Ruin

4. Upside Down

We sent my friends to their house and left.

Raze was leaning on his hummer, talking on his phone.
"Yeah. Got it."
He ended the call and look at me.
"Are we done now?" He asked with a sigh. Not wanting him to learn more about me, I was more than ready to part way with him.
"Yeah. let's go back to downtown. I want to take my bike."
He signal his head to side way, universal sign of 'hop on'. I went back into the belly of the hummer and sigh.

He glance at me and started the car.
"You okay?"
"Fine. Just... nevermind."
He shrugs. Then he look back at me with his eyebrows furrowed.

uh.. what happen to your eyes color?"
"It's actually a contact lens and..."
"it melts." 
"While sticking on your eyes??" His eyebrow shot high up.
"Yeah."
"Shit. Doesnt that hurts? Can you still see?" he put his hand up to wave in front of me. it's annoying so i slapped it away.
"Yes to both questions"
"you are definitely not a human."
My laugh was bitter and dry.
How many times I had told myself that?

What kind of human could change their eyes and hair color?  oh yeah. shifter does. and maybe some sorceress. I don't know. there's a lot of thing to learn about this world.

"Not gonna reprimand me of killing those wolves easily?" i asked while gazing out the window. To be honest, it was easy. Too easy for me that it scared me that I feel nothing of it. Nothing at all. The only guilt I had is the guilt of not feeling anything at all. 

"Guess you never been in this side of the world. Kill or be killed is routine. It's a big deal for human, because they believe in peace and all. But for us, it is survival to the fittest. My advice? lay low. anyone know about that, hell will rain when the council get a wind about it. You're what? some kind of witches?"

"What? the hocus pocus one? I wish. I don't know what i am. I only know half of me. Sorceress."
"Sorceress? For real? that's kinda rare. You can't find them now these day. since the witch trials, they we lump together with the witches and hunted down. They were easier to detect since they had weird marking all over their body, eyes and hair pretty much different than the others. They were called, the Demon medium. Feared more by the churches."

"yeah.. guess they hide well since here I am."
"What else can you do?" He look at me for a moment before focusing back his eyes on the road.

"Command spirits. elements. I'm still learning."
"Well, just be careful not to catch the eyes head of vampire here. He's a cold bastard. Keep getting in our way."
"noted."

We reach to the parking area and he dropped me there. He left me with my bike. I look at the warehouse earlier and trained my eyes on it. If only I can put a surveillance or something on it. I need to know who made the rouge wolves and what is their plans.

But then... why bother? It's not my job to regulate peace around here. I'm no hero. I'm just a lonely, pathetic woman without any family. 

I climbed on my bike and gun it, leaving all behind in a dust.

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Just when I thought Raze had shut his trap and everything going swell so far, Uncle Jack presence was enough to tell me its gonna be downhill from now on. 

Tsk. Should've cursed the guy or something.

Uncle Jack strode into my garage with his thunderous look and a duffel bag. He threw the bag in front of me. It slide and stop just an inch away from me.
"It took me three days!! three days to now what happened inside that warehouse." Well, i guess Raze did hold on long enough, I winced trying not to imagine what kind of trouble he'd gone through by uselessly stalling the inevitable.  It was too much to expect him to do that. 

"I don't know what you're talk-"
He step forward until he was inches away from me, with his hands on his hips. He look at me straight to my eyes with his sharp gaze, his anger was palpable on the atmosphere. I swear it suck out the breathable air around us. 

"You are not getting away from this, Alexandra Rose Lexham. Some powerful people are breathing on my neck, because of what you did.  Killing people of all the thing? aRE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?!!"
I crossed my arms and titled my head.

"Last time I checked, I didn't kill people. I killed rogue werewolves that almost raped my best friends."

I saw something flash in his eyes but his facial expression didn't change.
"And who is your witness? You fucked up, Alex. Those you claimed as rouge actually have their own legal identification. They have family, friends and legal life in this side of the world. They can easily sic law jurisdiction on you if they can find even a little proof of your deed."
"They will find none. and even If by miracle they find it in unconventional way, they will only dig their own grave deeper. " Though, i didn't really think about them being rouge means they are new and still live as normal human being. That they had their own legal identification. it stinks.

"Which brings to question, Who is this big shot because i can smell conspiracy miles away? I'm willing to bet that he's the one turned the whole gang into rogue ones."

That stopped Uncle Jack. He pinched the bridge of his nose and then look upward as if trying to find any semblance of patience from the ceiling. 
"I hate the fact that you have your father tenacity to be curious and even dangerous to have your mother's analytic brain. It's a cluster fucked combination." 

"I'll take that as a compliment" He snorted.
"It's not supposed to be one. One day, you'll gonna be the death of me."
"Oh come on, Uncle. Don't be too dark. I'm sure you'll live a long prosperous life."

He rolled his eyes.  He look down at the duffel bag.

"Don't think you are parading out of this. Take that bag and get out from this town." 
"A-are you kicking me out??!" I gasp, not believing what i'm hearing. 

"I am telling you to save your skin and this town. Get out and live. Those people won't stop at nothing until they caught you."
"And where do you expect me to go?"
"Anywhere but here." He said, looking at me with his straight face. I was speechless and it sucks. Silence blanket around us, only our eyes keeping contact. He sigh again and I saw he had gone weary. All those years of taking care of me, it was as if it descend on him in one lumpy weight right at that moment. He massage his temple. 

"Look, we both know you are your parents daughter and maybe more than that. I don't know what you've been hiding from me but I believe you can take care of yourself if you set your mind on it. In this world, you have to survive. It's especially harsh for people like us to survive since we are not what this world deemed as normal. Be wise and never forget that great rapport with right people can help you go a long way."

"sometimes, your swift judgement and quick execution can be seen as monstrous but nevertheless that is one of the traits for what those who excel in this world." He throw me something and i caught it with my both hands.  I open it and saw a black tie with an big circle pendant. Inside it is a tree with nine circles at the end of the tree branches. It was tiny but visible. 

"Before they went for their trip, they gave me that. Your mother had always her uncanny 'intuition'. All this time, I always thought that she know something will happen to them and purposely went far away from you to protect you. She said said to give it to you and i'll know when it is time. I guess now is the right time more than ever. I tried looking some information about that. It seems it will lights when conditions are met. I don't know what kind of conditions but that is called the  Lux  Yggrasil pendant. I'm not trying to give you hope but that's the first clue you got to find about your parents. I don't know if they are still alive or dead, but either way, you might got your closure if you can find out about it. And i know.. if its you... you'll get to the bottom of it."

He step forward and pat my head.

"May the Gods smile upon you, child." He turned around and walk away. Leaving me with a new purpose in my life. With a duffle bag, a pendant and new resolve.