CHAPTER
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A HASTY TURN
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THE UNKNOWN
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“My lord, there is a plague coming.” Ian, the general of
my army said while trying to catch his breath.
“What parable do you speak of, Ian?”
“The full might of the south are heading towards this
direction. We can’t stop those men; the numbers are
not in our favor.”
“Do not speak on what we can and cannot do, that is
for me to decide. Who leads this great army?”
“It’s the old wizard, Elphisius.”
“Alright, go and gather your men. No one leaves or
enters the city. The walls must not be breached, defend
it with your lives. Now, go.” The weak general left in a
hurry.
The young king has finally decided to make his plans
open. He wanted this and provoked me to get it. He has
come to finish what his father started but what he is
yet to know is that; this battle was his father’s last
and it will ultimately be his last too. I left the courts
and moved to my chambers as soldiers were busy
gathering the able men they could find among the few
in the land. The people might not have been preparing
for a battle but I have always wanted this for a long
time now. I dismissed the guards and closed my doors
as I sought to summon one of my trusted few – Rachel.
***************************************
LUCIEN
**************************************
“Lucien, do not do this. Think over this thoroughly; do
not start this war.” The old wizard pleaded.
“Do not start now, old man. I should have destroyed
those ungrateful animals a long time ago. How could
that waste of a king come after my subjects, not just
any but the one who has gifts that rivals mine? That
singular act of his has clearly stated his intentions; he
wants my throne. I have been negligent enough to even
allow such thoughts survive a day, I won’t watch him
create another path to end my reign. He and his
subjects will receive my full wrath. Get the legions
ready, I want that kingdom and everything within it
burnt to the ground. No one moves against me and
lives, no one.” I screamed and the old man quickly got
to work.
I have tolerated so much nonsense from him; I won’t
listen to another of his warnings as they never hold
water. My father might have died fighting this
kingdom but that happened because he decided to put
his trust in the wrong hands. The foolish old wizard,
Melfisius is once again involved and now I know for
certain he had a hand in the death of my father. I
won’t let this bold move of his to end me go unpunished,
I will makes sure he joins my father in the underworld.
The wizard is the backbone of that old swine and killing
him will break down his master’s resolve.
“Send for the gordands.” I ordered one of the guards
in the court. They soon arrived in their usual dress.
“What does my king want of us?” Tasha, the leader of
the deadly women asked.
“I have called for the legions to head north with
Elphisius leading them. The men of steel and magic will
destroy and plunder whatever they deem fit but I need
four of you to go after the wizard, Melfisius. I want
him in chains right here in my palace. I want to see his
treacherous face again before I lead him through the
path of pain. The remaining five of you will remain
here. Pick among yourselves who will go after the
wizard and who will stay. Do that quickly, time is of the
essence.”
***************************************
THE UNKNOWN
**************************************
I called out to the darkness with a spell created by
Melfisius, after covering every space light could enter
the chambers. I waited patiently in the darkness I
created for my summoning to be answered and it
happened. I heard her voice behind me but I didn’t
turn, I decided to go ahead with the discussion without
turning back.
“The situation must be dire for you to have summoned
me through this path. What is it, my king?”
“We have to move quickly, I didn’t expect the young
king to send more than half of his army. I am at the
disadvantage in all things save for you and our work.
Melfisius is presently useless but he might yet be useful
as time goes on but for now, we must hurry.”
“So, what do you propose?” “You know it already, I
need a diversion. Something that will halt the bringers
of death to my kingdom and the only way is whom I
have asked you to watch. Have you planted the seed of
discord within them?”
“Yes, I have. The mother guardian is focused on what
has no bearings while the man is torn between trusts
and words.”
“Good, very good; It’s therefore time for you to make
that seed a tree and allow the broken man fulfill the
prophecy. Reveal the truth to him this time and I will
take it from there. You have to be quick about it; we
have only until night fall tomorrow. Do not fail me now,
my dear.”
“I will die in service to my king, I won’t fail you.”
With that, she left through the darkness she came
while I walked to the windows and pulled the curtains
aside for the light to chase away it’ss eternal enemy. I
watched as the soldiers guided the people to a safe
tower but that won’t save them from the might and
wrath of the young king. Only one man has the power
to stop this; the one with the broken destiny.
******************************************
...... Sorry about yesterday guys, something came up. I
will update today again if I get the chance.
Anyway, I just noticed that it's been two months since I
started this story and it feels as if I am still
introducing everything. Well, that stops now. I will
speed up updates and that should see the story end in
about two weeks from now.
**************************
A HASTY TURN
**************************
THE UNKNOWN
**************************
“My lord, there is a plague coming.” Ian, the general of
my army said while trying to catch his breath.
“What parable do you speak of, Ian?”
“The full might of the south are heading towards this
direction. We can’t stop those men; the numbers are
not in our favor.”
“Do not speak on what we can and cannot do, that is
for me to decide. Who leads this great army?”
“It’s the old wizard, Elphisius.”
“Alright, go and gather your men. No one leaves or
enters the city. The walls must not be breached, defend
it with your lives. Now, go.” The weak general left in a
hurry.
The young king has finally decided to make his plans
open. He wanted this and provoked me to get it. He has
come to finish what his father started but what he is
yet to know is that; this battle was his father’s last
and it will ultimately be his last too. I left the courts
and moved to my chambers as soldiers were busy
gathering the able men they could find among the few
in the land. The people might not have been preparing
for a battle but I have always wanted this for a long
time now. I dismissed the guards and closed my doors
as I sought to summon one of my trusted few – Rachel.
***************************************
LUCIEN
**************************************
“Lucien, do not do this. Think over this thoroughly; do
not start this war.” The old wizard pleaded.
“Do not start now, old man. I should have destroyed
those ungrateful animals a long time ago. How could
that waste of a king come after my subjects, not just
any but the one who has gifts that rivals mine? That
singular act of his has clearly stated his intentions; he
wants my throne. I have been negligent enough to even
allow such thoughts survive a day, I won’t watch him
create another path to end my reign. He and his
subjects will receive my full wrath. Get the legions
ready, I want that kingdom and everything within it
burnt to the ground. No one moves against me and
lives, no one.” I screamed and the old man quickly got
to work.
I have tolerated so much nonsense from him; I won’t
listen to another of his warnings as they never hold
water. My father might have died fighting this
kingdom but that happened because he decided to put
his trust in the wrong hands. The foolish old wizard,
Melfisius is once again involved and now I know for
certain he had a hand in the death of my father. I
won’t let this bold move of his to end me go unpunished,
I will makes sure he joins my father in the underworld.
The wizard is the backbone of that old swine and killing
him will break down his master’s resolve.
“Send for the gordands.” I ordered one of the guards
in the court. They soon arrived in their usual dress.
“What does my king want of us?” Tasha, the leader of
the deadly women asked.
