Darkness of the Woods

Chapter 4

Elfrida

Elfrida was pacing her room, going back and forth, back and forth, thinking, worrying, about contacting The Master. I have a feeling I know what he will order me to do, but am I truly worthy to take on this mission? Elfrida thought as she continued pacing. Am I wise enough to do all this and get away with it? Or will I be able to do what he asks but be found out with what I am a part of? I can only hope Goddess Ethel is on my side.

But then she thought of something. What if he's mad at me for not replying to his last letter? I should have replied to his letter. What does he think? Did he move on? Will he believe I am still too young to take on this mission?

Elfrida felt a deep ache in her heart. She stopped pacing. No, I thought scowling at her stupid self, he said he loved me not anyone, ME. He can't get over me that easily. Can he?

Gods, she sounds like an obsessed girlfriend. Send the damn letter, Elfrida!

Okay that's it, she has to send him the message that she was in position. He said to send him a message when she got there, anyways. And it's best if she doesn't keep stalling. He will be mad at her. He will find a way to get back at her if she doesn't write to him soon. Gods now he's sounding like an obsessive boyfriend. Well....yeah no, she's not going to continue on that note.

Elfrida walked over to a small box, laying on the vanity table and opened it. Inside were several stones with a mask painted on them, she set those aside, and two candles, one cream colored, and the other black, both lying on their sides. The cream candle is the normal candle for everyone in Welenta to send messages, but the black candle is considered illegal, simply because when there is a place under a magic seal to protect from threats and to keep all messages that could potentially be from enemies speaking to enemies already inside the protected spot from coming up with a plan. It's like hidden messages being passed into a prison to a prisoner so that they can come up with a way to break out.

That's why the candle is illegal and the other not. Also, the cream candles messages can be tracked by the governments and copied. And when your part of the illegal groups you do not want your messages to be tracked.

Also, the Twelve Kingdoms of Welenta had agreed that the cream candle was safer of all the candles that were created. Since they all had a sort of punishment for using its dark magic. Dark magic now illegal in the Twenty-Nine Kingdoms of Welenta, but it's not illegal in the whole Supernatural World, not in all Nine Nations of the Supernatural World, Elfrida means.

Really the punishment comes in the form of nightmares, the cream being the least scariest and the purple candle being the worst. The nightmares come when you sleep, and you know it's not real, that it's just a nightmare, but you can never wake from them. There are stories of never waking again for using the worst of the candles, the grey ones. Luckily for Elfrida and any other half-vamp, half-were child is that they don't need much sleep, only eight hours per week.

Elfrida placed both on her vanity table then grabbed a pen and red paper. She wrote:

Master, I am here. –E.C.

Elfrida folded it in half and light the black candle saying a few incantations to activate it. Holding the piece of paper over the fire, she let the flame burn it. Now all she has to do was wait for a reply. Elfrida swerved around from the candle, knocking the stones onto the ground. "Shoot." She bent down and started picking them up. Once cleaned up she had noticed that she missed one, but instead of putting it with the others inside the box, she placed it on her vanity. Elfrida then, with nothing better to do, sat down on the day bed and read a book she had started yesterday.

There was still one more box, really more like a small trunk. The trunk was dark and wooden with intricate designs on all four sides, including on the inside if you opened it, not only that but it looked like it could be from the Victorian age, or that it should be in a museum collecting dust. In it are things Elfrida would rather keep hidden from everyone, especially from her sisters.

Grabbing it, Elfrida went to her wardrobe and stretched up to place the trunk on top of the wardrobe, to hidden from any eye looking over there, unless you already knew it was there. Just when she finished putting it down, the flame of the black candle flared up and a piece of paper came out of it. It was from Him. Elfrida hurried over to it and read it:

Finally, it's been too long since I saw you last, my darling.

And if all goes well, we will be together again, soon.

You know what to do.

Take over as leader, and get started.

DO NOT FAIL

-The Master

Elfrida grabbed the candle, walked over to the wardrobe, and carefully placed it into one of the small lockable drawers. She then found a ribbon and tied the key onto it making a necklace, and tied it around her smooth thin neck.

She smiled. It's finally time to start everything we have worked for all these years. I have been waiting for this day to come ever since I met Him, my love, my light in the darkness.