***Scarlet***
I looked around and it was all dark. All but, three long spots of sudden light. I've never been here before. I knew it just by looking around. I would know if I was here before. It wasn't something you would forget.
Lexiey looked down on me smiling. "Ha. Look who found you, how did that happen?" she laughed at herself.
Knowing that she was here explained a little more of what I saw. There were people sitting staring at me, at Lexiey. Crying, no, not crying. Sobbing, bawling. That was the least to say. They looked scared and worried. I didn't think they knew where they were.
I didn't know if I got here by choice or she found me and brought me here. My guess was I found my own way here in one of my dreams and she found her way to me.
"Looks like Ceal was the wrong choice. I had a feeling that he would do something dumb like this to save a shapeshifter. Only the ones with green eyes care." she laughed as she looked at one of the woman who was like me, had no clue what was going on. She woman cried out when Lexiey kicked her. "Shut up. I didn't tell you to cry....yet. Ha. Anyway back to Scarlet.... Did you think you could get away from me? Get away from what your kind did to me? To my family? They are dead thanks to keepers like you!" She spit out the words.
"Lexiey, I didn't even know I was a keeper let alone my family. I don't even know my family. I have no memory of them. How would you even know that it was my family and no someone else's?"
Her smile slipped like she was thinking then she walked over to me where I was siting. "Do you mind?" she asked. I shook my head no.
She pushed back my hair on my neck and placed a finger on it. "Your birthmark is the sign of the keeper. Did you know that? Its a symbol that they all have. And guess what? You my dear Scarlet have one. That's how I know."
I tried to look then I remembered when it happened.
*****
I was sleeping. It was peaceful. Hector and everyone had fallen asleep long before. Ha we had a fun day down at the rope swing. It wasn't often that we got out to do fun things like that.
There was a burning in my neck. I went to grab it but only to find that if you touched it that it burned my hand too. I pulled my hand back and ran to the bathroom. The mirror that was placed right above the sink showed a small baby blue symbol on my neck. The blue mark looked like a water wave in the ocean.
I put my hand back on it and it was cool. Cooler than the rest of my body. It felt nothing like when I touched it before. Now it was cool, it almost hurt to touch it cool. It was better than a burning symbol.
****
"I told you so." were the last words I heard before it all went black again.
