Magic and Destiny: Fate

Chapter 9

Chapter 9

Walking back into the light of day, the waning existence of the sun lowering, she didn't have to shield her eyes from being in the darkness. She looked down at her hand, the necklace dangling a little. The chain, when she had picked it up off the stone had wrapped itself around her arm, making sure she wouldn't just drop it as soon as she was outside in the light of the day.

She took a good look around her as she stood in the light. She looked at her dress, seeing the blood stains from the many cuts on her limbs. She also saw the holes in her outfit from the various things she had hit when she fell, and from where the bones had split from her body and poked through the skin.

Taking a deep, shuttering breath as the weight of the situation took its toll on her mind; Jaine began her slow walk home. She stopped at the top of the first large hill, and looked back at the oak tree, shivering from the fresh memories. She turned her back on the tree, and began dragging branches and brush across the path so no-one would be able to go towards the tree again. Determined to not venture outside for some time, she went home, silent as the night is dark.

When she arrived at home, her parents saw her condition and immediately began to ask her questions. The voice told her to lie, that they mustn't know the truth or her pains would return. To prove this statement, he let one of the cracked bones ebb with a wave of pain, just enough to know he was being truthful, not to be noticeable. To her credit, she had lied, effectively too, the voice thought.

She had told her family that she had been chasing a rabbit, and it went through some dense foliage. Her dress had been caught and torn in places as she had searched for the rabbit. When she had realized she would not be able catch the rabbit, she noticed that she had lost her way from her normal walking path and it had taken some time to find it again so she could get home. With the lying out of the way, her parents told her to go upstairs and wash up because dinner was almost ready.

She went upstairs and into her bedroom, looking around the room, she went to the bedside table and placed the locket down. "Get acquainted with your new surroundings, for this is your new prison for the next few years."

This at least is a better prison than that hole.

Shaking her head, she walked across the hall and washed her hands, looking into the mirror and seeing that she seemed to have aged significantly in the last day. After going back into her room and changing, she walked back down the stairs and into the kitchen, smelling the sweet aroma of a fresh apple pie.

She took her accustomed spot at the table near the window, and placed her napkin in her lap. Her dad was already seated at the table, and mother was bringing the first course to the table. Salad, no dressing. She sighed inwardly, what a boring first course. When they were done with the salad, mother brought over to table some baked chicken with chopped up potatoes and other vegetables.

The meal was eaten in silence, and as soon as it was over she went back up to her room and went straight to sleep. She dreamed that night, the resonate energy from her healing invading the brain cells and nerve systems in her body. She hadn't known it at the time, but part of the energy was actually some of the essence of the voice. A man she had never dreamed of before was in her dreams. He was handsome, in a rugged fashion. He had stubble, and was very muscular.

He seemed broken, sad. She walked closer to take a better look at what she was seeing. When she stood before him, she took his face in her hands, and forced him to look into her eyes. "Why do you look so sad?" She made him continue to look into her eyes even as he tried to look away, the tears still very evident on his cheeks.