“I have called for the legions to head north with
Elphisius leading them. The men of steel and magic will
destroy and plunder whatever they deem fit but I need
four of you to go after the wizard, Melfisius. I want
him in chains right here in my palace. I want to see his
treacherous face again before I lead him through the
path of pain. The remaining five of you will remain
here. Pick among yourselves who will go after the
wizard and who will stay. Do that quickly, time is of the
essence.”
***************************************
THE UNKNOWN
**************************************
I called out to the darkness with a spell created by
Melfisius, after covering every space light could enter
the chambers. I waited patiently in the darkness I
created for my summoning to be answered and it
happened. I heard her voice behind me but I didn’t
turn, I decided to go ahead with the discussion without
turning back.
“The situation must be dire for you to have summoned
me through this path. What is it, my king?”
“We have to move quickly, I didn’t expect the young
king to send more than half of his army. I am at the
disadvantage in all things save for you and our work.
Melfisius is presently useless but he might yet be useful
as time goes on but for now, we must hurry.”
“So, what do you propose?” “You know it already, I
need a diversion. Something that will halt the bringers
of death to my kingdom and the only way is whom I
have asked you to watch. Have you planted the seed of
discord within them?”
“Yes, I have. The mother guardian is focused on what
has no bearings while the man is torn between trusts
and words.”
“Good, very good; It’s therefore time for you to make
that seed a tree and allow the broken man fulfill the
prophecy. Reveal the truth to him this time and I will
take it from there. You have to be quick about it; we
have only until night fall tomorrow. Do not fail me now,
my dear.”
“I will die in service to my king, I won’t fail you.”
With that, she left through the darkness she came
while I walked to the windows and pulled the curtains
aside for the light to chase away it’ss eternal enemy. I
watched as the soldiers guided the people to a safe
tower but that won’t save them from the might and
wrath of the young king. Only one man has the power
to stop this; the one with the broken destiny.
******************************************
...... Sorry about yesterday guys, something came up. I
will update today again if I get the chance.
Anyway, I just noticed that it's been two months since I
started this story and it feels as if I am still
introducing everything. Well, that stops now. I will
speed up updates and that should see the story end in
about two weeks from now.
**************************
RACHEL
**************************
I shivered along with my parents in our little hiding
place just behind my bedroom, not because of the cold
but due to the agonizing screams of the unfortunate
ones who tasted the blood thirsty steel of Nero’s men.
The sound of steel cutting through flesh and putting
out the lights in such beings made me continue to wrap
my hands firmly around my father’s chest. My mother
kept on praying to the good spirits but that day; they
didn’t heed to her prayers because soon, the evil men
came into my room and my father forced my mother to
hold her tongue. They searched every place in the room
and found nothing but still they refused to leave which
made us uneasy.
“I can sense the presence of people in this room, keep
on searching. No one must survive this day.” I heard a
deep resonant voice say. Apparently, there were not
only soldiers but wizards among these men. How long
would it take before we were found?
It didn’t take long; the wizard moved along the hidden
wall where we hid and stayed for too long. We tried our
best to conceal ourselves and even held our breath at
some point but that didn’t hide us from the eyes of
this wizard. The moment we heard men trying to find
the way into the hidden place, we knew it was over. The
good spirits must have been unable to hear us due to
where we were praying from, or it was because my
mother stopped praying and so they turned their eyes
from us. They found the seal and pulled the door to
reveal us. The smiles on the faces of the men whom
were about six showed how much the orders of their
king meant to them. They went quickly for my father
and both I and my mother held firmly to him but we
were no match for these men. They yanked him from us
and while we watched, they slit his throat very slowly
and bent his head to a particular side to allow his blood
pour out like that of a sheep. I didn’t cry the way my
mother did and when they were done with my father,
they turned to my mother. I thought they would carry
out the same treatment on my mother but they had no
such thing in mind. While the battle raged outside our
house, something else was going on in my little bedroom.
They ripped open my mother’s gown and forced her to
go down like a beast. I turned away as I had an idea of
what was going to happen next as I was eight then but
one of the men held my head and made me watch as
the wizard brought out his long c.ock and pushed it into
my mother’s c.unt. Her screams from that one move
broke my heart and I didn’t know when I broke from
the man’s hold and pushed my weight against the man’s
moving rooster. He fell sideways as he was on his knees
when I hit him. My mother held herself but the man
couldn’t and his fall made his c.ock go limp and he
suddenly started screaming from pains even his men
couldn’t comprehend. How could a little push from a
little girl cause a wizard so much pain? But their
surprise didn’t stay for long because after one of them
asked the wizard for the cause of his pains and as the
man pointed at me; the rest of the men turned towards
me with rage in their eyes. The closest one to me
grabbed me by my long red hair and while my mother
tried to hold on to me; she received a strong palm to
her face that almost separated her head from her
body.
That singular action made me mad and I didn’t when I
faced the man who held me; I looked into his blue eyes
and commanded him from within to kill his fellow men
save me and my mother. He nodded and dropped me
gently to the floor and pulled his sword from his sheath
before running his it through the man closest to him.
The move shocked the rest of the men and before the
decided if they were going to attack their fellow
comrade or not, the man swung his sword and it met
the neck of one of them. The remaining three decided
that this man was no longer their own and came after
him. All this time, the wizard was on the floor
screaming in pains. While the men from the south
fought themselves; my mother regained herself and
took a knife which must have fallen from one of the
men and crawled to the foot of the wizard. She used
his calf to pull her up to him and before the man could
figure out my mother’s intentions, his c.ock had been
cut off from his body and my mother held the thing in
her hands. The wizard soon bled to death and the
bodies of the other men lay on the ground. The man I
commanded had finished what I asked him to do. He set
his sword on the floor and turned to face as he
expected his next orders from me.
My mother watched me in some fascination as I
beckoned for the man to go on his knees and told him
to get some food and clothes for us. He nodded and
left to get what I asked for. I crawled over to my
father’s still body and closed his eyes. I didn’t cry but
I vowed within me to get my vengeance that day.
The soldier from the south became our protector and
provider throughout the time of the war. When he had
served his use, I allowed him back to his town. That was
the first time I used my special kind of gift. I joined
the house of the king when I turned ten as one of the
few with the gift in the kingdom. The great wizard
Melfisius who was rumoured to have been one of the
men to have killed the wind of evil – Nero became my
teacher. He took special interest in me and taught me
on how to use my gift in even more unique ways. I
shared in the deep hatred for the North and soon I
became one of the few the king held in high esteem.
One night, just after I turned twenty years of age, the
king sent for me.
“Do you desire justice for what was taken from you?”
The king asked after he asked me to be on my feet
from my former position of greeting.
“Yes, my lord. It’s the one desire I have nurtured
within since childhood.”
“Good, then you will do what I want to be done.” I
nodded and he continued.
