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一 | ACT i (BEYOND BUCOLIC)
Chapter 2. Limbo
SEATTLE,
WASHINGTON, U.S.A.
22:54 | January 16th 2006
TIME HAD GONE BY EXCRUCIATING SLOW but when Delphi opened her eyes, she knew things were very different.
Rotted wood and flaked paint was the first thing she saw and she realised that she'd never really seen anything before. Delphi wondered how that was before her vision was 20/20, but never she could see every minuscule detail.
Sunlight was straining through the boarded-up windows, even so, the light was blinding. Yet she could see every single spec of dust drifting in the stuffy building and she gasped in shock. The intake of air felt unnatural and unnecessary and but she could taste everything in the room.
Her eyes followed every direction, only to realised that she was laying down.
She tripped on her feet while getting up. But the way her she caught that her mind had to catch up to whatever happened to her, didn't go unnoticed.
Questions invaded her mind, none that she knew the answer too. Why she was in an abandoned factory, she didn't know? Why was her vision so clear, she didn't know? Why was there burning in her throat, she didn't know?
What she did know was that Riley Biers was staring at her from across the room with his strange red eyes. But this wasn't the Riley she remembered.
The brown eyes that made people falter for a second, wondering if they were seeing things were replaced. His nose was no longer crooked, from falling face-first off his skateboard more than a dozen times. The tiny cigarette burns under his chin that he got when he was messing around on his roof.
All the things that made him him, gone. In its place was this perfect beautiful man she didn't know. His creamy skin was now marble, gone were the days it would blush in the Forks winter.
Jet black jeans and a tight grey long-sleeved that clung to muscles she didn't know existed. She didn't remember him to be this lean and muscular, but then again she didn't see as clearly as she did now.
His hair, ever the same a mess of dirty blonde, wisps of it covering his eyes. Those eyes, they were what frightened her the most. It wasn't the colour, no matter how alarming. It was the hardness in them that couldn't possible belong to Riley Biers.
Sauntering over to her with thatface and a certain swagger to him that would make anyone cringe back a little,but Delphi knew Riley when he was 14 and obsessed with the Backstreet Boys andThe Matrix, this boy couldn't frighten her.
"Well, you aren't dead." A simple fact that changed everything and nothing.
For the past few months, all Delphi saw for Riley was darkness, so she assumed he died, but apparently not.
"But you sure are."
She examined herself, "Dead? But what kind? What have you done to me?"
She stood to face him,
"Done for you. Immortality." His lip twitched ever so slightly as he watched her struggle to understand herself and it irritated her severely. But she wouldn't let it show if she was smart. Even knowing him so well, this was nothing she had dealt with and she had to keep her guard up.
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Prophetic ▹ Riley Biers (Daughters of Lilith I)
Vampiri❝ she never loved him until he was gone, and when she found him again he wasn't alone. his love for her was eternal, but easily hidden by one that's carnal ❞ ••• Delphi Frobisher always saw what was coming, it was a talent. But she never saw...
