30

The Inevitable

The room was still. There were no sounds except for the continuous tapping of fingernails on a hardwood desk. Black nails impatiently tapping, the woman crossed her legs. Sighing from time to time, the black veins on her neck move as it pumps.

Her once-closed eyelids opened, revealing black eyes. She pats her long lashes, blankly staring at a crystal in front of her.

The crystal shows a woman whom they have been searching for so long.

No, scratch that. They were not 'searching' for the woman. They were 'hunting' her.

And at last! Elinor's face appears on the crystal after years of scouring the entire forest, searching for her whereabouts.

The woman interlocked her fingers, she leaned over the table, taking a closer look at the crystal when something caught her attention.

"A child... not one. But two. Oh! The Were-witch had brought children into this world? Great!" she exclaimed, sarcasm very evident in her voice.

Her dark-as-the-night eyes watched Elinor go on about he