“You will go with one of the guardians who will be
coming in the three days to take a few of you lots to
the forgotten lands. I want you there because the old
wizard has seen in the stars that a man who will destroy
the works of the mad king will make that place his
home for a while. I want you there to watch him when
he comes and report back to me. That man will be the
beginning of our restoration to glory. Will you do this?”
The king asked.
I answered his question with a smile and returned to
get my things ready. Melfisius taught me the spell of
the demon’s walk which has been what I and king have
used in speaking to ourselves. Just as he said, the
guardian came and she was a very beautiful one.
“You are Rachel, are you not?” The fair woman asked.
“Yes I am, I am honored to have been selected to come
with you.” She smiled and said,
"I am Ellen Marcus, call me Ellen. Alright, we will be
leaving as soon as the sun is out. Go and say your
farewells to your families as you won’t be seeing them
for a long time.” She said to the three of us. That day
was the beginning of what I was about to finish now;
the restoration of the glory of my kingdom and the
unleashing of the true sword of vengeance. The
prophecy was about to be fulfilled as I headed for the
hunter’s room.
***************************************
RACHEL
**************************
I shivered along with my parents in our little hiding
place just behind my bedroom, not because of the cold
but due to the agonizing screams of the unfortunate
ones who tasted the blood thirsty steel of Nero’s men.
The sound of steel cutting through flesh and putting
out the lights in such beings made me continue to wrap
my hands firmly around my father’s chest. My mother
kept on praying to the good spirits but that day; they
didn’t heed to her prayers because soon, the evil men
came into my room and my father forced my mother to
hold her tongue. They searched every place in the room
and found nothing but still they refused to leave which
made us uneasy.
“I can sense the presence of people in this room, keep
on searching. No one must survive this day.” I heard a
deep resonant voice say. Apparently, there were not
only soldiers but wizards among these men. How long
would it take before we were found?
It didn’t take long; the wizard moved along the hidden
wall where we hid and stayed for too long. We tried our
best to conceal ourselves and even held our breath at
some point but that didn’t hide us from the eyes of
this wizard. The moment we heard men trying to find
the way into the hidden place, we knew it was over. The
good spirits must have been unable to hear us due to
where we were praying from, or it was because my
mother stopped praying and so they turned their eyes
from us. They found the seal and pulled the door to
reveal us. The smiles on the faces of the men whom
were about six showed how much the orders of their
king meant to them. They went quickly for my father
and both I and my mother held firmly to him but we
were no match for these men. They yanked him from us
and while we watched, they slit his throat very slowly
and bent his head to a particular side to allow his blood
pour out like that of a sheep. I didn’t cry the way my
mother did and when they were done with my father,
they turned to my mother. I thought they would carry
out the same treatment on my mother but they had no
such thing in mind. While the battle raged outside our
house, something else was going on in my little bedroom.
They ripped open my mother’s gown and forced her to
go down like a beast. I turned away as I had an idea of
what was going to happen next as I was eight then but
one of the men held my head and made me watch as
the wizard brought out his long c.ock and pushed it into
my mother’s c.unt. Her screams from that one move
broke my heart and I didn’t know when I broke from
the man’s hold and pushed my weight against the man’s
moving rooster. He fell sideways as he was on his knees
when I hit him. My mother held herself but the man
couldn’t and his fall made his c.ock go limp and he
suddenly started screaming from pains even his men
couldn’t comprehend. How could a little push from a
little girl cause a wizard so much pain? But their
surprise didn’t stay for long because after one of them
asked the wizard for the cause of his pains and as the
man pointed at me; the rest of the men turned towards
me with rage in their eyes. The closest one to me
grabbed me by my long red hair and while my mother
tried to hold on to me; she received a strong palm to
her face that almost separated her head from her
body.
That singular action made me mad and I didn’t when I
faced the man who held me; I looked into his blue eyes
and commanded him from within to kill his fellow men
save me and my mother. He nodded and dropped me
gently to the floor and pulled his sword from his sheath
before running his it through the man closest to him.
The move shocked the rest of the men and before the
decided if they were going to attack their fellow
comrade or not, the man swung his sword and it met
the neck of one of them. The remaining three decided
that this man was no longer their own and came after
him. All this time, the wizard was on the floor
screaming in pains. While the men from the south
fought themselves; my mother regained herself and
took a knife which must have fallen from one of the
men and crawled to the foot of the wizard. She used
his calf to pull her up to him and before the man could
figure out my mother’s intentions, his c.ock had been
cut off from his body and my mother held the thing in
her hands. The wizard soon bled to death and the
bodies of the other men lay on the ground. The man I
commanded had finished what I asked him to do. He set
his sword on the floor and turned to face as he
expected his next orders from me.
My mother watched me in some fascination as I
beckoned for the man to go on his knees and told him
to get some food and clothes for us. He nodded and
left to get what I asked for. I crawled over to my
father’s still body and closed his eyes. I didn’t cry but
I vowed within me to get my vengeance that day.
The soldier from the south became our protector and
provider throughout the time of the war. When he had
served his use, I allowed him back to his town. That was
the first time I used my special kind of gift. I joined
the house of the king when I turned ten as one of the
few with the gift in the kingdom. The great wizard
Melfisius who was rumoured to have been one of the
men to have killed the wind of evil – Nero became my
teacher. He took special interest in me and taught me
on how to use my gift in even more unique ways. I
shared in the deep hatred for the North and soon I
became one of the few the king held in high esteem.
One night, just after I turned twenty years of age, the
king sent for me.
“Do you desire justice for what was taken from you?”
The king asked after he asked me to be on my feet
from my former position of greeting.
“Yes, my lord. It’s the one desire I have nurtured
within since childhood.”
“Good, then you will do what I want to be done.” I
nodded and he continued.
“You will go with one of the guardians who will be
coming in the three days to take a few of you lots to
the forgotten lands. I want you there because the old
wizard has seen in the stars that a man who will destroy
the works of the mad king will make that place his
home for a while. I want you there to watch him when
he comes and report back to me. That man will be the
beginning of our restoration to glory. Will you do this?”
The king asked.
I answered his question with a smile and returned to
get my things ready. Melfisius taught me the spell of
the demon’s walk which has been what I and king have
used in speaking to ourselves. Just as he said, the
guardian came and she was a very beautiful one.
“You are Rachel, are you not?” The fair woman asked.
“Yes I am, I am honored to have been selected to come
with you.” She smiled and said,
"I am Ellen Marcus, call me Ellen. Alright, we will be
leaving as soon as the sun is out. Go and say your
farewells to your families as you won’t be seeing them
for a long time.” She said to the three of us. That day
was the beginning of what I was about to finish now;
the restoration of the glory of my kingdom and the
unleashing of the true sword of vengeance. The
prophecy was about to be fulfilled as I headed for the
hunter’s room.
