More Darkness

JAVIER

It was a shock to me that I was standing right there, so close to her. I wanted to reach out and rip out her throat but my body would not let me do that.

I cussed inwardly, this was bad, by the looks of things she was the one responsible for what was happening to me, if I could just take her out, the spell or whatever the hell this was would be broken.

She was still smiling and had not yet answered the question I asked her earlier, I repeated it with much difficulty, the dark liquid that I was drowning in made talking very difficult.

“What the fuck do you want from me?” I said baring my teeth.

“There is no point in a puppet asking its master what the goals of the master are. Its job is just to obey wordlessly and move as the master pulls its string.” She said and laughed hoarsely.

I took another step forward, “I am not your damn puppet you sick witch, tell me how to break this spell.”

She stopped smiling and locked eyes with me, “Why the hell would I do something like that? I c