© Amber Kalkes 2014
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Fourteen+
“No.” I whisper in horror.
My mind is frozen in shock but my body is not. I don’t remember putting on my socks and combat boots. I don’t know what Gideon and Edie were yelling at me about and to be honest I don’t have a fuck to give. Crawling out of my window to the fire escape I faintly hear Gideon screaming at me before he grabs my arm reeling me back so I’m eye to eye with his large violet eyes, too much like mine.
“What the fuck are you doing?” He snarls in my face.
“I have to get to him.”
I don’t realize until I hear my own voice that I’m sobbing.
He frowns deeply, “Who?”
“Orin.” I cry out. “Ornias has Orin and he’s going to kill him. I have to go to him. I have to save him.”
“I’m coming with then.”
I shake my head, “No, I need you to keep Edie and Nola safe.”
“I’m you twin, Lila, I have to—“
“No!” I scream making my wings shiver and shake with the ripples of my rage, “You stay here. Orin is my responsibility. Stay here.”
He looks at me for a long time before pulling me against his chest as his arms wrap around me in a tight embrace. He hugs me shortly but with enough emotion and concern to last a lifetime. Pulling back I can see the sad resignation in his eyes knowing that facing our birth father isn’t going to be pretty but respecting me enough to let me do it on my own.
“Lila?”
“Yes?” I sniffle, wiping a tear.
He smirks, “Kick his ass.”
Letting my wings unfurl behind me before beating them using every muscle in my back to get them pumping. I glance down at my chest and realize with fascination and a bit of relief that I’m still physically tied to the inky bird. My eyes are half on what I’m doing, the other half on the scene shown through the bird’s one red eye.
Orin is on his knees still and Ornias just keeps taunting him, specifically about me before to my shock he looks straight at me, like right in the eye. His eyes all black minus the area around where his irises would be which has a red ring around it locks on me, or the bird I guess. His grin is wide and malicious with rows of sharp white teeth.
“Oh look, Orin.” Ornias says with amusement, “My daughter has sent a little spy. It seems even her twisted little soul is fond of you.” He looks over Orin and curls his upper lip. “I don’t see the appeal.”
Orin looks me as well through his blood tinted green eyes, “Angel, don’t come here.”
Fuck that.
Unfortunately Ornias seems to agree. Lifting one black ink stained hand he twists his fingers and a sharp tug erupts in my chest. I cry out in shock and the pinch it give me. Ornias’s smile is gleeful as he does this again and again before suddenly I’m in his face and his freaky eyes are level with mine.
“Come and join us, little Halfling.”
Suddenly my wings are paralyzed as the tugging in my chest is suddenly like an anchor dragging me to the bottom of the sea. My body arches as I go careening through the sky for god knows how long before I go crashing to the ground with a startled scream. I faintly hear Orin’s snarl of rage but it only makes me relax knowing he’s alive.
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