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Alizeh took a deep breath and said, “All right I will come with you. I will help you save your father. It has to be better than what I am doing now.” “Wonderful. The storm is picking up, so we must leave now.”He pulled a small flask out of his bag, took a sip, and offered it to Alizeh. She drank the last few drops slowly and continued walking. She looked up at Orion, and he looked physically ill. She noticed that he was farther ahead of her, and suddenly he was gone as if ripped from the spot. The path seemed to stretch out before her eyes, and the forest around her seemed shaky. The forest started spinning faster and faster. The trees started to change to an image of a person. It Started blury, but cleared in seconds. She gasped, when she realized who it was. It was her father, and he was holding a belt. He somehow, still managed to inspire terror in her.. She started violently trembling. Just as fast as it appeared , the image changed.. She was now watching her town burn. People w
Genève stood at the window, looking out at her people. The filthy peasants worshiped her, but it was not enough. “Groll!” she shrieked at her head moron. He hurried into her chambers and glanced up, trying to gauge her mood. “Yes, My Queen?” he asked nervously, his eyes cast down, hoping not to provide with her any reason to be displeased. “Bring me Zeek. The time has come for us to have our little talk. Make sure he is shackled with the chains that make his magic useless. If he escapes, I will have your head!” She paced back and forth, running her fingers through her long crimson hair. She had been waiting for this day for twenty years. When she thought about all of the time and effort wasted on this little man, she became furious all over again. As she waited, she thought back to the day it had all begun. She could not believe how much had happened since then. Genève noticed Groll and Zeek coming down the corridor. She immediately stopped pacing, smoothed out the wrinkles in her
Alizeh and Orion to walked in comfortable silence. They were maintaining a good pace, and covering a lot of ground. Alizeh suddenly stopped walking. She said nothing. He sat by helplessly as her face went blank, and her attention drifted somewhere far, far away. He watched her staring into off in the distance, for what felt like an eternity. Finally, he had enough.He reached for her hand. It felt like ice. He shook her, and shouted, “Alizeh, are you ok?"She stood unwavering, rigid, and lost to Orion for, what felt like an eternity. He began to worry, maybe his dimension was too much for her. Was she going through some kind of shock, from existing in a world without magic her whole life? This realm wasn't the most magical realm in existence, but it certainly had enough of it to hold it's own. He was sure she had been frozen for at least an hour. In reality, only minutes had passed. Finally, she shook her head, and her face woke up - like she was coming out of a dream.Orion took her f
Alizeh, Orion, and Zeek quickly thanked Radof and bid him farewell. Zeek told them to all huddle together. He pressed his hand over Alizeh’s, on the staff. The wind began to swirl around them, and they slowly floated into the air. Before they knew it, they were safe and sound back at Zeek’s home. Zeek and Alizeh combined their powers and were able to put upwards so powerful that no unwanted visitors could pass through. If anyone tried, they would turn to dust.Zeek looked at Alizeh and Orion for a long time without speaking. They were sitting in the great room, gathered around the fireplace. He poured each of them a small glass of brown liquid. Alizeh accepted it gratefully and took a long swig, finishing the whole glass in one gulp. The men looked at her expectantly, and they could tell she was trying hard not to react to the pungent drink. Zeek laughed and said, “This is more of a sipping drink, Alizeh.” Orion quickly walked toward her and took her hand. All of a sudden Alizeh r
Alizeh sat by the fire with her mother and Isabella while Cade stood rigidly behind them like he was keeping guard. “What has happened to you since I left? When I left, I did it to protect you--all of you,” she said.Isabella looked at her sadly. “You could not have known what would happen after you left. Your father was furious when we couldn’t find you. He blamed your mother and me, saying we must be witches. That was his explanation for your disappearance, that we had done something terrible to you. "Alizeh covered her mouth, but the gasp was not silenced. Her mother took her hand and exhanged glances with Isabella. Their eyes had a conversation, while everyone else sat in silence. Finally Isabella shook her head up and down twice and Gwen nodded hers back, and turned her full attention back to Alizeh."Isabella and I went shopping in town. It had to be done, and it was a good excuse to get a break from his constant accusations. While we were out, he searched our rooms and found so
Trixie sat across from the brain-shrinking specialist, the one who seemed in charge. She had been here before, in a different time and another place, but she knew the drill all too well. Mention nothing about the hallucinations or the voices. Talk about addiction. People could get behind an addiction. It was something they could wrap their heads around. It was a problem they could tackle. The more normal she acted, the more complacent she behaved, the sooner she could return to her regular life. She smiled bashfully up at the physician, waiting for more queries.Dr. Jayden stared at her for minute after painstaking minute without saying a word. Trixie squirmed. This was a new strategy, and she didn't appreciate it.Finally, Trixie had endured enough. “Please ask your questions, ma’am. I am tired and would like to go to my room.”Dr. Jayden sighed dramatically and forced her seat backward. “Sweet child, why would I want to waste a single syllable asking you questions that I already kno
Zeek gave each person in the group a small glass of brown liquid, which Alizeh drank slowly. They all held hands and prepared for the shift. The world started spinning, and it hurled them into an open field. They looked around, wondering where all the trees were. As far as the eye could see, there were unrecognizable structures. Zeek explained to them that the buildings were people’s homes. “This realm is corrupted by richness and power. They always want more and are never satisfied. In this area, very few people recognize the beauty of nature. They are, in fact, on the verge of extinction because they have torn down all their natural resources to build more formations to make more money. They are just now beginning to realize that prosperity means very little when the things that they need are not readily available and cannot be bought,” he explained, shaking his head solemnly.The group walked on and noticed what Zeek called paved streets, sidewalks, and automobiles. They took every
Trixie sat in the common room, looking around. Most of the people in this place appeared muddled. They did not seem to possess the capability to distinguish right from wrong. The only exceptions were the staff. The friendly Dr. Jayden's aura was brighter than the rest, but she did not shine as much as she could have. Trixie could see this woman was hiding some dark secret.The assistant, on the other hand, was not a kind person. She had an evil heart and looked, to Trixie, like a monster. What was perplexing to Trixie was that she could identify that the doctor's secret revolved around the monstrous secretary. When she was working with patients, she glowed like an angel. She was soft-spoken and beautiful. Yet whenever she got anywhere near Jeonna, the glow would fade, and her face lost all its radiance. She was not grotesque, but she was no longer a pretty woman.Trixie had only been in this place for a short amount of time, but she could already tell she would not have meaningful comm