Keira and the Satyr's Seduction

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Keira and Malcolm rushed through the forest, still trying to stay on the path.

Keira held Emmett close to her, but she could feel the hags closing in.

Malcolm ushered her to get on his back and he'd carry them to safety.

As the centaur hurried through the trees, they could hear the cackling. They heard the whispers and taunts from the hags as Keira felt herself grow more aggravated with the Dark Realm as each second passed.

In her heart, she hoped the gods were good to her mate, allowing Sebastian to pass on to the Shadow Realm and perhaps they would soon follow.

Malcolm, practically flying over tree roots and down brush, gained momentum as adrenaline took hold.

He'd nothing but hope left now, something he didn't quite know he still had.

Pushing on, the darkness of the forest began to envelop the three as all around them eyes glanced upon their person, taunting their every move.

They couldn't ward off the hags without power and to die in the Dark Realm would leave them gone forever, never to return.

They seemed to run for lifetimes...never really getting anywhere.

Keira kept hold of little Emmett, knowing he's what the hags wanted.

He'd rejuvenate them, bringing them more power than they could ever imagine.

There was a mist billowing around them, a deep, thick mist that slowed Malcolm to a halt.

He reared back in frustration.

They were blinded by it.

"Malcolm.."

The centaur snarled and pressed on through the mist as best as he could.

"We're going to make it somewhere!"

Keira looked around them and back down at Emmett who was smiling up at her.

"There!"

Malcolm pushed through some brush and made it into an open field where he could race to a nearby ravine.

"Hold on!"

Jumping over the ravine, the trio made it to the other side in one piece.

"Malcolm..."

"We're almost there. I found a cave around here a few years ago."

"We,-"

Something pulled at her hair, almost tugging her off of Malcolm.

Emmett cried out and the whole world became silent.

"Fuck.." Malcolm huffed, looking around for safety.

"I won't stop until you're safe! My word! You have my word! I'll die a thousand times over before I let anything happen to you and that baby!"

Cackling and more taunting made Malcolm move faster until he spotted the cave.

"Almost there! We're almost there. They can't get in there! I bound it. I bound it!"

Trusting him, Keira held on.

She could feel the eyes on her and wondered why they didn't attack.

"I don't know what's happening! Why don't they just take him?"

Keira sobbed, her powers nowhere to be found or felt.

Malcolm moved on and stopped in front of the cave before watching a hag rush them.

"No!!!! You will not take my son!!"

All plans had failed. They were all going to die, but maybe Sebastian was safe.

A screech, a howl and the the hags were on them and the trio found themselves in the middle of a battlefield.

Keira picked herself up off the ground and checked Emmett who was still swaddled and untouched.

"What..where?"

She looked to Malcolm who was battling hags and then to Josethe and Kane, Esther and Augustus, Emmanuel and Frances...

Sebastian...

"SEBASTIAN!! SEBASTIAN, WE'RE HOME!!"