Chapter Seven - Poison

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   “The spell won't hold her longer than a few hours, but that's plenty of time,” Dexen said as he completed the spell that would keep Seraphina from going anywhere.

“Yeah, it's enough,” Riley told him, looking down at Hart's dead sister. He wondered if this was the reason Hart looked the way he did when Riley killed and took her. Did he think it was some kind of payback? Revenge for him killing Fiona? Well, it wasn't. But he did have an imagination and the sight before him pleased him, although not completely. Seraphina was immortal, or so as long as Hart lived. She wasn't gone forever like Fiona.

And if it was true, that Hart was upset that Riley killed Seraphina, then he had a lot of nerve.

“She's moving!” Dexen pointed at her chest, which was slowly rising from her breathing. “How is she back this fast? It isn't possible.”

“But it's okay, right? There's a reason you put a spell on her, so that when she woke up she won't be able to do anything,” Riley said as he watched Seraphina's closed eyes.

“It's not okay! It means I was wrong – Hart's power was a distraction, a wall to hide the real power, hers!”

Her eyes snapped open and they were bright and blue. She looked at her surroundings, then at the two of them. There was a moment of silence as she stared straight at Riley with hostile eyes. She tried moving her hands, but the spell stopped her. She closed her eyes and for a moment the brothers thought she was accepting that she wasn't going anywhere, but they were wrong, they were very wrong.

Seraphina opened her eyes again and they were yellow this time. She started laughing, moving her head side to side as her hands moved and stretched. Her laugh reminded Riley too much of Jocelyn, they were truly related.

“I am not Hart, you can't just simply kill me and use me,” she said as her body rose in mid air and came back down when she was straight up. “Just because my brother is broken and weak doesn't mean I am.”

The ground beneath her began to change color; the plants and grass were dying at a rapid rate. It was almost like a plague. Riley and Dexen stepped back as it spread towards them, but they stopped. Seraphina walked towards them and with each step, blood-red dust released from her body like vapor. They couldn't look away from her eyes, they were frozen and without control.

“S-st-stop,” Dexen stuttered.

“Stop what? If you want to leave just look away,” she said and giggled. “On the other hand, you did bring me here after you killed me. And now I wonder if it's a good thing that I don't know what you two were planning on doing with me.”

“I'm sorry,” Riley said, and it surprised Seraphina that the glow in her eyes appeared less menacing.

“Oh, Riley. It's too late for apologies.” She moved towards his frozen body as the death in the plants circled around them, not touching the single green circle left that kept them unharmed and alive. “I can't hurt you, but I can't say that I like you anymore.”

“You're just mad you finally died,” Dexen taunted. “How did it feel? Did you see daddy?”

Seraphina's eyebrows arched. She turned her attention away from Riley to him, walking across the dead grass to where Dexen was standing still.

“You really look like brothers.” She smiled, looking closely at his face. “It's kind of funny. It was my job to find someone that Hart could use to bring back our mother. I never took it serious, that's why it took forever. But I was the one who found Riley, and I was the one who found his sister. I knew he was a witch, I could sense it, but he didn't know it, that's why he made the perfect dummy for Hart's spell. And I knew he was adopted. I couldn't let another opportunity like that go.”

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