hapter Two Hundred and Ten
The thought of living for centuries was as dreadful as it was… appealing. What would it feel like to live as long as the elders?
But the dreadful part was the loneliness that comes with eternal life; when you become too afraid to make bonds, because in the end they would all die. My gaze met Thane. He doesn’t exactly age fast, and so I still have a lot of time to worry about that.
I nodded to the sorceress. “Fine, I would go alone with your code or whatever it is.”
“Good. Now let’s get to work.” She placed her bag on the table, taking out an empty glass container and then a smaller bottle, the bottle was the size of my pinky; it contained a thick black substance, and next, she brought forth a knife so sharp I was sure if I moved closer I could see my own reflection on it, and finally she brought out an ancient book.
“Is that… the book of spells?” Axel asked.
“Yes, it is,” she answered with a small smile that states she didn’t expect Axel to know anything about that.
She poured some of the black substance from the tiny bottle into her hands, and then she approached me. “This would help with the pain,” she said.
“Is that like some kind of pain reliever?”
“That, but much more effective.”
She applied the liquid to my stomach. As if sensing what was about to happen, the creature in me grew restless, pushing at the walls of my stomach. I groaned in pain. Thane was beside me almost immediately.
“What is happening to her?” he questioned, I could hear the urgency in his voice.
“Soon, she would feel nothing,” the sorceress said before picking up the ancient book of ‘ spells‘ and muttering some more foreign words from the book, and just as she had said, the pain disappeared.
“I don’t feel it anymore.”
“Of course you won’t. I’ll prefer it if you look away.”
“I want to believe you know what you are doing,” Thane said.
“Of course.”
“Just so you know, if anything happens to her, you will not leave here alive.”
“It’s not a very good idea to threaten me when I have her life in my very own hands, Alpha and let’s say… I don’t die easily.”
She turned to me with the knife in her hand as she chanted the foreign words; “Discede ab ea,
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creatura noctis, filil diaboli,” she muttered. A gust of wind blew through the room. I watched. her cút me open and I felt nothing. Thane stood by my side, his breath hitched.
“Discede ab ea, creatura noctis, filil diaboli,” she repeated louder. The wind brought down some furniture this time, Thane stepped closer, his body positioning itself between me and the falling shards of glass.
I suddenly felt like my breath had been zapped out of me. Just then I saw the figure–not it wasn’t a figure–the demon took the shape of a black mist, a living, breathing, darkness. The room felt suddenly colder.
“May the abyss absorb you,” she whispered, trapping the creature in the empty vessel she brought along. “It is done.”
I stared at the bottle, mortified, that had been inside for me, and I had tried to save it.
“She needs to be stitched, she’s losing blood.”
“I’ll do it,” Thane said. Axel quickly rummaged through the drawers, taking out a needle and a thread.
“Here,” Axel said, passing the supplies to Thane who immediately went to work.
He was fast and efficient and I was stitched up in no time. I watched my storhach heal back, leaving only a bruise.
“It’s the thing you call ‘pain reliever‘, isn’t it?” questioned.
“I did tell you it does better than any pain reliever. You might be healed up, but you still need to feed to regain your strength.”
“I’ll go get you something to eat.” Axel says.
“Not food… she meant blood.” Thane corrected.
“Since this creature can’t be ‘killed‘, I’ll keep it contained,” she promised. “I do hope to see you again, Alpha,” she said with a small, scary smile.
“Thank you,” I said to her, but she was already gone.
“How do you feel?” Axel asked.
“Better than I had felt in weeks.” I replied, staring at my stomach, everything seemed to have gotten back to normal, well, excluding the fact that I was still sickly thin. “I don’t need blood. It might take some time for me to fully recover, but I don’t mind.
“You do need it, Riley.” Thane says bring his wrist to my mouth. I backed away.
“I don’t want this… I am afraid I won’t stop.”
“You will.”
“You put too much trust in me.”
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“Then Axel would be here to stop you, if I get too carried away.”
Thane picked up a piece of broken glass, easily splitting his skin with the sharp object.
“Be careful, Thane.” I warned, but he only smirked.
“Of course.”
He brought his wrist to my lips, his blood scented delicious, but I could hold back the want… I could control the bloodlust; I guess Nick wasn’t lying then. I leaned over, and my fang dug into his skin.
