Maison
I always go hunting a few hours before dawn. That's when most of the creatures are out. I've always used a bow and arrow, I'm not one of those sword types of people. My name is Maison Boerea, I live in a tiny village near the coastline.
I'm a warlock,I was found abandoned in the woods when I was a baby. The people who found me aren't rich but getting by.They took me in and I consider them my family, my goal tonight is to get a deer, they're very scarce, the blood hounds eat them all. There is a loud howl. Blood hounds it is never something else, I've heard that sound so many times.
There is a horse scream of pain. I run hoping I will be there quick enough. I run for about five minutes and find nothing. The blood hound and horse noises has stopped I'm too late I think to myself, just when I'm about to stop looking. I see a pond and on the other side is the biggest horse I've ever seen.
The horse is so black and, if he or she wasn't that big I would have never seen the horse. Its head is propped on something, I approach slowly through the water, the horses head snaps up and is on its feet. "It's okay," I say slowly, the horse is definitely a boy I'm across the pond now standing in front of a very muscular horse. He makes aggressive sounds at me. Its a warning he doesn't want me to go closer. I throw my bow and arrow to the ground.
I look to the side and to my surprise there is a girl. She was flat on the ground looking unconscious, her hair is black and she was wearing a white dress but it was cut open so you could see her knee high boots. She is beautiful. The horse is trying to keep me from her, I look at her again she has three scratches on her cheek and her white dress is seeping with blood. The blood hounds must have bitten her, and suddenly I realize there is dead blood hounds lying around her. God knows how she killed them but there dead and I don't see anybody else who could have killed them.
I take a step forward but the horse is in my way. I swing my bag over my shoulder and took out my apple. I holds it out to him, for a second he does nothing but then takes it. Busy eating the apple I reach out to touch his forehead. The horse jerks his head away and makes an angry sound. I take my hand back slowly OK you don't like that I take out my last apple and give it to him. When I try to pass him again he let's me.
I go down on my knees next to her, she looks about seventeen. The same age as me. Shes badly injured, I could just leave her here I think to myself. No, she'll die, I touch her cheek and I get that feeling. That feeling that tells me she is also a supernatural creature. That's the thing about warlocks we know a supernatural creature by touch, I get off my knees and swoop her up from the ground. The black horse starts to make angry sounds again. I just keep walking I know he will follow, I stop and I hear the horse stop too.
I whistle and throw my head toward the duffel bag. The horse is pretty smart so he'll know what I mean. He just looks in that direction. I realize hes not going to listen to me, I lower her a few inches and pick up the bag. I hold it out to the horse and he takes it. "That wasn't that hard was it?" I ask him and start walking again. After a while the horse starts walking ahead of me "Tobias" the girl mutters every two minute's, and every time she says it the horses ears goes up. That must be his name. We still have about two miles left till the village.
What was I doing? Carrying a girl out of the woods into the village. I was going to be in a lot of trouble, the whole village is still asleep as I walk through it. My hand is full of blood from her dress. I reach our door and knock, Tobias is still behind me I will probably put him in our barn house at the farm not far from here. The door opens and my mother is standing in front of me her blue eyes filled with concern. Seeing the blood she just said "You better come in." I nodded Tobias tried to follow. "Maison put her on the sofa," she said "and take care of the horse." I nod.
At first Tobias refused to go to the barn but i got more apples and he finally agreed, i ran back to our house hoping she is awake. But had found she was not, I don't know why I wanted her to be awake. I wanted to know what she was, she was definitely not human. Maybe she was a warlock, I haven't spoken to another warlock in so long. Most of them fled to the north and it doesnt help that I have to keep it from my family.
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