, hug me so tightly in her arms. I have even had dreams that she would show up at the House Of Wind. I realize now that she never would have come back for me.

I don't remember too much after i watched the house burn. The smell of smoke still lingered on my leathers. Az brought us to an inn. Now I found myself sitting on an edge of a bed. Azriel had left the room some time ago. My memory was being fogged, I don't know what had come over me in that moment. I believe I was disappointed with myself.

That I had gone months without thinking about the Cabin, and those who remained in it. After Isidoras death I was somewhat of the main figure helping the other women in the Cabin, even when my own sadness would come over me, I had to put on mask of leadership and keep around the thought of hope. Hope that one day me and the other girls would escape. I was the only powered person left in the cabin so starting an uprising of a sorts to get out was never an option. No one would be there to help me break whatever wards kept us trapped.

A hear the door open and close lighting. I hear Azriels light footsteps walk across the creaky wood. " I got some blankets and wood for the fireplace", he said from behind me. His breathing quick from going up the stairs of the Inn. I looked to the fire place, I saw the little dust that laid on the old burnt wood. Az went over to the fireplace and threw the fresh pieces of wood into the fire making the dust flare up into the air. He then got a match from the mantel above, he light the match then dropped it onto the wood. I watched the flames slowly spread across the pieces of wood. I quickly looked away and at the small window that sat in the middle of the wall, you could see a snow falling from the sky. I heard Az walk back over to the bed and slowly kick off his shoes. Then he crawled more towards me, I felt him slowly place a blanket over my shoulders. I grabbed the corners of the blanket and hugged it to my chest. Az then got off the bed and came over to me.

He kneeled down in front of me and slowly undid my shoes until they were loose enough to slide off. He then got onto his knees to be eye to eye with me. " Iris", he said softly, the moonlight through the window making his adams apple much more apparent. " Iris, this wasn't your fault", he said in a soft a tone. I looked up at him and said " It was", my voice came up rough and scratchy from the long period of me not speaking. " No. It was mine and Rhys we didn't think that he would leave. We had planned to wait till you were more stable, then go back for the others", he explained. I waited a couple seconds before leaping forward and hugging him tightly. His wings flared up due too my sudden movements, he wrapped his arms around me as well. I buried my face in the crook of his neck, he traced his fingers on my back. We sat there like that for a second before Az picked me up, I wrapped my legs around his waist and kept my arms wrapped around him. He moved me to the middle of the bed and took the blanket that was once on my shoulders and layed it over me. He took off his leather shirt but kept the pants on.