A Court of Heritance and Destiny

Chapter 7 Amaya

She sat there before her, the laughter didn't stop, no it multiplied in the room. Filling the air around her. Amaya squared her shoulders, doing her best to not falter as the laughter attacked her.

"We are leaving." Orion said behind her, taking her arm in his hand. "She is not worth your time." Amaya held her ground, her eyes burned into the female before her.

"I wanted to see you." She spoke up, "I wanted to know how you could do this to me." She pulled her arm free from Orion's grip. "And all I see now is how you used our faith, our beliefs, to manipulate and fuel your revenge plan." Now she turned away, the sand in the room continued to swirl, almost filling up every empty space in the room.

"You are just as much a beast as they are. The Mother has abandoned you, Fate too. You will live a painful life Freya, I have seen it!"

"Freya's life was painful." She looked over her shoulder."But she is at ease now, I am Amaya, and with or without The Mothers guidance I will succeed." Now she walked back, leaving yet another part of her life behind.

For years of her life had she feared repercussions from The Mother, she had lived a lie that Fate decided over her life. That thoughts could hurt her, that all the sickness, all the pain she had felt was something she deserved. Seeing her like that, hearing it all. She closed that door to her life, knowing that she now needed to handle what laid before her.

Orion guided her through the hallways, far from the room, far from the darkness. His touch reminded her that she was here, alive and awake.

"Here..." He showed her inside a room. "I can't believe it." She heard Orion mutter as he closed the door.

"What?" The things that had been said and revealed in that room still felt unreal. Her heart was beating hard and her body slowly collapsed down on a chair in the room.

"You..."

"I can't..." It started to get hard to breathe, the air wasn't enough as she tried to drag it down to her lungs. "I can't..." Panic grew as dots started to fly past her vision.

"Hey!" Orion was there, holding on to her hands. "Look at me..." She did, or at least tried to as his dark eyes held hers. "She can't hurt you here." She sucked in a harsh breath. "You are here, you are safe, you are alive. She can't hurt you." She nodded, doing her best to calm her breathing. Her body collapsed, but Orion caught her at the last moment. Holding her firmly against his body.

"I got you... I got you..."

Slowly she calmed down, landing back in the place he had taken her too. Dark walls of stone, a simple decor in metal and more stone. It was spacious, open. She noted a kitchen area with chairs around a table. The chair she sait in, she realised, was a soft plush sofa, one part to a larger sitting area. And once she looked up, the sun had started to set, making the glass window in the ceiling above her look like a living painting as the sky slowly turned darker.

"Where... where are we?" She asked, fascinated by the home.

"My apartment." Orion confessed. "Ikarad and Etera was in the the Moonstone Palace, and it was too long of a walk for you." Amaya nodded, still looking around. She felt exhausted from that event, her body still trembling as the aftershock passed.

"Thank you..." She swallowed, trying not to sound too tired.

"All for you." He sat down next to her. "Listen, some of the things you just heard are not... They have not told anyone about it." She blinked, not fully understanding what was just said. "Etera and Ikarad, they never fully shared what happened that night. I only figured it out after. Nyx and Azriel know too, but beyond that no one knows, and I hope you can respect that." Amaya nodded, a lot of the things said in that room were a blur right now. Anger, sorrow, fear, and maybe even some resentment.