Taylor - stripes and shadows (lesbian) [on hold]

Chapter 20 (part 2)

What I saw in front of me took me aback, it was the same street I had been walking through when I had first slipped into my memories only this street was in ruins, the buildings left half standing, bricks and glass where strewn across the streets, every where I looked buildings had crumbled and fallen or where they destroyed? After finding out about my demise I never gave a thought as to what this place would be like now, what had happened to my real home, I wandered down the broken streets in what felt like an aimless wander until I came to a set of what must have once been a set of massive doors, what now stood as a crumbling archway and rotting wood, I placed my hand on one of the doors to push it open only to have it topple onto the floor, stepping onto it I carefully made my way into the ruins of what I now knew was the great hall where I had stood looking at the statue, where Kali had kissed me and I had felt loved, I shook the thought from my head and inspected my surroundings, the statues looked like someone had smashed each one apart until there was nothing left but piles of rubble on the floor, I walked further along the length of the hall when I stopped, not every statue had been destroyed, one still stood, the one I had been standing in front of, once again I looked up into it’s face, I felt a presence behind me and spun around, stifling a yelp in the process, stood only a few steps away from me was Lance, he was looking up at the statues face with a lost expression, for the first time I noticed the mark on his wrist, a circle of lightning, unlike my own though it was jet black

“You where bound to me?” I asked in surprise, assuming that the mark was from me

“no, I was bound to your mother” he answered simply, his eyes slipped for a moment to my face then back to the statues “but that was a long time ago, come with me, I want to show you something” he said as he made his way back towards the door I had come through and I followed him out, we wound our way along the broken streets until we stood in front of a temple, all around it stood destruction but the building itself was untouched, like it had been wrapped in a protective blanket from the violence that had destroyed the world around it “this is your temple” Lance said as he climbed the stairs and pushed the heavy wooden doors open, I followed him through them and looked around, it was dark inside but from what I could see it didn’t look like it had been standing empty for years, every where I looked there was light shining off metal surfaces that looked like they had been polished recently, Lance walked over to one of the metal bowls that was suspended from the ceiling and lit the oil inside, the light didn’t cast itself very far so I watched as Lance repeated this action all through out the massive temple and stood in awe as the light slowly revealed the room that was laid out before me, walking over to the wall I ran my hand along the smooth familiar marble before walking towards a statue that stood at the other end of the room, standing in front of it I looked upon the face, it took me a moment to recognize myself in my werecat form, looking down at the statues feet I noticed that there where small tokens laid bout, I reached out and picked one up, it was a gold chain with a small pendent on it, an intricate design of entwined branches and leaves was carved into a circular piece of gold, I placed it back down and scanned over the rest of the tokens, most where the same sort of design as the chains pendant, only one item stood out among the rest, it was a ring made of black and white metals twisting around each other with a circle of diamonds encircling a ruby, I picked it up as Lance joined me in front of the statue “Kali’s engagement ring, you had one just like it except it was rubies around a diamond, Kali wears it on a chain around her neck” he said passingly as he inspected the chain I had picked up first, I was going to throw the ring but thought better and pocketed, out of the corner of my eye I saw Lance smiling at the chain “you used to wear this when you where little, I put it at the foot of your statue when we lost you, like so many other’s that day, I never thought I’d set foot in this place again never mind it being with you” he laughed as he looked over at me “but here we stand, on the edge of a war with an enemy we don’t even know who are controlling powerful creatures that your ex created and we haven’t a clue how to find out who they are or what there next move’s going to be, we’re definitely up shit’s creek without a paddle this time kitten” Lance chuckled as he looked up at the statue “but damn I bet it’s gunna be fun finding out” he said as his chuckle turned into a full blown laugh, before I could help myself I found myself laughing along with him, an idea started forming in my head as we stood there laughing, waiting for our laughter to subside I turned to Lance

“I think I might know how to find out who they are”

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