Khoines revenge

Chapter 5

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Leo

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His cheek really hurt.

Like. Incredibly bad - smart. He figured as he stubbornly avoided Khoine as best he could. It had been two days by his count. He wasn't sure - this place being the place of eternal cold, darkness and ice. But he was pretty sure.

His thoughts were shaken by another ice spray. Instinctively my thoughts were 'flame on!' And I flared up the ice into water. Big. Mistake.

Every time I used fire, I heat up too. And when I heat up in this place I get colder due to the magic at work here. I was shaking, obviously. My restrained arms making the frozen chains clink every now and then. I bet my hair and face had frost covering it. Or maybe an attractive icicle of dribble from my nose. But what did I know? I couldn't feel it.

Khoine laughed again as I gagged and choked on the cold. Her cold, honey-like laughter that could be as sweet and it sounded was also cold and vile, like she was. "Little Leo's a little cold, aren't you?" She cooed as if I were a small child. She knelt in front of me and put a long finger under my chin, lifting it up so I had to look at her. I flinched away, it hurt - the ice on my skin leaving a small cuts when I did. She laughed again.

"Dear Leo. This will be soo much fun."

I honestly had no idea what she was talking about, but I had an almost irresistible urge to fireball her. She used the palm of her hand and made me look at her, into her chocolate-brown eyes. Then she touched my forehead with three fingers. One touching down at a time and splaying over it. He mouth was agape as she did what she did in a crazy fashion. Oh gods. She was doing it again - whatever it was.

"Oh Leo. I have made allies and good friends in the past. This certain friend of mine I never thought would be useful until now." Her eyes bore into mine again when something mentally hit me - a memory. I flinched away, but I didn't get far. Vision of Khiones ice palace disappeared and I was transported back over 8 years ago... The one conversation I have tried so hard to, but will never get out of my mind...

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It was black.

My eyes opened to a white roof. I don't know where I am.

I cough as I sit up, a scratchy but warm cotton blanket falls down from covering me. I pat the thin mattress to find my toy. But it's not there.

I look around. I can hear shirts and beeps in the blackness outside, and lights flashing. There are people talking.

I'm inside some kind of vehicle - an ambulance.

"Mummy?"

Someone I didn't notice before who had there back to me turned around. She was a pretty lady. But my mummy's prettier.

"You're awake!" the lady says. "How do you feel?"

Outside beeps more and I can hear water.

"Where's my mummy?" I ask the lady.

The lady's not smiling much now. She looks sad.

"Where's my mummy?" I ask again. I hear someone clear their throat.

There's a man in the ambulance doorway. He's wearing black, he has a gun on his hip and a badge on his chest pocket.

"Hey there fella. how do you feel?" he asks me.

"Where's my mummy?" I ask again.

"What do you remember?" he asks me instead.

Then I think back, and it's horrible.