Somanca ( The Healer)

Chapter Seventeen

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN 🌿

I was finally home. I was not exactly in the village but I was in the forest near the path that led in Tellus.

I couldn't contain the excitement bubbling from within. Havens, I could already image the reaction I'd no doubt get from the villagers and especially from Elder Fera. She would no longer have to worry about my safety and she would be pleased to know I had succeeded in my mission.

" I hope you'll like it here." I said to the Griffin who cooed up at me. " We are home." I smiled looking up through the canopy of the trees to see the blue cloudless sky.

This was for the best and being here would help me heal from the hurt eating up at my heart.

I didn't dare think about her. How quick was she to discard me like useless vegetable peelings. And for that I wouldn't let myself suffer because of her. A lot of people surely wanted to befriend me. I mean I wasn't exactly unlikable.

I frowned at that thought, resisting the urge to pull at my hair in frustration. Whom was I fooling. Of course no one wanted to get within a five feet radius of me. Sometimes I think people only tolerated me because of my gift. But that didn't necessary make me sociable. I was and will remain a freak of nature.

The Griffin nudged at my thigh getting my attention. I sauntered out of the forest, following the path to the village. When I passed the throng of Rivian trees that was when the uneasiness built up in my gut. I was a bit worried when I didn't feel the pulsing protective shield allowing me in.

Just over the old willow tree I began to see the village and my reaction to its disastrous state was instant. The many village houses were burnt to the ground. There wasn't a single building that wasn't destroyed and not a single soul was present in the debris.

I felt around with my powers, hoping, that I'd feel someone still alive but nothing. Heavy tears fell from my eyes landing in the blackened soil

This couldn't be right. This was a nightmare definitely. I would wake up from this and see my village as beautiful is it was when I left. That's it. I forced a smile on my face then I waited for someone to wake me up.

Minutes turned to hours and eventually night blanketed the sky. It was then that I began to realise that I wasn't going to wake up from this. This was the reality in all its agonising glory.

Elder Fera and everyone were gone. Whether they were alive or not I had no way of knowing. I cried out loud to the heavens my heart struck with so much grief I felt I would explode from it. I released a blast of power that whipped haphazardly around me, uprooting trees and chasing the animals away. And I could feel my grief tainting the nature.

I didn't want to feel this way. And I couldn't exactly control how I felt. It was like everyone was disappearing from my life: my mother, elder Fera,Venerus, Eron and Ranthel, Amanti and now this.

" Why, deity Calima, do you let me suffer? Have I not suffered enough?" I hollered to night sky and I sobbed.

I didn't take long when my sobs turned to broken whimpers. I had no more tears to shed. The exhaustion of using so much of my power finally caught up with me as I fell to the ground. What was the point of living if I would never know the sweet feeling of happiness.

Every time I was but a breath away from finding happiness it would be stolen away, just like that. I didn't want to live miserably. I wanted love. I deserved to be loved. And if I wasn't going to find my happiness everyone will suffer the same fate. It was only fair.

I surrendered to clutches of sleep. All I could wish for was that deity Calima would take me away from this. I sent a silent prayer to Calima to relieve me of this pain and another to Somanca, the deity I was named after, to comfort me from this great loss. The world would be just fine without me in it. At least I hoped it would.