Taming Death

Her

Orions body glowed a soft violet at first, her eyes flashed turning a bright, violent purple. The shadows in the room started to move and sliding across the floor. The lights flickered and the walls shook a bit. She levitated slightly off the ground. Power surged through her and around her. The room had static in the air making the hair stand up on the back of everyones neck.

"No" she repeated. Shaking her head.

The room went cold.

There was a deafening silence.

Her parents stared intensely as their daughter transformed in front of their eyes. She could see it as her brows frowned at them. The guards in the space across from her put their hands on their sword ready to draw and strike anyone who endangers their wards. This angered something deep inside Orion, turning the glow around her into a thick smoke as it draped with the shadows across the floor. Fear filled the eyes of all the people in the room except one..

And then HE stood up. Something in her recognized him.

"Sit" a voice demanded deep from within Orion.

He didn't sit or move forward.

"Orion you're glowing, I don't understand what's going on, but you need to take a breath and not down before you bring the house down around us." Her father said to her.

"NO. NO. NO." she shouted, Shaking her head rapidly. The room began quaking again. The sound of pictures hitting the wall. Glass hitting the floor.

HE began to move towards her.

Her power reacted differently around this man. Reaching and wavering. Orion rose further off the ground. Shadows swirling under her. Her power starting to recognize HIM the closer he got. Her mother and father exchange nervous glances, they hadn't realized her Necromancy had gotten so, powerful. There was a look on her face that seemed like everything that made Orion, Orion, was gone from her and she was just an empty vessel for power.

HE continued with his approach as if drawn to her. Her eyes glared at him with such intensity, it was ready to burn hole in his face. But he was unfazed. He was in a trance something had basically taken over him he had little control over his body, it practically dragged him over to her.  Just looking at this powerful beautiful woman in front of him. How could this woman, he's never met or seen, hold so much power over him.

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Theo

I was confident about this meeting. I arrived earlier in the day and had time to unpack my things before heading to the meeting with the Serrais Brimmed High King and Queen and inform them of my fathers acceptance of marriage. I didn't want to make an alliance, this way; I don't care to marry some primed, pampered, princess I've never met. I barely knew anything about her. Not a lot of information was known about her, in general. The king and queen kept her away from prying eyes. The only thing anyone really knew was she had looks that could kill and a nasty temper. How could a pampered princess rule in the Sun Elf Clan, someone who couldn't command the respect needed to rule my people. It was bullshit. My father forced this shit on me. I was the only one because my two other brothers were already married.

My people were the closest to this growing black cloud of filth that hung in the distance above the mountains beyond the sea's view. The smell of the rot was getting heavier. More monsters were invading our lands. It was happening more frequently and now in other clan's territories. I had to make this alliance, by what ever means necessary, it didn't matter he didn't want to marry her. The Elders and other clan leaders think that the Sun Elf Clan are the only clans that can keep these pretentious High Elves in check. We didn't want a repeat of the last civil war. And she'd just have to accept our fate, just like me. They would rule the clans of Elysium together as one.