Unearthed

“Sekreta. Can you hear me”

She isn’t moving, staring absent-mindedly, the air around her body radiating white light.

**” Is she okay, what’s happening to her “**

Cynthia scrambles towards us, her head is bleeding, a small trickle of blood now reaching her cheek.

“I don’t know, I’ve tried to get through to her but it’s like she can’t hear me”


Cynthia moves forward to touch her but stops her hand a foot away from her skin.

**” Can you feel that ?”**

“No feel what ?”

**” Just put your hand here. She is radiating power, I can feel the vibrations like tiny electric shocks”**

I raise my hand holding it by Cynthia’s, she’s right it feels like electric shocks. I stare at her in awe, she’s not moved it’s like she’s frozen in this state.

**” Artemis, I think we need to try and move her “**

I had forgotten about everything that was happening around us, the sounds of fighting seem so far away. Selene crawls towards us having managed to make it back to her feet.

**”*What the hell did she do to us, what’s wrong with her *”**

“We don’t know, and she seems stuck like this”

Selene's eyes focus on a spot behind her; she jumps over her in a second, taking down a large brown wolf heading our way. She is joined by Calder seconds later as he finishes the guy off.

As all of the background noise comes to the forefront, I realise that there is still a lot of bloodsheds. More wolves seemed to have gotten through the barrier than we realised.

“Cynthia. Please stay with her I need to help”

**” I’m not going anywhere now go”**

I ran towards Ryan, fighting alongside him. We end the fight swiftly sustaining very little injuries to anyone from our own pack. Heading back towards Cynthia I can see a small crowd has begun to gather around Sekreta.

All of them watching her and muttering under their breath whispering, wondering who and what she is. Selene heads towards them all standing in front of Sekreta, ordering them all to look away and leave.

They do not dare defy their Luna, all of them bow their heads and walk away. Although the muttering still continues.

Soon after there are only the 6 of us once more all of us surrounding her, she is still yet to move.

**”*Maybe we should try to move her*”**

“I’m not sure that’s a good idea Sel, I mean what if it does something to her”


**” Also her sister is still watching from behind that line, if she thinks we are hurting her she is only going to attack again”**

I’d almost forgotten what all this fighting was for. Turning my head I saw Savi’s glowing red eyes. Like two fires raging in the distance, she is mad.

“Your right, we need to move her. I’ve faced Savi once and I lost if she decides to attack again and Sekreta is out in the open”


**”*Alright fine let’s move her *”**

Before I can tell her to stop Selene has gripped hold of her arm. Her own eyes glowed green instantly, her body stood dead straight and up and rigid.

“Break them apart… we need to break them apart”

Calder doesn’t wait for me to explain why he grabs hold of Selena's arm and yanks it but she doesn’t budge.

There’s a flash of light and the two of them drop to the floor as Calder is flung backwards.
Selene and Sekreta are laying motionless on the ground.

The glowing bright light around her dissipated into the air and her eyes closed softly, Cynth rushed towards them both once more checking them over.

My eyes darted back towards Salvi, her wolves were retreating but she remained standing with a man both of them fixated on the scene. I could have sworn she smirked at me before she turned away and disappeared into the tree line.

**” We need to get them both inside, Sekretas breathing is erratic and Selene is gonna be pissed when she wakes up”**

No one disagrees with her instead Calder and Ryan lift the two of them from the floor and carry them inside.

Something stops me from following instead I keep focused on the tree line, unable to look away. Why did she come here tonight if not to continue her pursuit to get her sister back?

None of it makes any sense, I may have only met her for a short while but her nature is ruthless for her to leave and walk away even when she knows she is losing just doesn’t sit right with me.

Finally feeling as though I’m able to move I head towards the house, something on the ground caught my eye where Sekreta fell.

A small old looking book lay on the ground, it must have fallen from her pocket when she fell to the ground. Picking it up it's older than I thought, the edges are ragged and well used.

I remember when we spoke the night she ran into us, she mentioned she had stolen a book perhaps this was it. I place it in my pocket and head into the house.


**Sekreta**

“Savea, what’s going on where are we?”

There is a familiar beeping in the background; it's constant and dull. Everything around me appears fuzzy and blurry like a shroud of mist is sitting along the edge of every line.

The place is not familiar there scrunching my hands into a ball in an attempt to feel the ground beneath me but there is nothing, there’s no smell to the air to taste.

It's oblivion of nothingness.

“Savea can you hear me, what’s going on”

She doesn’t respond and a small pang of panic sets in the pit of my stomach. I could lay here and question what’s going on but it will be of no use and it won’t get me out of here.

Lifting my head off the ground I force myself to sit up. I am scared beyond belief every time I have found myself alone in this world I am terrified.

