Darkness of the Woods

Chapter 7

Elfrida

    "Well, what are you doing here?" Elfrida said crossing her arms and glaring right back at him, not flinching one bit. "It looks to me that you're having some sort of meeting. Am I right?"

    The guy had bright red hair, freckles on his face, and intimidatingly tall. The guy asks accusatively, "And why would you care?"

    "I would care if you're the Of The Woods group. Now are you?"

    "H...h...how did you k...know?" asked one of the girls with dark hair and blue eyes. She looked scared.

    "Shut up, Mia." Said the now irritated red head boy, whom she will learn is James. "Why do you want to know?"

    "Oh, don't be mean to...Mia is it?" Elfrida said, smiling encouragingly to Mia, who had winced at the boy's words. "I want to know because I was sent here by the Master. Since I can only presume that you are, and I highly believe that you are them, I have an order from Him, after all."

    "Oh, really. Show us your mark then." The boy, James, said moving right in her face, threateningly. "Unless you're lying, then we have a problem."

    He crossed his arms.

    Elfrida sighed. She turned around and moved her hair out of the way to show the back of her neck. On the back of her neck was a tattoo of a triangle with a raven and a crow inside. Actually both birds can change their beautiful black feathers to magnificent white feather and alternate where they are. It is very strange, old magic that the Master somehow got his hands on.

    James gasped when he noticed Elfrida's other tattoo, the one that was on her back. "Bu...b...but you can't be one of them." He says this more to himself then to anyone else. "The....they only come whe..en it's top priority." Elfrida turned back around and he salutes, the others following his lead. "We will do as you command, maim."

    She looked around at the room. There were posters on the wall with many encouraging saying on the walls, all words coming from the Master or from one of his followers. And there was a small alter in the middle of the room and mats that circled it. Finally at the far wall there were five dark brown wardrobes, each big enough to fit a person inside.

     Elfrida smiled darkly. "Good. Now, listen closely, I have a job for each and everyone one of you." She stared them all down. "And you have to do it exactly as I say."