***************************************
*************************
RACHEL
**************************
I blended in seamlessly among the guardians and it did
not take long for me to get used to every corner and
bend in the forgotten lands. The quarters were where
the more experienced guardians stayed and a few of
the wizards. They were few wizards and a handful of
witches as sorcery seemed to be the dominant gift
among the gifted here. I was told I was a witch the
moment Melfisius set eyes on me and the mother
guardian confirmed the same thing on the day of our
recognition as guardians. I loved my home and
harnessing and discovering more depths in my gift was
my greatest loss the moment I stepped into this land.
We were told not to show any of our gifts nor what we
have been taught over the years in the stone palace of
the king but should act like complete novices. We were
presumed to be unable to tell what side of the gift we
carried within us and the mother witch did the telling
for us. We were assigned to different guardians and
witches like me had just about two of these teachers.
Miss Ellen Marcus was one of the two; which made the
plans of what was to come very easy for me. She liked
me and cared a lot for me as I was a fellow witch like
her and was one of her findings. She taught me the
foundations of magic in my first few months there
before she moved to the complex ones. Her love for me
grew every day and when she kisses me as a way of
greeting, I began to wonder why she was so kind. The
other teacher wasn’t so kind and didn’t care if I learnt
whatever she taught me but she never missed a session
despite her uncaring attitude.
I went along with girls of my age and drowned myself
in what was common among the young and restless –
uncontrollable lust and pleasure. I slept with a
different man twice a month but soon I discovered
after my second year here that there was no new face
to stare into and no new c.ock to walk me on the path
of pleasure; I had slept with every man in the town.
There was no new discovery to be made. I stayed back
in my room and decided to read or watch one of my
teachers as I have been instructed to by my king. In all
my time fvcking and jumping on one c.ock to another, I
never saw even the shadow of the beautiful Ellen at
such places. The old, middle-aged and the young had
one point in time behaved like I did but not my teacher.
Could the rumours about her be true? Does she feel
attracted to her kind; after all she kisses me most
time like she would a lover. But it had never gone
beyond our mouth; she kisses and then goes back to why
she was with me in the first place. I haven’t seen the
lust or want for my body in her eyes; it was just the
look of love a mother would give her child. Something
must have happened to her for her to look at men with
so much indifference was my conclusion.
I decided to find out what and another time she kissed
after she ended one of our classes. I held on to her lips
and refused to pull away; my action made her open her
eyes and immediately, I entered her soul through them.
I saw her pain and bitterness; her tortures at the
hands of her uncle and cousins. Her losses and how she
lost a dear friend at the hands of the gordands; the
loss which brought her here to wait for the same man I
was here for and ultimately get the vengeance we both
wanted. I fell in love with her that day and whenever
we kissed, I tend to linger a little bit hoping she might
get my message but she never did.
The man I was sent to watch finally came and what an
entrance he made that day; calling forth lightening so
powerful, it destroyed the stone floor of the huge
compound. I was fascinated by what he did and when I
saw from my teacher’s mind he was still yet to
understand his gift, my joy knew no bounds. As the
weeks passed, I followed very instruction from my king
after he told me the man was unique just like I was and
I must be careful around him. I made my teacher
swallow my saliva one time she kissed and that enabled
my eyes follow her wherever she went. She reported to
mother about the progress of the man but they were
taking the wrong path. The man doesn’t need emotions
to call forth his gift; he was just like me and just wills
it out whenever he wanted. I twisted the story of the
man bestowed to Claudia, another guardian in order for
the hunter to have more reasons to kill the mad king
and my plan worked. His rage grew steadily but when I
discovered he trusted Claudia more than my teacher, I
treaded carefully as the man was quietly brilliant.
The night he slept with my teacher was the night I
realized how much power was in this man. While my
teacher searched hard to find out more about the
man’s strange gift, he was busy trying hard to find out
who was watching him through the beautiful woman he
was sleeping with. I fought really hard to keep him
from seeing me but he was relentless and if it wasn’t
for his release, I would have been caught. I cleaned off
the sweat on my face and warned myself to be more
careful next time.
My master summoned me a few days later and asked
me to do reveal the truth, the truth that would change
the tidings of the forthcoming war. I waited till when
the sun hid behind the clouds and went into the
quarters to find the hunter. He was at the gardens
watching the beautiful plants; I got close to him and
asked for the whereabouts of my teacher. He turned to
me and smiled and the moment he locked eyes with me;
I went into his mind. I planted the vision I intended to
and walked towards the direction he said I would find
her. I walked towards the route and turned back to see
if he was still watching me but he wasn’t as he took
more interest in the flowers; I had completed my work.
It was time to rest as I took a left turn and walked
towards town to get my hole filled up again.
************************************
KIERAN
***************************************
Claudia kept avoiding me whenever she sees me and
during her time of teachings, she would stare at the
burning wood and then leave as soon as her session was
over. I couldn’t tell what was wrong because I didn’t
know what caused her to change her attitude towards
me. I ignored her and tried my best to see through the
wall in Ellen’s mind but no matter how hard I tried, I
was unable to see through. We got closer and our
teaching session became more than just practice of
magic but of the flesh too. I saw less and less of
Vanessa but I knew her eyes were on me. After our
practice of flesh magic, I went to the gardens to look
at the flowers where I tend to clear my mind. A young
woman approached me seeking for Ellen; I pointed to
the quarters where she was likely to be. She thanked
me and left. She was beautiful with fair skin and
unusual dark green eyes; I turned my gaze from her
and returned my eyes to the flowers. After some time,
I hard this urge to sleep and promptly found my way to
my room. I was asleep even before my body hit my bed.
I saw myself back at my cabin; I looked around and saw
three women in tight, black, leather cloth. Behind them
were two soldiers dressed in the attire of those from
the south and in their midst was a tall man in a cloak.
The women broke the door into my cabin and brought
out my daughter. I saw them drop her roughly on the
ground; my wife came out pleading for them to leave
the poor child but she got a vicious kick from one of
the women which sealed her mouth. The women dragged
my wife away from her little daughter and the men
came forward and held my shivering daughter in place.
The man in the cloak came forward and put his hands on
Mellissa’s chest and immediately she started screaming.
Her screams tore through my heart and I wished I could
help her but I couldn’t. My wife tried to help our
daughter but she kept on receiving hits upon hits from
the gordands. After a while, her screaming stopped;
the man in cloak stood to his full height and motioned
for the women to follow him. The soldiers walked up to
my wife and pulled her away from her still daughter.
One of them held her down while the other ripped open
her trouser around her hole and slid his c.ock in. My
rage kept rising and rising seeing these men rape
destroy my family while I was away hunting. The second
soldier took the place of the other and put his dirty
c.ock into my wife’s c.unt too. All this time, the man in
the cloak watched while the gordands kept laughing and
chuckling to the screams of my wife. When the soldiers
were done with my wife; they walked to a cart and
brought out tar. They poured it all over my cabin and
threw my daughter inside. A simple flame from the
man in the cloak set the wooden house in flames. My
wife crawled with the little strength she had to try
and get our daughter but stopped when the house went
up in flames. The man in cloak removed his covering and
it was no other than Lucien himself.
