The Sovereign

THREE | Not So Human | THREE

There is a monster hiding in the mirror. When I lean closer, it comes nearer.

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Vivian Bane

N O T S O H U M A N

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I couldn't believe it at the start. I could hardly breathe when I got the call. How long has it been? How many decades have passed since I've heard that name. I've lost count of the ages. I've lost the hope. The memories were faded, drifted in a distant past. I thought I would never hear that name again.

Katherine Ambrose, I hardly recognized it.

Ambrose, I was happy for her. She got married, just like how she's dreamed when we were young. I hardly recognized the name when I first heard. I thought I'd have to wait for death until I'd get to hear those words again.

She used to be Katherine Winters, your sister correct?

How was she? Where is she now? I could barely handle the questions in my mind. I didn't know what to say, or what to ask first. How could I? The last time we spoke, she made it clear to never speak again.

I'm so sorry Mrs. Bane, your sister passed away last night.

My lungs crashed, my heart burned, my world stopped with those words. I remember my phone almost slipping from my hands in shock. The ache in my chest stabbed me, not for the stranger that she's become, but for the sister I used to have. How? Why? Alongside the pain, the anger burned.

She and her husband were found mutilated in their home. I'm afraid there's not enough pieces for a body to bury.

Blurry images of a sixteen year old brunette burned in my mind. Her soft blue eyes, dimpled cheeks and button nose. I couldn't imagine something so violent to happen to her. She was nothing but an angel and could hardly hurt a fly. She didn't deserve such a fate, no one did.

Ma'am, I'm calling because Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose has two minor children, a seventeen and a fourteen year old girls. They're both unharmed from the incident.

A shaky breath escaped my lips. Tears threatened to spill as my lips wavered and teeth clenched. I felt my breath constrict, the pain spreading around my chest. I never even knew I had nephews, but knowing paid with my sister's life. Losing her shattered my heart, but I knew that if I lost them too. I couldn't take it.

You're the last living relative these girls have, Mrs. Bane. They have nowhere else to go.

My heart burned for the two. Losing both parents in such a way would have been such a devastation for anyone. But as I realized what that meant, I couldn't think.

You'll have full custody of the girls, they'll be in your care effective immediately

I didn't know what to do. I was eccentric. I get to have the nieces I never knew, to be part of their lives, but there was one problem.

They were humans.

They were not a part of our world, of our town. They didn't belong in our way of life, it was how I lost my sister in the first place. Now they were coming here, in a world far from their own.

Despite all of that, I wasn't worried because of the things that lived in this town. No, it was the Sovereigns that I worry about.

It wouldn't have been a problem. They were just two clueless humans coming into our care and as long as they stay that way. They wouldn't be involved. Within a witch coven, we were the most suitable to blend in with the humans without suspicion. It was suppose to be simple.