Carmine (Completed)

Chapter 46

This same place again, why was I here? It was my old bedroom from the Ascus palace.

I groaned in discontent.

The walls never got closer. Maybe I should be the master of my fear. I sat on my sheets with my legs crossed and waited.

At times, I heard my name in dull whispers, cries of passion, and sometimes bellows of anger.

It was unnerving, for it was never one voice. So many people were calling for me, but who was I in the grand scheme of things?

I shivered when my eyes opened to a dark blur and the pain set in.

“Carmine...” I knew that voice, and came off the bed looking around for that murderous woman.

A hand grasped the jamb of the open doorway. I stared at it.

A forearm revealed itself leading up to a shoulder and then came that eye that struck fear through me.

Sweat peeled down my face as that eye seared through me.

My fingers curled inward as the nerves strung along my straightened back. 

"Carmine."

Garth?

That eye moved forward and so did the face that carried it. 

His face looked so unreal in the center of that darkness.

"Garth, what are you doing here?"

That big smile on his face was quite a fierce expression. There was nothing warm about it though.

"You need to come." Garth's face did not move.

"Where?" I gasped out of my mouth.

"You have to. You need to leave. You're in danger."

"Dan—" A burst of pain hits my head.

Passing woods startled me, my screams consumed me and my father's hand clenched around my wrist reminded me of that day.

The last day I was in Ascus.

"No." I shook my head.

Garth frowned now.

I left before and I was not leaving again. Though, this place did look like my room it didn't feel like it. I just didn't want to leave.

Something told me not to leave.

Garth's face slipped back into the darkness. 

The floor broke apart as it became squares. Lines cut through the wall and even the roof fell like a thick fabric. It hits my head, but no feeling swept through me.

I whipped my head around and almost ran from my spot in terror. Everything was gone. Darkness surrounded me except for a shape ten feet from me.

I glared at it through the corner of my eye cautious of what it was. My jaw widened in abstract fear.

 Canus, he was hunched to the side his head, twisted unnaturally and his arms were wide as a kite.

I drifted back holding my mouth. My legs shook and struggled to hold up. Corona's laughter hit me like lightning.

“Leave me alone!” I shouted back.

A sharp pain shook my eyes open to see Janilla over me. My body shook, then I remained still and looked around. I was back in my hut.

My head blazed. “Wh...” I tried to speak.

Janilla pulled me up. “You were shouting in your sleep so I—pinched you.” She backed away expecting some rebuke.