Taming Death

A mothers love

Orion lowers herself into Theo's embrace. Locking his arms around. "I'm so sorry Rion. I'm so f*cking sorry."

She just looked over at her brother lying dead on the floor falling to her knees she weeps.

Orion spent the next few days isolated in her room. Anyone who came to her door was met with the same fate. A dagger at the door frame. Marcy was even struggling to get entrance. Orion's food was left on a tray at her door. She was beside herself, how could she be so powerful and strong and not be able to save her brother? What was the point of all this stuff if she can't save the people she loves?

She didn't want anyone to see her in such a weakened state. She felt erratic, she still hadn't showered from her wedding night, blood still smeared on her face and in her hair.

She was absolutely distraught over her brother.

Sera had enough of Orions bullshit lack thereof coping skills.

"That's enough, get out of bed and quit putting holes in your wall" she said ducking the dagger that flew over her head.

This wasn't the first time she's had to pull her best friend out of a hole like this, but this one was by far the worst she's ever seen. Sera's heart ached too for losing Emmery. But Orion and him we close, she lost so much in one person losing him. He was home to her. Sera saw the state her best friend was in and was utterly appalled.

"Look at you, you're disgusting, you need a shower." Sera plugged her nose. Orion's room smelled terrible.

"Get out" Orion growled.

"No you get up" Sera matching Orions stubbornness.

"As much as you want to quit and throw in the towel. You can't." Sera closing in on the wild out of control Orion.

Orion growled a low an deep growl.

"Are you kidding me? Did you really just growl at me like a freaking mad dog?" Sera was over her best friend's theatrics.

"Theo isn't here right now, it's up me to pull you out of this funk. So I'm the best you got for now"

"He was taken from me!" Orion screamed.

"Yeah and you made the guy who took him from you eat his own heart..."

***

Shit. I really did make him eat his own heart. I can't believe I did that. In front of an entire room of people, who just watched me get married.

Murder on my wedding night, I don't think that's a good sign...

Since that night I could feel a change in myself. Something had happened and it brought me to a place where I connected with the Netherworld now. Where I could feel its presence like it was a being all it's own. It was me but it also wasn't me. It was like a version of me in its purest form. Raw unadulterated instinct. The power that coursed through me was one of pure impulse. That if I didn't tread lightly, I
could drown the world in shadows. Realizing this, was one of the reasons I locked myself away. It wasn't just losing my
brother. It's what losing him also did to me. It
turned me into a monster. Something capable of doing monstrous acts. That's not who I am, or at least, who I was...

I needed Theo. His presence brought me
peace. Without him my entire being was restless. The energy constantly humming in my body, it was like energy had a mind of its own and it hated the fact Theo was away. It felt unbalanced and in return made me feel unbalanced. My whole
everything was out of sorts.

I couldn't explain this to Sera. She couldn't understand how afraid I was of myself now, knowing I'm capable of ripping a man's heart from his chest and making him eat it.