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35 | Chapter XXXV - Motionless Eyes And Terrifying Resemblance

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Madness - Ruelle
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       I Inhale sharply.

       "Cece, you okay? You've gone whiter than my hair..." Alek speaks as she places a hand on my shoulder to steady me.

      "Yeah, uh...I'm honestly not ready for this." I stop for a breath. "But I don't think I'll ever be so let's just get this out of the way." I sigh and stand up from the bed, giving Alek a faint smile as we head to the golden-crusted door.

       I only now realise I'm still in my travelling clothes, but hey - it's my father so he's not gonna hate me for it. Is he?

        Alek opens the door for me and places a hand on my shoulder re-assuringly.
"At least your getting to see him again." She smiles sadly as she closes the door behind me. I can't help but feel that sad words have a hidden meaning.

      "Alek...what do you mean?" I ask as softly as I can, I can tell this is a sensitive topic for her. Nonetheless she flashes a friendly smile as we continue walking down the corridor.

     Honestly, I have no idea where we are going. I'm just following Alek, every corridor looks the same to me. She's silent for a few minutes.

       "Around about 5 years ago I lost my mother." She sighs,"obviously it didn't affect my father to the point of insanity because...they didn't really love each other." She looks at me with her crystal eyes.

     "Alek I'm so sorry...." I plead, regretting that I even mentioned it. My mother may not have been my birth, but she was still my mom and had always been there for me. It was hard to grieve a parent that you don't remember.

     "No Cece, it's alright. If anyone knows about loss it's you." She smiles through her tears. We then descend down some stairs, I think I have a rough idea where we are now. If I'm correct we should be in the left wing - but then I never was an expert in geography.

     But what she said was true. I did know a lot about loss, I'd lost my real parents once...and I wasn't prepared to loose my father again anytime soon.

      "Do you mind me asking what happened?" I ask as I try not to stumble down the stairs to my death. I really need a new sense of humour.

      "Yeah, I don't mind talking about it, honestly." She smiles. "I was fifteen at the time and my brother had just gone missing, we had no idea where he was or if he was even alive. But it seriously affected my mom. She loved my brother so much more than me honestly, he was the star child that was going to take over as alpha of the Northern-Moon pack when he was old enough."

      "Which meant that he was going to be in control of the whole kingdom," She looked downwards.
" We didn't even know you were alive at the time honestly."

   I listened cautiously.

      "He was only fifteen....he hadn't even turned for the first time yet, he couldn't take the pressure my father put on him so he left." She clenches her jaw.

      "He never came back." She looks at me, "so my mom decided that suicide was an option for her." She says in dark humour, I'm so surprised at how bluntly she puts it that I just look at her with my eyebrows raised.