The Silver In Her Eye

CHAPTER 2

Chapter 2

She was about to open her mouth to question on further. But was interrupted by a deep - clearly male - voice shouting, "Silence." This certainly got everyone's attention. All of the original conversations and chatter settled into a dead silence. You would be able to hear a pin drop.

She could not see what was happening very well. Her father and herself were off to the side and back of the crowd. But she could still hear perfectly well.

The same male voice spoke up from the front, "As many of you may or may not know, there have been rumors and strange happenings going around Tayl, both The City and other surrounding villages." This news was certainly new to Avreale.

"People have been found murdered by unseen forces. All bloody, with torn up clothes and mixed up body parts of other bodies. Some people are seen stumbling around in the middle of the night muttering nonsense about magic happenings in the Aternitas forest. Something about Pixies with silver eyes. People are disappearing, coming back days, or even weeks later. Rambling on and on about strange things," there was a pause, "It seems to have been driving people to the brink of insanity," another pause,"It is clearly the work of a Pixie, with a silver eye?"

No one moved a muscle. Shock forming on everyone's faces, including Avreale's. 'Pixies?' she thought 'Absolutely ridiculous. There was no such thing.'

The man apparently had more to say. And what he said next, sent the crowd into an uproar, "There are rumors that there are Pixies running loose in the outer villages. Including Nixiton."

There was a silent pause, before a cry rang out. It was a young boy who Avreale did not know. But he seemed to know her. Then again, almost everyone knew her,"Silver eye! The Woodcutter! His daughter, Avreale! The freak with the eye patch always over the right eye! Silver eye! "

Agreements rose throughout the villagers. Avreale couldn't believe what she was hearing. The villagers, especially the ones near her age, always teased and hurt her. But she could never imagine them going this far. She was human. Even with a silver eye, she was human.

At least that's what she believed at the time.

"Of course!"

"She's a Pixie!?"

"It's so obvious."

"She seemed human enough."

Avreale felt overwhelmed as she felt her father pull her into a sideways hug. It seemed that he was trying to comfort her. But it wasn't working very well. He leaned down and whispered into her ear so no one else would hear, "Be ready to run. Find Rowan, grab the packs and run for your life. I love you!"

She grew more and more frightened. The original male voice spoke up against the roar of the crowd, "Well then. Where is she? This Avreale with the silver eye?"

With that, the crowd parted and everyone pointed into the direction of Avreale's shaking figure, huddled into her father's side.

The male walked at an agonizing pace towards Avreale and her father. Avreale was pulled behind her father, as a bunch of gasps ran throughout the crowd. Her father -  as well as the Blacksmith and the Tailor -  had all pulled out guns, all of them aiming at the lead male.

He stepped forward slowly, and surveyed the scene, "Now all we want is the girl. If we get her willingly, then we will leave in peace. If we don't get her willingly, then we will just take her by force. And it will not end well"

That is when all the chaos started.

A gunshot from Avreale's father's gun caused a loud panic to arise. Over all the commotion, Avreale barely heard her father shout at her, "Run! Find Rowan, and run! I love you!"