Book 3: Chapter 48
A/N: I remade the damn twitter. I posted pictures of Jeff, my cat, my graduation and some other stuff. @inuewindwalker is my handle on X. I was thinking I might make a facebook, but I don’t know how to make them separate from my personal one. Oh, and I got my old job back. I work at a hotel I used to work at before I graduated. I’d always done little prn things and such, and covered nights. I’d rather make less than lose my fucking mind.
Tiffany
“That Garbage in a tailored suit is higher than us…” Hissed his eldest. “How I still burn for him having the *audacity* to lord saving me over my head… I played nice and smiled when he was reborn… Then when the possibility of a new coven comes along, the master chooses *them*. A Failure, Sneak-Thieving, Light-Fingered Oath-Breaker that brings FLESH to our line, and a Commoner in a Fucking False Form He Does NOT DESERVE.” Telimier said that with full conviction… He’d say the same thing if he wasn’t compelled…
“Nadya is Right. We of old blood should stick with old blood… He fell in love with a quarter-dog because it can’t bark.” Hissed Hamier, the third son….
I remember… I remember changing that little shit’s diapers. There were no Huggles back then either, we had to wash that linin….
All four of his sons looked so defiant in their captivity…. I know he has more sons, but this will be a big blow to his coven.
“I… I cannot apologize enough… I could never bow low enough to ever ask forgiveness my little niece…. Those are not my children. Not after this...*Sin*…” Said Velimier. “Let me kill them myself.”
Gulteer stood there, radiating darkness, while his wife finally appeared to console him.
“My Husband not a step until you control your temper.” She hushed.
He spoke a language I did not know, nor could make heads or tails of.
“Do it.” Said Titafina. “Husband your blood pressure.”
He did not speak to her, he merely glared at her silently, and petted her hair. I don’t think he understood Romanian at the moment.
“I have no father. Not one who accepts such foolishness.” His first son bowed his head, ready for it to be lopped off. Telimier hated us that much, that he’d rather die than accept Yellow Diamond if he wasn’t the one running it….
“How selfish…. How narrow minded and underserving.” Said Velimier. “The master chose them over *you* because of your attitude. Do you hear yourself? Do you think you know *more* than the Horned One?” he marched to his son, and slit his throat with a summoned wand. “This is my fault…. I behaved as a spoiled brat… I behaved as a child, and it leaked to my children.”
“It is not.” Said Alteer. “They chose this path on their own…. He felt that way from the beginning… He admitted that much himself.”
“I don’t want to die.” Said Gellen, his second son….
“You should have thought of that before chasing glory not your own.” Said Velimier.
No one stopped him. He shed blood tears as he did it, but we let him kill them all.
“I’ll raise the body of the girl. I want more information. That Priest can burn their bodies upon a wooden Ring…Nanemous go collect the wood for Priest Hellsong. They will not be revived. Not this time.” Said Gulteer calmly… It was a false calm. His eyes were still dots. “Xombie… Rise. Xombie Tell.”
My mother’s cousin rose…
She disgusted me. It made me hate that we shared blood… I was raised by wolves… I visited Hellinia’s coven, and they welcomed me…I was stamped into Gulteer’s family book without a moment’s hesitation once I was married…. I was doted on and spoiled by my family, shielded from reality.
I was shielded from the fact that other magic casters saw me as less… That wasn’t their fault though… No one ever made me feel like this… not until today. I couldn’t rightly put a finger on what this feeling even was, just that I didn’t like it.
“Ex… Expledus.” Said her body. She blew her corpse up with what little control she did have.
I got covered in Spellmore’s guts…. I held back the urge to puke from the smell…
“Emerald Coven belongs to Lord Gray. Summon him.” Said Gulteer.
That was the Fifth Seat of Wolves… I don’t know what would happen… but we didn’t need war between the wolves and witches.
“We also need to summon the mortal village leader. He must answer for allowing his people to froth as rabid Headhunters.” Said Alteer…. He was still injured to, being recently revived… I knew he was faking being well… I could see through his illusion.
“Begone Tiffany. You don’t need to see what I do next.” Said Gulteer. With a wave of his hand, I was in my bathroom…
I didn’t want to see them burn anyway…
I was traumatized.
The clothes I wore plopped on the tile, and my phone was put on the top of the toilet after I cleaned it off.
The red water that went down the drain gave me flash visions of the calamity Theophania had caused…
So much death…
So many lives… So much screaming…
I’d been in the shower an hour now… I Think… I didn’t have my phone on me… nor did I want to get it until I was dry…
I let the hot water run down my back… It wasn’t hot enough, even though I felt like I was boiling….
The cleanup took a long time… I scrubbed myself until I was raw… I still smelled like bile.
“That’s enough.” Said Zayde, coming in limping, but the bathroom was still dirty… I wouldn’t leave all that to Mr. Cornwall.