The soldiers dragged my wife to a tree as they planned
to hang her but two of the gordands said they would do
it instead. The flames made me see the faces of the
people who killed my family but I became weak when I
realized that one of the two women who kept my wife
beneath a tree was Vanessa. I opened my eyes to
discover it was morning already; I was filled with both
rage and disgust. I had slept with my wife’s killer; how
my wife will hate me now in the underworld. Claudia was
right; I should be ashamed of myself. I turned on the
bed and faced the wall as I wept uncontrollably.
****************************************
RACHEL
**************************
I blended in seamlessly among the guardians and it did
not take long for me to get used to every corner and
bend in the forgotten lands. The quarters were where
the more experienced guardians stayed and a few of
the wizards. They were few wizards and a handful of
witches as sorcery seemed to be the dominant gift
among the gifted here. I was told I was a witch the
moment Melfisius set eyes on me and the mother
guardian confirmed the same thing on the day of our
recognition as guardians. I loved my home and
harnessing and discovering more depths in my gift was
my greatest loss the moment I stepped into this land.
We were told not to show any of our gifts nor what we
have been taught over the years in the stone palace of
the king but should act like complete novices. We were
presumed to be unable to tell what side of the gift we
carried within us and the mother witch did the telling
for us. We were assigned to different guardians and
witches like me had just about two of these teachers.
Miss Ellen Marcus was one of the two; which made the
plans of what was to come very easy for me. She liked
me and cared a lot for me as I was a fellow witch like
her and was one of her findings. She taught me the
foundations of magic in my first few months there
before she moved to the complex ones. Her love for me
grew every day and when she kisses me as a way of
greeting, I began to wonder why she was so kind. The
other teacher wasn’t so kind and didn’t care if I learnt
whatever she taught me but she never missed a session
despite her uncaring attitude.
I went along with girls of my age and drowned myself
in what was common among the young and restless –
uncontrollable lust and pleasure. I slept with a
different man twice a month but soon I discovered
after my second year here that there was no new face
to stare into and no new c.ock to walk me on the path
of pleasure; I had slept with every man in the town.
There was no new discovery to be made. I stayed back
in my room and decided to read or watch one of my
teachers as I have been instructed to by my king. In all
my time fvcking and jumping on one c.ock to another, I
never saw even the shadow of the beautiful Ellen at
such places. The old, middle-aged and the young had
one point in time behaved like I did but not my teacher.
Could the rumours about her be true? Does she feel
attracted to her kind; after all she kisses me most
time like she would a lover. But it had never gone
beyond our mouth; she kisses and then goes back to why
she was with me in the first place. I haven’t seen the
lust or want for my body in her eyes; it was just the
look of love a mother would give her child. Something
must have happened to her for her to look at men with
so much indifference was my conclusion.
I decided to find out what and another time she kissed
after she ended one of our classes. I held on to her lips
and refused to pull away; my action made her open her
eyes and immediately, I entered her soul through them.
I saw her pain and bitterness; her tortures at the
hands of her uncle and cousins. Her losses and how she
lost a dear friend at the hands of the gordands; the
loss which brought her here to wait for the same man I
was here for and ultimately get the vengeance we both
wanted. I fell in love with her that day and whenever
we kissed, I tend to linger a little bit hoping she might
get my message but she never did.
The man I was sent to watch finally came and what an
entrance he made that day; calling forth lightening so
powerful, it destroyed the stone floor of the huge
compound. I was fascinated by what he did and when I
saw from my teacher’s mind he was still yet to
understand his gift, my joy knew no bounds. As the
weeks passed, I followed very instruction from my king
after he told me the man was unique just like I was and
I must be careful around him. I made my teacher
swallow my saliva one time she kissed and that enabled
my eyes follow her wherever she went. She reported to
mother about the progress of the man but they were
taking the wrong path. The man doesn’t need emotions
to call forth his gift; he was just like me and just wills
it out whenever he wanted. I twisted the story of the
man bestowed to Claudia, another guardian in order for
the hunter to have more reasons to kill the mad king
and my plan worked. His rage grew steadily but when I
discovered he trusted Claudia more than my teacher, I
treaded carefully as the man was quietly brilliant.
The night he slept with my teacher was the night I
realized how much power was in this man. While my
teacher searched hard to find out more about the
man’s strange gift, he was busy trying hard to find out
who was watching him through the beautiful woman he
was sleeping with. I fought really hard to keep him
from seeing me but he was relentless and if it wasn’t
for his release, I would have been caught. I cleaned off
the sweat on my face and warned myself to be more
careful next time.
My master summoned me a few days later and asked
me to do reveal the truth, the truth that would change
the tidings of the forthcoming war. I waited till when
the sun hid behind the clouds and went into the
quarters to find the hunter. He was at the gardens
watching the beautiful plants; I got close to him and
asked for the whereabouts of my teacher. He turned to
me and smiled and the moment he locked eyes with me;
I went into his mind. I planted the vision I intended to
and walked towards the direction he said I would find
her. I walked towards the route and turned back to see
if he was still watching me but he wasn’t as he took
more interest in the flowers; I had completed my work.
It was time to rest as I took a left turn and walked
towards town to get my hole filled up again.
************************************
KIERAN
***************************************
Claudia kept avoiding me whenever she sees me and
during her time of teachings, she would stare at the
burning wood and then leave as soon as her session was
over. I couldn’t tell what was wrong because I didn’t
know what caused her to change her attitude towards
me. I ignored her and tried my best to see through the
wall in Ellen’s mind but no matter how hard I tried, I
was unable to see through. We got closer and our
teaching session became more than just practice of
magic but of the flesh too. I saw less and less of
Vanessa but I knew her eyes were on me. After our
practice of flesh magic, I went to the gardens to look
at the flowers where I tend to clear my mind. A young
woman approached me seeking for Ellen; I pointed to
the quarters where she was likely to be. She thanked
me and left. She was beautiful with fair skin and
unusual dark green eyes; I turned my gaze from her
and returned my eyes to the flowers. After some time,
I hard this urge to sleep and promptly found my way to
my room. I was asleep even before my body hit my bed.
I saw myself back at my cabin; I looked around and saw
three women in tight, black, leather cloth. Behind them
were two soldiers dressed in the attire of those from
the south and in their midst was a tall man in a cloak.
The women broke the door into my cabin and brought
out my daughter. I saw them drop her roughly on the
ground; my wife came out pleading for them to leave
the poor child but she got a vicious kick from one of
the women which sealed her mouth. The women dragged
my wife away from her little daughter and the men
came forward and held my shivering daughter in place.
The man in the cloak came forward and put his hands on
Mellissa’s chest and immediately she started screaming.
