Wintersmoon

Chapter 12- I Welcomed The Daggers With Open Arms

Previously
Knock knock.
"Come in!"
In walked the people I was hoping to see. My family.
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I smiled from ear to ear, a grin tightening and using most of the muscles in my face. I hadn't seen my family in what seemed like forever. It had been four, five or six days...? I'd lost track of time in this palace of madness; always seeming to end up sprawled across the bedding in an unladylike manner.
    Glancing up at the clock, I span my head around when the doorknob twisted and a used and disfigured hand placed itself shakily on the side of the door, steadying themselves in a feeble attempt to open it. Ever so slowly, it opened. A pair of stormy grey, a pair of light blue, another of dark brown and two sea-green pairs worked their way around the doorframe, peering into the vast expanse of grey and white objects that the royals call 'a bedroom'.
    I squealed with delight. My sisters matching my excitement. Sprinting to my side, both of them raced towards me; determined to be the first one seated and obtain the best spot. The withered hand still help open the door waiting for Kalis to enter. He stepped in, finally followed by Annalise, the Mother. Her old and worn hand released the door, coming to rest on Kalis shoulder for support as she delicately stumbled in. In her previous years as a young woman, she'd been a dancer and now everything she did was daintily done and perfectly timed.
    A large figure lingered in the doorway, his frame casting along shadow amongst the glossed, wooden, woodworm-eaten floorboards. His talk body hesitant to enter the threshold, sending daggers my way.
    "I'm so glad to final-" I started to say.
    "Save the bullshit for people with the time, Valsy." Shæyn stated, anger radiating from him. He seemed so powerful from his intimidating stance.
    Annalise hissed in disapproval of his language but made no comment.
    "I didn't know."
    "Sure you didn't." He pointed at me and winked sarcastically, as if I was withholding information. Shæyn's voice was tinged with hurt.
    "I tell you all everything! Every one of you knows I'd been waiting for that day forever! I didn't know who I was and how was I supposed to?" I murmured, my voice rising but not high enough to convey my hidden tone of anger.
    "That's what I believed but it was just another lie that you told us to make us like you. To con us into thinking you were family." There was no hurt now. Only plain distaste and hatred registered in my mind as I heard those words.
    My heart dropped as did my jaw. Something deep inside of me contracted and curled itself inside of me. Constricting like a spring after it's been pulled, my gut wrenched against me, causing me even more pain than already. I blinked. I blinked again.
    I opened my voice to reply but no words came out. Annalise spoke but I couldn't hear her. Time froze.
    I could hear my heartbeat and the blood pounding through every part of my body. A tear dropped out of my eye, followed by its brother and then another. Trying to speak I stretched my mouth wider until it became almost impossible to widen it unless I impossibly tore my mouth open, somehow. My throat tensed up before I let out a petrifying scream that would stop even the hardiest of people stone dead in their tracks and start quaking.
    A tap in the next room dripped and on the other side of the palace, a wren pitched in the roof summoned its children with a wakening symphony of warmth. Nearby a mother cuckoo quirked her neck as she spied her next victim family to drop a bombshell on. The nest of the wrens was about to become a chaotic land of lies and deceit for these poor chicks.
****A/N****
So this is a massive hint about what's happened and try and use your English skill to infer what's happened. Haha had an English exam yesterday so still kinda in the mindset lmao. Hope you enjoyed the chapter and I'll see you next time guys x
P.S; 300 reads omfg! *mentally soothes myself and calms down so she won't look weird to the people reading*
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