Revenge

Night

We left Astrea, the glowing once welcoming city now leering with moving shadows and sharp toothed faces. It wasn't safe anymore. We moved in silence through the night, not straying from the moon lit dirt road, our backs facing a once beautiful city shrouded in darkness and blood. We took a break as the moon was far above our heads, Blaike started a fire to keep the shadows away and we pressed to it, almost on top of the fire itself. The night was freezing and we had no where to go, the warmth of the fire and each other the only thing keeping us from freezing.

"You two can sleep, I will take watch" Cians subdued voice was welcomed relief from the deathly silence

"Ok, we can take turns" Blaike offered futilely

"No" Cian gave an immediate answer, his once lively and bright child like eyes now solemn and dim. "I won't be sleeping tonight so I can handle it. I want to pay my respects" He swallowed the lump growing in his throat and spoke with quivering lips and a shaky voice "to the dead... with a vigil." His knuckles were stark white from his clenched fists.

Blaike let out a small sigh that I saw as a sign of defeat "I'm sorry... Thanks man" He received a small nod from Cian who stayed leaning against a tree just in the fires warm glow.

I laid down on the hard grainy ground and thought about innumerable silly simple things like how cars and phones and magic worked until I finally drifted into sleep.

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Darkness surrounded like a blanket. The bugs blaring, I could hear my heart pounding in my ears as my blood rushed in my veins. Where was I? Where were they? "Blaike! Cian?" within seconds the scenery changes, I look around to see Blaike "Blaike!" I laugh happily and run to him. He turns around and I stop cold, fear rushing into my chest like electricity. His eyes were completely black, teeth sharp with a sunken face. I stumbled back and turned.

"Time for you to die, Ar cheann de na solais!" The woman talking had the same voice as the one I heard on the phone, wearing all leather with deep crimson eyes and a half shaved head of dark blonde hair, sharp teeth, soft creamy pale skin, pointy ears. Her deep red lips curved into a cruel smile. She was stunning, deathly beautiful, the air around her practically crackling with energy. "KILL HER" The voice like velvet boomed and in a matter of seconds there was a scream, pain searing through my body like I was being torn into millions of tiny pieces. Again the scenery changes and I am on my knees, I look around and the ground is covered in bloods, in a daze I looked down at my hands and I heard a scream, was it my own? Blood painted my hands and my gut twisted as I threw up, the sickening rusty warm acrid smell making me sick to my stomach. Whirling in crimson the scene changed once more, dizzying. I looked around to see cian smile at me "Never lose your light" his smile suddenly turned cruel, his hair grew longer and soon it was that woman again "Let me take it from you" pain suddenly shot through me and I let out a gurgled gasp, feeling prickling liquid burning in my throat. Slowly I looked down and saw her hand through my chest, holding my heart. The pain making the world dark and I couldn't breath, it felt like a rope tightening on my throat as I could feel blood pouring out of my mouth, prickling and burning as I struggled to breathe. I couldn't breathe, the darkness was taking over my vision, as if in slow motion I watched as she pulled my heart from my chest and crushed it in her hand, blood rolling down her arm.

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"LILJA!" I woke up with a strangled gasp and saw Blaike staring down at me. "Are you ok? God you scared me!"

My eyes were stinging and I could feel sticky tear tracks on my face. "What happened?"

"You must've been having a bad dream, you suddenly started gasping and crying and convulsing, I thought you were in danger." He looked so relieved, his breathing heavy like he had been terrified. I broke into a smile, new tears streaming down my cheeks in a relief. I was alive, it was just a dream.

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