Girl of Steel and Stone

Chapter 6

I'm so sorry I didn't update Wednesday! But well, school came up.... So, here are the two chapters I owe you. Enjoy, vote and comment!

Meladora above (just imagine her with blue eyes and a bit older)

Chapter six

Someone was pounding on my door. I opened my eyes and closed them immediately again. My head was pounding and the light was too bright.

Pounding again. 'Open up!'

I didn't recognize the voice.

Taking a deep breath I sat up, ignoring the continual pounding inside my skull. My feet touched the soft carpet on the floor.

I couldn't remember being brought here. Someone had probably carried me. I was still wearing the clothes I had worn yesterday, but my socks and shoes were gone.

Grabbing my gun from the table with one hand and a knife with the other I rose. Everything spun for a second, but then I slowly made my way to the door.

Opening the lock, silence finally fell on the other side of the door.

I clicked the safety pin from the gun and held it ready while I put my knife on the stand and opened the door quickly.

'Put the gun away, please,' Meladora Hann said. Her words were polite, but her tone, not so much.

I hesitated a split second before putting the gun under my belt, the holsters had disappeared.

'May I enter?' she asked, this time in more pleasant voice.

'Sure, it's your school,' I said, shrugging. Talking only made my headache worse and I cringed a little.

She put two pills in my hand. I swallowed them without asking and drank water from the bottle she gave me. Then she pushed me aside and walked towards the seating room. I followed her, sitting down on the seat facing her.

We stared at each other for a moment, then she spoke up.

'Could you explain to me what happened yesterday?' her voice was stern and every inch Director.

I shrugged. 'I don't remember much. I blacked out and when I came back again I was about to slash his throat.' Who again? Oh yeah, Thorn. Well, he would just hate me more. But I still felt guilty as hell.

'I thought something like that had happened. But where did you black out to?' She leaned forward, as if she seriously expected an answer.

I ground my teeth and didn't answer. After a few seconds of silence I answered that it was none of her damn business.

'I believe it is, because you almost killed one of my students yesterday,' she said. She didn't look happy at all, no.

'Which doesn't mean I have to tell you where I went. Just what made it happen.' I didn't look at her. She could kick me out of the Academy at every moment. And then I would have to go back to Jarran. To my old life.

I didn't want to.

I couldn't.

The thought of Dominic made me feel guilty as hell. I hadn't thought of him for so long. That sweet little boy was still in Jarran.

'You're not the first villager to have such a fit,' she said compassionately. 'And the protocol requires that you tell me where you went. If you don't I will have to kick you out. And I really do not want that, Rayan. You have an enormous potential. I wouldn't want it to go to waste.'