AFIRE: fight for the Earth begins✓

27.3 AIJA

The story so far:

----Aija, Zuri, and Ze are three friends, who were working at the Pristine School at Innermost. Aija gets involved with the Ytai first, leading Zuri and Ze to them as well. Zuri falls in love with Nala (Lalana), who is Ytai, and works with Thieron. Aija and Ze are captured by Thieron, of H'eon, when they were at the Hospital - Aija was at the Hospital with Kuna of R'ies and Zuri to stop a Harvest; Ze was there to visit his sick student Xan. Xan, a student at the Pristine School, gives up his soul to Thieron, and Xan, is subsequently released by Aija. He then settles into the body of a kitten that Aija found at the Hospital, and is taken to where Thieron resides. Aija wills Xan to talk; he can speak now with his own voice. Thieron has bound Aija to himself, and Nala has bound Ze to herself. Luka works for Thieron(Ah'n), along with Lalana (Nala). Luka found Aija first at her school, teaching the kids. He seems to care for her. Luka's feelings for Aija only seem to be increasing with time. He's worried about Thieron finding out.

----Thieron and Aija get into a fight. When Thieron was asleep, Aija cut his hair to get back at him.

----Thieron is angry, but goes ahead and gets himself a haircut. He feels better and less angry.

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****27.3 - Aija****

Aija knew Thieron had come into the room. She wanted to ignore him for as long as possible. 

He cleared his throat, and she found her eyes going to him. 

She had cut his hair, hoping to ruin it. She expected it to hurt him; she knew that his hair meant something more to him than style. He had shown anger, but he'd gone ahead and gotten himself a neat haircut and to add to it - a clean shave. 

And, somehow, it had calmed him. 

And, it had disconcerted her. 

He looked more handsome now. All that hair on his face had hidden his true beauty. But now, with his hair cut short, and all that facial hair gone - he looked stunning. He was breathtakingly attractive. And, what had seemed like excessively thick eyebrows now looked beautiful; the entire focus now on his gorgeous mismatched eyes. The barber had done an unnecessarily superior job. Thieron seemed a whole lot more arrogant than before, and he had been incalculably arrogant, to begin with. 

 Thieron truly looked formidable now. Aija could see the Ah'n everyone feared. 

She had wanted to ruin him and had instead given him more power. 

Thieron placed the plate in his left hand beside her on the bed, his eyes searching for something in hers. He wasn't wearing the lenses that made his eyes blue; his true eye colors were even more attractive now. 

"You eat in the room," he told her, his voice devoid of feeling. 

She noticed a mole on the left side of his chin. She hadn't noticed it before thanks to the thick stubble he had sported. The enemy was too good looking. It was unfair; his beauty was far more superior to her own, not that she considered herself beautiful. Heartless people shouldn't have the right to look so good. 

"I'm happy right here," she claimed, not wanting to lose to him. 

He smiled, and her eyes widened. He had dimples. 

"I was thinking that locking you in this room isn't adequate punishment." his voice sounded melodious as if he were soothing, not threatening her. 

"Do what you want," she snapped at him. 

He smirked, and those damned dimples showed themselves again. He went close to Aija, she leaned back. His hand caught a few strands of her hair and twisted them deliberately, slowly around his fingers. He gave her a sinister smile.