Lights Flicker And Fade : Kol Mikaelson [3]

263: All These Bones In The Closet

a/n: Sorry for any errors this chapter, my laptop crashed every time I tried to do a proper edit with like spell/grammar check so ahhhhh - anyway, lol, remember to comment and vote x
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Bea <3

Freya stared at her early warning system while flipping through a turquoise leather-bound journal from MJ's room. The Traveller Spell that stripped magic. Memorising it. Reciting it like a mantra of hope. At the start of her time in the house, she'd always felt nervous touching anything of MJ's. After Dahlia, Freya knew the importance of having your own things...

Maybe she should have been as invasive as everyone else.

Every time she'd asked, MJ had been happy to share. If she'd been quicker to learn, she might've recognised Ryos's magic – she might have found a way to counter it. She might have everything she ever wanted –

"Do you know why they did The Harvest?"

Freya jumped, spinning to face someone she didn't recognise, hand instantly lifting to attack.

"It wasn't their original plan."

"Who are you are?"

"To most?"

The young woman smiled.

"I'm the thing they are scared to say."

"You're a spirit," Freya cut her off, "Bold to come here – "

"Did you think her protections would keep us out?"

Her head tilted to the window.

"It has certainly worked on the others..."

Freya lifted her hand again, "Who are you?"

The spirit was young, with black hair, olive skin, and dark eyes so deep that looking at them washed vertigo through Freya's body.

"I won't – "

"Every however many years, they kill four girls."

The spirit droned over her.

"All to trap an ancient power."

Freya's breathing started to pick up.

"Mortal lives were never a permanent fix."

A phrase that steadied her, "Leave my siblings – "

"The alternate path was a siphoner."

The hairs on Freya's neck stood up.

"They killed four because that was all they knew."

For such a young face, the spirit sounded so old...

"When they found a new way that could erase the power?"

Freya's expression faltered, "Are you one of the four?"

She knew only two Harvest girls remained from Davina's ceremony.

"Is that why you're here?"

"Ana Ruiz lied."

A statement instead of an answer.

"Allowing another four to die in place of one."