It’s not something I would freely admit, I can survive alone until someone offers me kindness, sure, but I have never been able to master living.

When I ran from Arlo it was out of desperation and a need to escape captivity and at the first sign of kindness, I accepted it. When Salvi told me she was my sister I was so desperate for a connection I believed her with every fibre of my being.

I believed she would do right by me, I believed when she told me that people would try to hurt me. I let her convince me that the only person who has ever shown me real kindness, the sort that comes from deep within wanted to kill me.

I have to fight my way out of this, whatever it may be for Artemis’s sake I owe it to her to be truly brave, the way she has been this whole time.

The accounts of the attack replay in my mind, the four of us needed to seal that rift even when her sisters questioned me. She didn’t, she believed in me and what I could do.

I can’t keep making those same mistakes, if I want to stay here with them I have to show them that I am worth it, that I’m worth their time.

Pushing myself up, I’m in some kind of woodland area but it’s dark and cold.

“Savea, if you are around, now would be a really good time to show up”

Walking deeper into the forest there’s still nothing but I need to find a way out. When I think back to trying to repair that seal then everything went blank, I felt warm like I was burning from the inside and now I’m here.

I walk aimlessly for what felt like hours, there really is nothing here and I can’t find a way out. Sitting down on the floor and taking a deep breath I try to work out what I was going to do next.

Pulling my knees into my chest I struggle to stem the impending flow of tears. I wanted so badly to not seem weak, I wanted to much to be able to rely on myself.

*” You know, you won’t find your way you of here sitting on the ground”*

My head snaps up as the sound of my mother’s voice comes from the darkness, like a wave of light she walks towards me.

“Mum?”

She doesn’t speak but continues to move toward me. She looks different, she is glowing and full of life. I haven’t seen her this way in so long.

“Mum, what are you doing here? What is this place?”

*” This is your escape Sekreta”*

“My escape, what do you mean what are you talking about, I don’t even know where I am”

*” This is the place where you would go when we were with him”*

She sits down on a chair appearing out of nowhere as if it is the most natural thing in the world for it to be here.

*” On our very worst days there, they would bring me back to the room. You would clean me up and tell me of our escape. You would describe the trees and the earth, the way it felt, what kind of plants were around. It used to help you escape the horrifying things that were happening around us.”*

I can’t help but stare at her in awe desperately taking in every word she is saying, the sweet sound of her voice is one I have missed and I don’t want to forget this.

“How are you here ?”

*” I am here because you needed me Sekreta. Do you remember what I said to you the last time they bought me back?”

I try to remember but it was so long ago and I’ve spent my entire adult life trying to forget those feelings, trying to block them out of my real life.

*” I told you although I would be leaving now, I will always be by your side do you remember?”*

It comes flooding back to me. Holding her in my arms as she was too weak to move the two of us desperate to not say goodbye but we both knew it was the last time, we both knew that she was not long for this world.

“I remember and then you said…”

*” I told you that you were special, I told you that no matter what you should stay hidden and keep what you can do a secret from anyone who asked”*

“I did, I swear it, I hid my powers every day from everyone”

*” I know you did and you are such an incredible Sekreta you have survived for so long, but you have to leave this place. There are people who need your help, they need you to join with them if they are to protect the boy from what’s coming”*

“The boy, what boy? What are you talking about”

*” Sekreta do you remember the story I would tell you when we were in that place, the story of my siblings “*

It is as though a lightbulb has flashed on in my head.

“You told me of your sister and of your brother, you told me that unlike the two of you you brother was born powerless”

*” Yes my brother Marel was born without powers, he would act as if he did not care. But my sister and I saw it in his eyes. The jealousy that builds up in him when we are small. He fooled our parents but not us”*

“But he died Mum, what does he have to do with anything”

*” He was the last boy to be born in our family until recently that is. Many thought that our bloodline was weakening but I fear he was undeserving”*

Until recently? The only boy I can think of is Frode but he is just a baby. Cynthia’s baby can't have anything to do with this; he is barely six months old.

“Frode is just a baby, are you saying something will happen to him”

*” Sekreta Arlo fought to take everything from our line, but the moon goddess had other ideas. When you leave this place you need to ask them”*

She stands from her seat and starts walking away so I rush to my own following after her.

“Ask them, ask them what? what are you talking about ?”

*” Ask them about the prophecy”

She disappears and the beeping in my ears gets louder and louder, a bright light growing from above me blinding me. I want more time with her.

I start frantically running after she calls her name, I have so many questions for her. I want to ask her if Dad is still alive. I want to find out who I can really trust but she’s fading, everything around me is Fading away. The beeping still growing louder and louder, numbing all of my other senses until she is gone and nothing is left.