A Court of Darkness and an Heir of Fire

Chapter 14

Marion

I decided the moment I return home if I can the first thing I will do is ask Uncle Aedion to make a waistband with a knife sheath in such a way that my opponent cannot take it out. Yet I feel happy , all these days of sadness and frustration about staying away from home was put down into a worthy fight. I didn't loose. No not really. It could've only been justified if it had been a good fight. She was changing to another set of black dresses and tying up her hair into a ponytail, when there was a tickling sensation in her mind and-HEYYYYYYYYYY!silenceI hurriedly open the door and out there was a grinning Dwayne. His wings were nowhere to be seen., he could vanish them voluntarily. He was wearing same type of Night Clothes and a small crown made of darkness itself. His violet eyes were looking into mine and suddenly I was imagining myself holding him very close to me. Dwayne's loud-laugh shook me back to reality and I shook my head to clear it. "You bastard , son of a bitch!", I couldn't control the redness of my cheeks so I looked away. "You wanted to go to the Library. Are you free now ~Lady~?", Dwayne asked his skin glowing faintly. "the Library! The one you told has many books? Yes Obviously!!", I exclaim . Books had always made me happy. Once I had gone to Adarlan and I almost fainted on seeing the huge library and hundreds of books. "We cannot winnow to there. So we have to fly", he tells me grinning wickedly. I smirk at him , "What are we waiting for then?". He chuckles and then he puts his strong masculine arms around my waist and we are into the sky in a second. A yelp leaves my mouth and Dwayne laughs. He tilts to the corner and I can see a building that vaguely looks like a Library. We reach there very soon and he puts me down gently. When I enter the Library of Velaris my mouth falls on seeing it. It was Huge Huge with thousand of shelves and millions of stacks of books. For the first time I felt like staying at Velaris so that I can read all these books. While I am gaping at the books, a slim Lady comes in front of me . She is wearing a pale robe and a hood with a crown of limpid blue stones . The fingers in her hand was turned and bent. "Meet Clotho. She is a priestess. Clotho this is Marion", the girl nods. I cannot see her face because of the hood , nevertheless I smile. Dwayne leads me to the interior of the Library, I look behind me but I find myself staring into void. I whisper to Dwayne, "What happened to her fingers and voice?". I can hear him sigh and he replies keeping his voice equally low, "Clotho was injured badly by a group of males. They cut out her tongue, and smashed her hand for entertainment and to ensure that Clotho couldn't inform anyone about who hurt her. They further healed her while hurting her to ensure that the damage was permanent." ~~ Gods Above.~~ "Didn't you all ever find out who it was?""Yes, Mor did find her and brought her to my father. Later on Mor hunted down the males and killed them", he sighs. "That is why we can't winnow in , out or within the Library." I realize that I was holding my breath. This is so cruel . Cutting out the tongue and damaging the hands so that she can neither speak nor write I sigh and shake my head. I make a mental note to say something nice to her if I met her again Dwayne leads me to a stack of books. "Amren was probably reading them", he mutters. I look over his shoulders and into the pages of the books. It has pictures of a huge soup-bowl, "That's the Cauldron, not a soup bowl Lady",he smirks. "Stop getting into my head!""Block me then"A challenge.I imagine the same wall of fire I imagined that time when Rhysand entered into my head. I imagined fire balls getting dashed off from my wall at any unwanted access. ~~THERE!~~ That tickling sensation again but before the tickle gets too deep the fire wall pushes it off. "You're a quick learner." he says and I smirk at him. I make my way over to the table and turn through the pages of another book that says much more things which goes over my head about the Cauldron. I can hear Dwayne gasp and I raise my eyes to find him staring at a book. His gaze slowly turns to me and he speaks, "These symbols...they are so similar to those at your back. When you landed at the Court of Nightmares a part of the tattoo on your back was visible. These symbols are so similar to those.", he turns the page towards me and all the things come rushing into my mind. YES! of course the symbols! My dad had made them for me to open any portal if anything happens to me. They are wrydmarks on my back! But how can these wrydmarks be related to the Cauldron? Does it also draw power from the wrydmarks...? Or are they created from the same source.... Then can I return? I cannot answer these questions and the theories are also vague. Maybe my mom can tell me something. I look at Dwayne and his eyes go wide, "I think I know how I can return."