The Lightning Queen

Chapter 11

Mare

This time I'm not sure when I will return to Montfort or see my family. I hope it's soon. Gisa packs my bag as I watch her from my bed. The sheets feel warm and soft under my fingers. My pillow feels perfect under my head. I could just....

"Don't fall asleep again!" She shouts. I'm beginning to think maybe redheads do have anger issues.

"I was just meditating." I say innocently and she rolls her eyes and continues packing. She stops and sits on the edge of the bed. I can't see her face.

"I'm gonna miss you." She says so softly I almost don't hear her. I hug her from the back.

"Its fine we'll see each soon." I place a strand of her hair behind her ear.

"How are you so sure its soon!" She shouts with tears in her eyes. These past weeks with my sister was something truly special and I understand where this is coming from. We never had much to talk about given our age difference by four years but it's like that never mattered now. In the slits things were so different maybe because I was different person and now I'm the lightning girl that puts her life on the line to save other.

Its fear; we've just gotten close and I don't want to this connection we have just acquired yo be gone, just like that. To have sister means to be there and spend time with her, talk about boys or girls; which ever she prefers. It means to shape her mind into a better person. Then I think about Maven and Cal.

I don't ever want that to be us but to be fair it won't ever be. They are too crazy to be in their right minds.

I find wiping the tears away from my face.

"When I see you again. I promise we'll never be apart after this time." She nods and she says the words that I wasn't expecting.

"What if Maven imprisons you again?" Fear crosses her face and her question makes liquid ice flow through my veins. I can't lie, being traumatized means thinking about your traumas frequently and I've thought about this ever since I escaped, I have to continue with life.

"If he tries, I'll kill him." No you won't. His voice whispers in my head.

No I won't. Even I know killing Maven will tear a piece of me away. It'll scar me emotional. I can't kill him, not unless I want to go through month or years of emotional breakdown, I won't even know how long it'll last but it will.

Sometimes actions speak louder than words. So I hug her for what seems to be hours, sadly we didn't have the luxury of hours. So it was merely seconds.

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After one last dinner and tears with my family until I don't know when, I board the transporter and twirl a strand of my purple and brown hair. Gisa made me dye my hair with purple streaks, before I left Montfort. It looks good, at least now I look like an official electrocon. I look over to the left.

Aleast I have Farley and Shade but they have each other. They hold hands and he twirls strands of her blonde hair with his finger. Their absolutely adorable and then they start making out again and I shift my attention to a letter sticking out from my notebook.

I haven't opened this book since a week ago. The crest is not Maven's, his uses a blue seal this is red but it's the same Calore crest.

I open the letter.

Dear Mare,

I miss you, I think you should come back Norta now. Montfort's forces are needed here. Maven killed one of our closest allies and we need you here now. It's urgent.