Or are we being silenced?
I can’t scrape the filth from my skin.
I’m so dirty.
So unclean.
They are monsters.
Evil.
My poor sisters, I can never apologize enough.
She wrote of monsters as if they were all evil, as if they were all vile. She would have hated me.
The trees are weeping; I weep along with them.
I must be strong; I must carry on.
This isn’t about power anymore.
I met them today, today of all damn days.
They believe I betrayed them also.
I would never!
“Her Circle Mates were shifters, a Wolf pack I believe.” Ziel rasped behind me, making me jump and drop the journal with a thump to the floor.
I gave Ziel my death stare and bent down to pick the book up. The drag of his finger across my lower backcaused me to gasp, my Circle Mark tingling and moving as if reaching for more contact.
“Interesting,” he muttered.
I straightened up and pulled my top down to cover my back, glaring at him as I asked, “How do you know that?”
“The dead told me.”
Why was this man so infuriating! “Want to expand on that?”
He took his time reaching into his jacket and producing yet another smoke. He went to place it between his lips before I reached up and snatched it from him, squashing it in my fist as I kneeled on the love seat, clenching my hands over the back rest and said, “Enough. Stop dicking around and give me the fucking answers.”
His face hardened as he leaned down eye level with me, his green eyes glaring into my purple ones.
“Beg me for it, princess.”
Hell to the fucking no. I didn’t beg for anything. Ever. Who the hell did he think he was? I didn’t ask him to come back to the castle-he just came. I didn’t ask him to turn up at the Council-he did it out of his own choice. Yet now he was hinting at things I didn’t know and told me to beg for the answer?
I growled as I leaned further in and said through clenched teeth, “why are you here?”
“Why areyouhere?” He asked back, his breath warm and strangely minty against my face.
“What?”
He laughed and straightened up, pulled another smoke from his never-ending pocket and lit up and stared at me with slightly glassy eyes.
“Why are you here Dark Witch?”
“This is my mountain…apparently. Oh and I died. Now why the hell are you here?” I said flatly, annoyed and yet…slightly vigorated at the back and forth.