Her screams tore through my heart and I wished I could
help her but I couldn’t. My wife tried to help our
daughter but she kept on receiving hits upon hits from
the gordands. After a while, her screaming stopped;
the man in cloak stood to his full height and motioned
for the women to follow him. The soldiers walked up to
my wife and pulled her away from her still daughter.
One of them held her down while the other ripped open
her trouser around her hole and slid his c.ock in. My
rage kept rising and rising seeing these men rape
destroy my family while I was away hunting. The second
soldier took the place of the other and put his dirty
c.ock into my wife’s c.unt too. All this time, the man in
the cloak watched while the gordands kept laughing and
chuckling to the screams of my wife. When the soldiers
were done with my wife; they walked to a cart and
brought out tar. They poured it all over my cabin and
threw my daughter inside. A simple flame from the
man in the cloak set the wooden house in flames. My
wife crawled with the little strength she had to try
and get our daughter but stopped when the house went
up in flames. The man in cloak removed his covering and
it was no other than Lucien himself.
The soldiers dragged my wife to a tree as they planned
to hang her but two of the gordands said they would do
it instead. The flames made me see the faces of the
people who killed my family but I became weak when I
realized that one of the two women who kept my wife
beneath a tree was Vanessa. I opened my eyes to
discover it was morning already; I was filled with both
rage and disgust. I had slept with my wife’s killer; how
my wife will hate me now in the underworld. Claudia was
right; I should be ashamed of myself. I turned on the
bed and faced the wall as I wept uncontrollably.
****************************************
**************************
ANNA
**************************
Using both women as my eyes didn’t feel morally right
but I had to do what was necessary just to quench the
fears I might have of the hunter. He feels closer to
Claudia probably because they were together all
through their struggles to get here but still she has
been unable to give me anything meaningful. She was
always complaining about this mask he puts on whenever
he was with anyone. She was right in what she said but
he acts the way towards me whenever he is with me. I
needed to use some other way to get to him and Ellen
seemed more interested in the man than she should be.
I took notice of the way and manner he looks at her;
clearly there was an attraction between the both of
them.
I told her of her new duty of being more than just a
teacher and she was more than eager to carry out my
instructions. She kept telling me what I already knew
about the man but just a few days ago she told what I
should known before now. No man of flesh and blood
could have both sides of the gift within them anymore
after the wizards of old; empowered by the good spirits
saw to it that no one would. I should have known that
his gift was never unlocked; he was still an ungifted
just as those before him. The riddle his little daughter
spoke of was the path the good spirits tried to use to
tell me. Kieran is possessed by a spirit of one of those
gifted wizards of old and the same might be true for
Lucien. The riddle of the little can well be interpreted
as;
The hand that pulls the string must be referring to the
role of the good spirits in all of this of which I am not
certain of yet as I do not know all of the persons
involved. The arrow that kills the game has to be Kieran
and his unusual gift. It can’t be Lucien as he has done
more than good with his gift. The mystery is the game
that can’t be seen. What is the role of the good spirits
and the strange form of the gift in Kieran? What is it
they are trying so hard to prevent from happening?
I was still deep in my thoughts when I heard noises
from the space in the huge compound and then I saw
lightening descend in an unusual manner but returned
to the skies from whence it came. What was happening?
***************************************
CLAUDIA
**************************************
Why would Ellen lie? It was quite unnecessary for her
to. I never knew she met Eric and Kieran has no
relationship with him, so why use such a person to gain
anything? What was it she was trying to do, bring
Kieran and me closer or try to bring out something in
Kieran? I tried hard to answer these questions but my
mind wasn’t really focused on that, it was more
interested in why Kieran did what he just did – wash me
as my husband or mother would. The past few days I
locked myself in has been more of a reflection as I
mourned not just for Eric but for everyone who had
hope in Kieran being our savior.
The man is despicable; how can he keep doing what he
keeps on doing – insulting the memories of his daughter
and wife. This is a man whom we have waited for years
to deliver us from the tyranny of the mad king and
even when this man went against his family, he still
doesn’t feel the need to fulfill his destiny. He is more
interested in sleeping with every beautiful woman that
comes his way. He keeps going after the people he is
warned to stay away from. I hated this man but now I
don’t what I feel for him exactly after the kind
gesture he just showed me. He washed my body and
wore me my clothes. He saw my unclothedness;
something Eric saw a handful of times before he left
me. I should have fought him and prevented him from
seeing what only Eric had seen but I couldn’t. I have
always felt weak in his presence and when he moved his
hands across my skin, deep within me, I wanted it to
continue. I thought Kieran was irrational and behaved
like a dog but the way and manner he washed and
clothed me without getting a stir in his c.ock proved me
wrong. He was a man after something and he will do
anything to what it is that he is after.
I couldn’t answer his questions on Ellen and he left
after he saw I was slowly falling asleep. He carried me
and kept me on the bed before covering me with a
blanket. He stared at me till I closed my eyes but I wish
he could kiss me and he did. He kissed my forehead and
whispered for me to dream of my Eric.
***************************************
I was forced to wake up after I felt something
extremely powerful magic. The strange aura seemed to
stop me from breathing, I looked around to see if
someone was in my room but there was no one. I heard
noises outside and looked through my window to find
Kieran arguing furiously with Ellen. He was visibly
enraged and I wasn’t surprised the aura was from him.
His rage was about to be let loosed but on who? This
time, there was an answer to my question. Kieran
pushed Ellen away from him and then tried to mount
his horse but Ellen wouldn’t let him. Then, I saw Mother
run out, something that rarely happens and some other
guardians. Kieran was leaving but to where? Vanessa
came out of her room too and the moment Kieran saw
her; I felt it. I felt the keys break and the cage open.
Kieran released himself to his rage; he had finally
become one with his gift.
ANNA
**************************
Using both women as my eyes didn’t feel morally right
but I had to do what was necessary just to quench the
fears I might have of the hunter. He feels closer to
Claudia probably because they were together all
through their struggles to get here but still she has
been unable to give me anything meaningful. She was
always complaining about this mask he puts on whenever
he was with anyone. She was right in what she said but
he acts the way towards me whenever he is with me. I
needed to use some other way to get to him and Ellen
seemed more interested in the man than she should be.
I took notice of the way and manner he looks at her;
clearly there was an attraction between the both of
them.
I told her of her new duty of being more than just a
teacher and she was more than eager to carry out my
instructions. She kept telling me what I already knew
about the man but just a few days ago she told what I
should known before now. No man of flesh and blood
could have both sides of the gift within them anymore
after the wizards of old; empowered by the good spirits
saw to it that no one would. I should have known that
his gift was never unlocked; he was still an ungifted
just as those before him. The riddle his little daughter
spoke of was the path the good spirits tried to use to
tell me. Kieran is possessed by a spirit of one of those
gifted wizards of old and the same might be true for
Lucien. The riddle of the little can well be interpreted
as;
The hand that pulls the string must be referring to the
role of the good spirits in all of this of which I am not
certain of yet as I do not know all of the persons
involved. The arrow that kills the game has to be Kieran
and his unusual gift. It can’t be Lucien as he has done
more than good with his gift. The mystery is the game
that can’t be seen. What is the role of the good spirits
and the strange form of the gift in Kieran? What is it
they are trying so hard to prevent from happening?