“Get out the shower.” I almost yelled, but he fell over, slipping on Nadya’s blood. “Damnit!” I screamed.
“I just lost my balance I’m fine.” Zayde said truthfully. He struggled to get up, and I slipped and slid trying to get out to check on him.
“I got him.” Said Haru. He just casually came in here and helped him up. He didn’t seem the slightest interested in my naked form, which was nice, but I didn’t want him in here!
“Oy! You GET OUT!!!” I don’t think I’d ever been more embarrassed.
“It’s only flesh….” Said Aptherraam confused.
“It’s MY flesh I don’t want the world to see!!!!!” I yelled Flustered. “Get him and Get OUT!”
I got a towel and dried off. I slipped on a pullover nightgown and made sure he wasn’t faking it. This was stressful. With Zayde, Micael, and Alteer still healing, we were essentially at risk of another attack.
“Do you see that?” I said walking to the window
Gods the barrier was thin as maybe paper. It should be at least 5 inches thick…. Honestly 12 with a priest around.
“Can you wait?” Asked Zayde, concerned for my wellbeing, but knowing full well that I couldn’t. He was made to be in bed by Haru, and I was thankful he chose to continue to help…
“No, I can’t. Hekki’s injuries mean that she’s only faking she can handle this.” I said seeing him nod.
“….and grandfather disappeared to hunt down the Spellmores, Machiavelli, and Grentalia family members…. Velimier gave father half his energy, and it still wasn’t enough to move the castle, so BOTH of them are unable to manage a barrier… and my aunts hold barriers already. They won’t be able to thicken ours And maintain their lands too…” He admitted. “… And we don’t know who we can trust to have permission to manipulate the damn thing beyond a leader…”
“That’s why I WANT to help.” I said soothingly. “I won’t drain myself dry, but I will thicken it until I’m tired. I promise I won’t be reckless.”
“I can’t exactly argue with that… Just be careful.” He said quietly. We shared a small hug and a sweet kiss. I didn’t want to leave him, but I did need to do that. Now that it came to my attention, I couldn’t let it stand. That was especially the case now since we had to watch for threats within…
What a mess…
Never in the history of Dark Witches was there a traitor… We are all we’ve got. Even other witches hunted us….
There was also the fact that since I was really good with barrier magic, I could see how thin she had to make it to cover the entire grounds… Now that I was paying attention, I could see that some spots were so thin that I bet a gust of wind could shatter it.
I jumped out the window and my broom came before I hit the ground. I took one small flight around the barrier. I didn’t see any humans out there, but That was likely because Typhen was coiled atop the tallest tower…
He said nothing, but his watchful glare was a little comforting. It was a reminder that we still had *some* tricks up our sleeves…. I wondered if Paanix would mind sleeping in the ritual room? He can’t feed off witches, but I’m sure the Realm King would authorize his abilities to be used once the castle did get moved…
I was bitterly angry at them… But they were a wasp’s nest that got shook by Nadya… I hope she’s learning the errors of her ways right now. I shook my head. I needed to focus.
Black Diamond needs me to be a Leader, not a Child.
I gently landed my broom on the ground just in case it drained me too much. I would be manipulating two barriers now… I feed the one in Yellow every visit… now I have to feed this one too.
But I couldn’t let Zayde’s home coven be in danger.
I felt like I’d been fed on by a vampire, but it only took about 15 minutes to make a real barrier. A Hellsong could still break it, but with one here in a holding cell, I know they hesitate. The Church would want him back alive. It’s likely why they hadn’t made a move yet…
I felt cold, almost undead hands on my shoulders.
“Thank you, daughter.” Said Alteer… He looked half dead… His illusion was gone completely… He now held a gray lock of hair…. It covered his left eye slightly. It hadn’t reformed yet. In it’s place was a single red dot.
“What has the Church agreed to?” I asked.
“They wish to trade peace for the priest, but he does not wish to leave the castle… His own brother stabbed him in the back, yet is not in cuffs. Father Parez said he won’t leave until charges are pressed against him for it. That his brother will cause true, unfiltered war.” He said firmly.
“When will Lord Gray be here?” I asked.
“Heidi agreed to meet him at the Wolf King’s castle, and teleport here with a portal stone… So sunrise.” He said firmly. “This is a mess…. Entire lines of Earth Witches, the Wolves, and Humans are all conspiring at once… I fear I will be too late when I move the castle. I tried with Velimier and Andrei, but we couldn’t without me at full strength. The permissions to the land are connected to me…” he mumbled the last part.
“Then I knew I did the right thing.” I said with a firm nod.
That nod made me dizzy, but at least with my broom in hand, both of us hobbled back indoors. The teleportation pad was a godsend too. I didn’t have to climb flights of stairs… or wait for an elevator. I was just in my room…
I got in bed and snuggled my already sleeping husband… I had trouble getting to sleep, but come sunrise, I will have to deal with seeing my parents...
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