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The wind rushes through my hair as I breeze through the woods, Draaven just ahead of me. We hadn't even had time to call for a car or anything. I stare at his back as we zip through the trees. I've always dreamt of running wild like this with him, the wind in our clothes and hair, but not like this. I dreamt of running under the sunset and coming to a stop at a tent, having cozy dinner by a fire and going back inside to make love for hours, the smell of earth and wind still on our skin. We are running now alright, but it's to a murder scene. My thoughts always seem to flow better when I'm running and right now is no exception. I don't know the details yet because we hadn't even stayed long enough to hear them but apparently, Lord Rio, special adviser on family and home management had been murdered on an evening walk around his estate. Lord Rio who had spoken out against me at the meeting, Lord Rio who has made it clear that he wasn't my biggest fan. The chills enter my bone as I reali
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I don't wait around for the formality of being taken back home in a car. I take to my heels and zip through the woods, just as I had come with Draaven. The culprit…. they've found the culprit. My thoughts are haphazard. To say the least, I'm more than stoked to go see who the person is and hear exactly how they were caught. I wonder what I'm going to do, what my reaction is going to be. This person who has done an immaculate job of framing me so far, whose plans were to see me go down for crimes I didn't commit. Anger pounds through my veins as my feet fly over the earth. Heavens be blessed if I don't unleash on the person. I see the gates of the palace from the horizon and I seen to go even faster than ever. I'm home again. Night has already fallen and there's a bright crescent moon in the eye. I halt in my steps as I take I look up at the sky, at the moon. One day, many yars ago, when I had enjoyed one of the many evenings where my mum told me moonlight stories, she'd whispered to
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I'm pretty sure my jaw stays open for a good number of minutes before I remember to close them back. There are four gammas making their way in, two on either sides of her. She's dressed in a simple white dress, soiled all the way down the front with what seems to be blood. Her braid has come undone and her hair falls around her face in big, thick volumes so that I can't even see her face. The shackles around her wrists and ankles are huge and choppy, slightly tinged blue purple, indicating that they are not the usual shackles that just about anyone can get out from, the harder you try to tug against such shackles, the more they dig into your skin and leave traces of their poison behind. What exactly the hell is Edna doing in this position? She looks so tiny and frail in between them as she's being dragged in like a doll who weighs nothing. When they throw her forward, sending her screeding across the floors, I can't take it anymore. I push to my feet and rush forward, lowering myself
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Even when Edna hadn't denied committing the murders, a part of me had still been very desperate to believe otherwise. I thought to myself ‘But she couldn't possibly hurt a fly. She just simply doesn't have the means to’. I couldn't be more wrong. Being one of the top students of a top secret guild tells me all I need to know, and sadly, it also explains so much. “Was the young lady present with you at every single instance when the murders happened?”. The detective asks. My mind casts back to each time, the first time at the welfare centre with Euli….she had been there. The second time at the dinner with the ladies….she had been there. The meeting though…..when Rio had come for me, she wasn't present. Which begs the question, how the hell exactly did he end up dead? “Yes, yes she was”. I say shortly. A small murmur issues on the table and I see heads bent together as the elders discuss among themselves. This is not looking good at all. “The Luna has confirmed it. This young lady, by
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I hold my emotions in perfectly well all through my bath. I try not to think of Edna as I run the water for my bath which is usually her job, as I choose pyjamas for the night which is usually her thing, as I ignore the silence of my quarters which would have been filled with her voice on a normal day. Even when I come back out of the bathroom and meet the clothes I had taken off still on the floor where I left them, I hold it in pretty well. It's when I sit in front of the mirror to comb through my hair for the night that I finally come undone. I sit down on the chair, staring into the mirror. Slowly, I reach for the comb and run it's teeth through the wet strands of my hair. After the first comb, I subconsciously stare at my back, expecting to see her pop and take the comb out of my hands, stand behind me and comb through my hair gently while we talk about all the nothings. But that never happens. After I run the comb through a second time, I finally lose it. It starts out as a sob
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The day of the hearing finally comes and I make my way down to the board room, my heels clicking sharply on the tiles. Empty is an understatement for how life has been without Edna. At random times, it has felt like she's still around. A whiff of her scent here and there, her voice, her laughter…..I keep expecting to see her bent over the tub as she prepares my bathwater every morning. Sitting by the mirror to do my hair and makeup has become hell as I keep expecting to see her take the comb from me and help me with my hair. None of that ever happens. Once more I've lost a piece of my soul, and I'm not sure I'll be healing anytime soon. That's exactly the ideology I use in choosing my outfit today. I'm dressed in black from head to toe, a simple black dress, a black belt and shiny black stilettos. My hair is scraped back into a sleek, tight bun and my face is mostly bare. If it looks like I'm mourning, it's probably because I am. I walk into the board room to see that everyone is alr
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My head whips so fast in Draaven's direction. Death? Deathhhh???? There's a murmur of approval from the council on the table and it seems like everyone but me agrees with this decision.“Death?”. I ask, my voice filled with disbelief. I glance down at Edna and she's just staring at the floor not one emotion on her face. “Isn't…isn't that a little too much?”.“The suspect has left three families bereaved”. Draaven says angrily. “Someone has lost a daughter, a son, a father, a protector. The children of one of her victims are now fatherless. They are going to live all their lives missing out on a father's love. And paying her back in her coin is too much?”. The air deflates out of my body and I fall back to my seat in defeat. My mind casts back to the image of Rio's children on the day of his death, those two sweet girls who hadn't even known what was going on, his wife who now has to shoulder the responsibilities of a mother and a father while trying to be strong for her kids. It's tru
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I lay in bed for the rest of the day and cry my eyes out. Now that we are at this point, I suddenly realize that Edna and I never did take any pictures together. I wish I had thought ahead and kept memories of all the memories we had together. Sometime around 6pm, a gamma comes around to confirm if I will be honouring Edna's wish. It had taken me a minute as I had weighed my options. I've never really been in this position, a position where I've had to count down to someone's death with them. I don't know what to do, I don't know what to say to her. I'm mad she did what she did and put all of us in this situation, I'm sad that she never told me about what went on through her head, she never let me help her stop her actions, she never trusted me enough to. Even the basic things like her relationship with Adrian, she never told me. And now look where we are.After much contemplation, I had told the gamma that I'd be honouring the wish and he had told me that the feast would be by 8pm. I
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