I was still deep in my thoughts when I heard noises
from the space in the huge compound and then I saw
lightening descend in an unusual manner but returned
to the skies from whence it came. What was happening?
***************************************
CLAUDIA
**************************************
Why would Ellen lie? It was quite unnecessary for her
to. I never knew she met Eric and Kieran has no
relationship with him, so why use such a person to gain
anything? What was it she was trying to do, bring
Kieran and me closer or try to bring out something in
Kieran? I tried hard to answer these questions but my
mind wasn’t really focused on that, it was more
interested in why Kieran did what he just did – wash me
as my husband or mother would. The past few days I
locked myself in has been more of a reflection as I
mourned not just for Eric but for everyone who had
hope in Kieran being our savior.
The man is despicable; how can he keep doing what he
keeps on doing – insulting the memories of his daughter
and wife. This is a man whom we have waited for years
to deliver us from the tyranny of the mad king and
even when this man went against his family, he still
doesn’t feel the need to fulfill his destiny. He is more
interested in sleeping with every beautiful woman that
comes his way. He keeps going after the people he is
warned to stay away from. I hated this man but now I
don’t what I feel for him exactly after the kind
gesture he just showed me. He washed my body and
wore me my clothes. He saw my unclothedness;
something Eric saw a handful of times before he left
me. I should have fought him and prevented him from
seeing what only Eric had seen but I couldn’t. I have
always felt weak in his presence and when he moved his
hands across my skin, deep within me, I wanted it to
continue. I thought Kieran was irrational and behaved
like a dog but the way and manner he washed and
clothed me without getting a stir in his c.ock proved me
wrong. He was a man after something and he will do
anything to what it is that he is after.
I couldn’t answer his questions on Ellen and he left
after he saw I was slowly falling asleep. He carried me
and kept me on the bed before covering me with a
blanket. He stared at me till I closed my eyes but I wish
he could kiss me and he did. He kissed my forehead and
whispered for me to dream of my Eric.
***************************************
I was forced to wake up after I felt something
extremely powerful magic. The strange aura seemed to
stop me from breathing, I looked around to see if
someone was in my room but there was no one. I heard
noises outside and looked through my window to find
Kieran arguing furiously with Ellen. He was visibly
enraged and I wasn’t surprised the aura was from him.
His rage was about to be let loosed but on who? This
time, there was an answer to my question. Kieran
pushed Ellen away from him and then tried to mount
his horse but Ellen wouldn’t let him. Then, I saw Mother
run out, something that rarely happens and some other
guardians. Kieran was leaving but to where? Vanessa
came out of her room too and the moment Kieran saw
her; I felt it. I felt the keys break and the cage open.
Kieran released himself to his rage; he had finally
become one with his gift.
**************************
ELLEN
**************************
Mother felt what I told her had no meaning just as it
didn’t to me. Kieran’s gift made no sense and after
trying the past few days to make meaning out of it
and failed, I had to pass it to one more experienced
than I was but she was just as confused as I was too.
Well, I have carried out the assignment given to me and
I felt it was time I looked into what was going between
me and the hunter. Since the day he made love to me,
we have strangely become closer. I now long for his
teaching sessions and when with my other children, all I
can think of is Kieran. My dreams have centered on our
love making sessions. The warmth of his mouth; the
movement of his tongue, the tingling sensation I get
whenever his hands dance over my skin, the look in his
eyes as he goes in and out of me, the connection I feel
whenever I am on top of him and the yearn for more
whenever we are both done, has gone a long way in
making forget my past and tortures. I sleep now as I
should and most times, he sleeps in my room. Our
sessions have become less of teaching and more of
silent moans and groans.
Each time we fvck, I try to know him better through
his gift but it’s seems the more I go deeper into him,
the more his gift moves away from me. I have only
being able to see his gift from a distance and it is in
him but it is trying to fuse itself with Kieran. So, if it
is not one with the hunter, why is so easy for Kieran to
use it or call it forth as he tends to describe it? I have
never met someone so deep and difficult to understand
like Kieran, he was just so strange. One moment, you
think you understand a part of him, the next moment,
you realize you doubt what you previously know. I feel
his rage each time he is inside me but it’s like his gift
was the one actually building it up and not Kieran.
Which means that it was waiting for Kieran to finally
see the need to unleash his rage but that itself was
strange. No gift has a mind of its own, as a gift is
more a part of one’s mind and body, which is why when
it is forcefully removed from its original owner, it is
instant death for the owner. If Kieran’s gift has a
mind of its own, it will explain why he says he calls out
to it which makes him Imagine what he wants to carry
out rather than use spells and words to manipulate his
gift in carrying out his wishes. It means his gift wasn’t
something born with him as it is still not part of him
but one of another deposited in him by the good spirits.
It’s why he is never really interested in the teachings
on spells he is being taught but rather picks up interest
when it is teachings on being one with his gift. This is
the reason he has been here all along; to learn how to
be one with this being inside him and also to find the
right motivation to get his vengeance. Kieran is
possessed by another being and I hope that being is out
for good and not evil.
I couldn’t sleep all through the night as who Kieran is
finally made meaning to me. I couldn’t wait for the
morning so that I could tell mother but I had to put my
mind off that as I felt my skin tingle in a very painful
sensation from the aura of a wizard. I have never felt
so much power flowing from a single person before, it
felt like the air was about to crackle and burst into
flames. This aura was pure, violent rage, and if let
loosed will bring about so much destruction. I got up
from my bed and quickly opened my door to find where
this aura was coming from and I wasn’t surprised to see
other guardians in the passage way. They must have
felt the negative energy and were speaking in low
voices with a few pointing towards Kieran’s room. I
closed my door and decided to check what was wrong
with him. I was about to enter his room when he opened
his door; his eyes were swollen from probably crying but
that wasn’t what scared me. It was the look in them;
they were colder than I last remembered and had this
stormy look in them. His rage was trying to come out
but he was doing his best to save it for the right
person, but who was this person?
I moved back after I saw the look in his eyes, he looked
away from me and locked his door. He carried his bag
and moved towards the entrance of the quarters,
where was he heading to at this time of the morning? I
followed and called out to him but he refused to
answer. He came out of the building with me and other
guardians behind him. He saw one of the men patrolling
the compound and ordered the man to get down from
his horse. The man obeyed without putting up any
resistance. He was about to mount his horse when I held
to his trousers.
"Let me go, woman.” He ordered but I didn’t heed to
his request. He repeated the same thing and when he
saw I wasn’t ready to obey, he pushed me back with
quite some force. The owner of the horse held me from
falling else I might have injured myself from the push.
