"Chaos is coming, my child.
You must change it and so you must be ready.
You need to be prepared..."
A dream changed everything for Skye Anderson.
A fiercely independent girl who sees the memories flooding her mind reminding her that...
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BONDS OF DESTINY - XI -
"Alena," she started to glow and I averted my eyes, ducking my head as she hovered over me. I had always known she was powerful but she had never emerged to her full form when she was around us. I knew I had failed her and I knew what was coming, but I was accepting my fate. I knew what I had done was wrong. I knew breaking an oath was not acceptable but at the same time I did not regret being with him. I was certain that I loved him and what I did was right. The only thing left to do was to sustain Artemis' wrath against me.
"You have disgraced me, Alena!" Her voice echoing around me as she brought her wrath upon me. I felt the knife dig deep into my skin and I clenched my teeth together to keep from screaming out in pain.
I felt a stabbing pain as she turned the dagger, digging it deeper into the skin by my collarbone, which caused a scream to get stuck in my throat. But I would endure it. I was the only one accountable for the pain and so I must accept it. My eyes shut closed and I held my breath to prevent further screams from escaping me.
"You are banned," she spat at me and I finally managed to look up at my old patron. Her eyes were glowing brightly with hatred of me breaking the oath I had pledged to her years ago. I felt the pit in my stomach turn as nausea overwhelmed me both by pain and by my shame.
"BANNED..." She spat at me finally letting go of the dagger however she did not pull it out of me. Instead she pulled me to my feet, pushing me towards the edge of the cliff.
".. To an eternity of regretting your actions," she said definitively and shoved me in the chest sending me over the cliff.
I felt the wind get knocked out of me as I landed on a hard surface, knowing my spine was crushed. I stared up at the stars blinking hard to prevent tears from spilling. I felt the bones starting to link back together in a matter of minutes and I started to feel the rest of my limbs again, though I remained still for a while.
I heaved after air, slowly moving my arm to prod myself onto my elbow. I gritted my teeth in pain as the dagger was still buried into my collarbone sending waves of immense pain through my body. I managed to grab onto the knife slowly pulling it out. As the blade finally came out of me, I turned onto my stomach as the nausea now came to display and I started puking my guts out. I wiped my mouth with the other hand as I hadn't let go of the knife now looking at it. It was Artemis' own hunting dagger, her sacred tree engraved into it.
"Alena!" I heard him yell frantically in the distance. Liam, the man I loved. The one I now had given up everything for.
"Here!" I responded though my voice sounded tired and strained. Soon I felt a presence land gracefully beside me. He kneeled down towards me, his blue eyes searching my figure with pain and frustration.
"I should not have let you go!" His voice bitter as his eyes lingered on the wound by my collarbone. The wound was already closing. I could feel it, but watching his pained expression I felt worse, not better.
