Ravaged An End of Days Novel

Chapter 32: Alissa: Fluid Movements

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Alissa

Fluid Movements

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Kaitlyn

Six hours earlier...

Sitting at the desk in Lauren's room, I was doing everything I could to decipher the mysterious runic code that we had before us. The picture of the pedestal that had been in that hospital, still bothered my mind. Where did she get something like that? And how was even able to use it to commune with that mysterious person who looked like he lived on one of the other Nine Realms. I wasn't sure of which one it was.

Taking a drag of my vape, and then quickly exhaling it, I looked back at Erin, and thought of Dimitria.

I shouldn't have done that. I shouldn't have done what I did and pushed her out like I had before in our lives. And yet, here, and now...I couldn't take that moment back. I couldn't rewind the time to say, 'come and stay with me'. But she felt it, just like I had.

She must have been fully aware of my feelings, as well as her own. And here and now, as I had told Sammi, I had to solve the riddle for her.

I had to solve this increasingly dark and dire situation that we were all trapped in before Elizabeth pulled off---whatever she had planned.

Which brought me to this next thing on the screen.

The diagram of the portal. The more I looked at it, and then replayed the footage—everything was attached to the hard drive that I had stolen, including this footage---Ali and Liss were both correct; it wasn't naturally occurring.

It felt more like.... someone had known where we were going to be at those precise moments. Yet, if Elizabeth hadn't been there—then who had?

Were we really playing with our backs against the walls, and staring down a duel to the death with Freya?

But why? That couldn't make any sense. Unless....

"Hey boo," Lauren said as she moved on from the bed, just as I got up from the chair, and she sat down, with me sitting on her lap. "You're going at this awful hard." She ruffled my hair, trying to ease me. "Anything I can do to assist you?"

I sighed, knowing I couldn't truly lie to her. She had come to know me so well over the years. "I think I made a mistake."

"What do you mean?" her gentle hands found my shoulders and slowly massaged them, trying to relax me even more. "What's bothering you?"

"It's Dimitria." I admitted. "I pushed her away...." Starting to get emotional. "And in those harrowing moments.... I...I...I fucking pushed her away. I pushed her away in my life again, and now, I feel like it'll be my fault that if anything happens to her."

"Honey," she did her best comfort me. "It's not your fault."

"Lauren," I cried harder now that my tears had started streaming down my face. "I did this to her in the past. I pushed her away. When we were in the Circle growing up, she was always overshadowed and ignored, and then there was that one job we all went on where...."

"I know." She firmly held my hands, trying to ease me now. She could feel I was shaking. "You've told me. And you told me how you felt after, however, that was in the past. And she's suffering now. And the best thing that we can do for her is figuring out the why." She paused. "If the roles had been reversed, she would be doing the very same."