"There's something in her . . . She's teetering on the edge, you can see it in those dark eyes you're so fond of. If you unleash it, she'll be devastation in the worst sense there is. She'll ruin us, she'll ruin you. Leave her be, and maybe there's a shot at redemption for all of us. We've been dead since we burned ourselves with that damned Mark, but SHE didn't choose this. Don't do this to her. Don't tempt fate. We know, better than all of them that for us, it doesn't happen to be kind." "WHAT the HELL are you?" "What the hell are WE," She corrected, an eternal fire shone in those eyes that bore into you as if looking into your soul and seeing all there was, and so much more you didn't even know existed. "There will come a time you will know I am nothing to fear." I was hallucinating. "This isn't real." She gave a heavy sigh and turned away from me. "Oh I assure you this is very real, you aren't hallucinating darling. I understand, you can't accept me yet, but trust there will come a day. Until then, I'll be here, waiting. After all," she called behind her as she receded into shadows,"I've got an eternity." "YOU don't know what you are. If you did, you wouldn't be begging" The blade was removed from Maia's throat, the woman backing away from her. "And I'm supposed to believe that you do?" Her kidnapper turned, her back to Maia she called out behind her, a gesture she found vaguely familiar, though she couldn't for the life of her remember why. "Of course I do." Anger boiled inside her gut, making her see red. "Then enlighten me oh wise one," Maia sneered. "Enlighten? Oh, you have no idea how wrong that statement is." Maia clawed at the rope binding her, Jerking back and forth with a fury as she let the hate take her over with a violent force. "WHAT THE HELL AM I?" Maia screamed, and the woman's grin faded from her pretty face, replaced by a satisfaction that made Maia's blood run cold. "Why, my dear. YOU are THEIR destruction."

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