I was angry at what he just did and dragged him down
with everything in me after walking to the horse again.
“I won’t let you leave until you tell me where you are
going.” He looked even more furious after what I had
just done. He was about to answer me when he raised
his head and as soon as he did, I felt the air burst into
flames. Lightening so powerful and bright descended on
something. I turned around to see who and was
surprised it was on the gordand. But the lightening
turned back towards Kieran after it couldn’t harm the
beautiful woman and somehow he was able to send it
back to the skies from whence it came. I couldn’t
believe that a lightening so powerful couldn’t even tear
a fabric in the woman’s clothing but was only able to
knock her off her feet. His rage was finally let loosed
and from what he just did, it was plain clear that he
intends to go for Lucien and his men. He turned back
and mounted his horse heading for the huge gate. I
turned to look at the guardians and found mother
among them, a single look from her confirmed what I
had in mind. I was to follow the hunter and protect
him. I asked for a horse and it was quickly given to me.
I mounted it and left the forgotten lands without
clothes or food but was heading to the unsafe world to
get back my lover.
ELLEN
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Mother felt what I told her had no meaning just as it
didn’t to me. Kieran’s gift made no sense and after
trying the past few days to make meaning out of it
and failed, I had to pass it to one more experienced
than I was but she was just as confused as I was too.
Well, I have carried out the assignment given to me and
I felt it was time I looked into what was going between
me and the hunter. Since the day he made love to me,
we have strangely become closer. I now long for his
teaching sessions and when with my other children, all I
can think of is Kieran. My dreams have centered on our
love making sessions. The warmth of his mouth; the
movement of his tongue, the tingling sensation I get
whenever his hands dance over my skin, the look in his
eyes as he goes in and out of me, the connection I feel
whenever I am on top of him and the yearn for more
whenever we are both done, has gone a long way in
making forget my past and tortures. I sleep now as I
should and most times, he sleeps in my room. Our
sessions have become less of teaching and more of
silent moans and groans.
Each time we fvck, I try to know him better through
his gift but it’s seems the more I go deeper into him,
the more his gift moves away from me. I have only
being able to see his gift from a distance and it is in
him but it is trying to fuse itself with Kieran. So, if it
is not one with the hunter, why is so easy for Kieran to
use it or call it forth as he tends to describe it? I have
never met someone so deep and difficult to understand
like Kieran, he was just so strange. One moment, you
think you understand a part of him, the next moment,
you realize you doubt what you previously know. I feel
his rage each time he is inside me but it’s like his gift
was the one actually building it up and not Kieran.
Which means that it was waiting for Kieran to finally
see the need to unleash his rage but that itself was
strange. No gift has a mind of its own, as a gift is
more a part of one’s mind and body, which is why when
it is forcefully removed from its original owner, it is
instant death for the owner. If Kieran’s gift has a
mind of its own, it will explain why he says he calls out
to it which makes him Imagine what he wants to carry
out rather than use spells and words to manipulate his
gift in carrying out his wishes. It means his gift wasn’t
something born with him as it is still not part of him
but one of another deposited in him by the good spirits.
It’s why he is never really interested in the teachings
on spells he is being taught but rather picks up interest
when it is teachings on being one with his gift. This is
the reason he has been here all along; to learn how to
be one with this being inside him and also to find the
right motivation to get his vengeance. Kieran is
possessed by another being and I hope that being is out
for good and not evil.
I couldn’t sleep all through the night as who Kieran is
finally made meaning to me. I couldn’t wait for the
morning so that I could tell mother but I had to put my
mind off that as I felt my skin tingle in a very painful
sensation from the aura of a wizard. I have never felt
so much power flowing from a single person before, it
felt like the air was about to crackle and burst into
flames. This aura was pure, violent rage, and if let
loosed will bring about so much destruction. I got up
from my bed and quickly opened my door to find where
this aura was coming from and I wasn’t surprised to see
other guardians in the passage way. They must have
felt the negative energy and were speaking in low
voices with a few pointing towards Kieran’s room. I
closed my door and decided to check what was wrong
with him. I was about to enter his room when he opened
his door; his eyes were swollen from probably crying but
that wasn’t what scared me. It was the look in them;
they were colder than I last remembered and had this
stormy look in them. His rage was trying to come out
but he was doing his best to save it for the right
person, but who was this person?
I moved back after I saw the look in his eyes, he looked
away from me and locked his door. He carried his bag
and moved towards the entrance of the quarters,
where was he heading to at this time of the morning? I
followed and called out to him but he refused to
answer. He came out of the building with me and other
guardians behind him. He saw one of the men patrolling
the compound and ordered the man to get down from
his horse. The man obeyed without putting up any
resistance. He was about to mount his horse when I held
to his trousers.
"Let me go, woman.” He ordered but I didn’t heed to
his request. He repeated the same thing and when he
saw I wasn’t ready to obey, he pushed me back with
quite some force. The owner of the horse held me from
falling else I might have injured myself from the push.
I was angry at what he just did and dragged him down
with everything in me after walking to the horse again.
“I won’t let you leave until you tell me where you are
going.” He looked even more furious after what I had
just done. He was about to answer me when he raised
his head and as soon as he did, I felt the air burst into
flames. Lightening so powerful and bright descended on
something. I turned around to see who and was
surprised it was on the gordand. But the lightening
turned back towards Kieran after it couldn’t harm the
beautiful woman and somehow he was able to send it
back to the skies from whence it came. I couldn’t
believe that a lightening so powerful couldn’t even tear
a fabric in the woman’s clothing but was only able to
knock her off her feet. His rage was finally let loosed
and from what he just did, it was plain clear that he
intends to go for Lucien and his men. He turned back
and mounted his horse heading for the huge gate. I
turned to look at the guardians and found mother
among them, a single look from her confirmed what I
had in mind. I was to follow the hunter and protect
him. I asked for a horse and it was quickly given to me.
I mounted it and left the forgotten lands without
clothes or food but was heading to the unsafe world to
get back my lover.
CLAUDIA
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Why would Ellen lie? It was quite unnecessary for her
to. I never knew she met Eric and Richard has no
relationship with him, so why use such a person to gain
anything? What was it she was trying to do, bring
Kieran and me closer or try to bring out something in
Richard?
OK, I don get your time small. What has Richard in wolf
series got to do with Kieran and this story? You seems
to be mixing two characters from different storylines
together. Pls correct it as soon as you can. PM me when
you are ready with the other stuff.
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Why would Ellen lie? It was quite unnecessary for her
to. I never knew she met Eric and Richard has no
relationship with him, so why use such a person to gain
anything? What was it she was trying to do, bring
Kieran and me closer or try to bring out something in
Richard?
OK, I don get your time small. What has Richard in wolf
series got to do with Kieran and this story? You seems
to be mixing two characters from different storylines
together. Pls correct it as soon as you can. PM me when
you are ready with the other stuff.
