Argent Eye

15

Stella handed me a steaming cup of tea.

"Thank you." I said, taking it and cupping the warm mug in my hands.

"You're welcome." She said, and sat opposite me with her own cup.

For a while, we just sat in silence. I felt quite tired after all that, but there was no going home. Not yet. Especially if Stella had any answers for me.

"Has anything like that happened before?" Stella asked, being the first to break the silence.

I nodded. "Yeah." I paused. "My tutor, David, was the one who found me after."

"What happened?" She asked.

I put my cup of tea on the table. "I, um... I was outside, on my way home, when I felt it. It was like this incredible strength just filled me, and I liked it. This dark smokey stuff was surrounding my hands, but at the time I didn't care. I was only interested in whatever this feeling was. So, using it, I ran into Greenwich Park. And when I say ran, I mean, I'd never run so fast in my life. I must have been a blur if anyone was watching. It was incredible. But then... then there were these men who came up to me. I knew exactly what they wanted, but obviously they never got it because whatever was inside me managed to scare them off. Except the last one." I had to pause for a moment, as the memories of that night flooded back.

"It's okay." Stella said. "Take your time."

I shook my head, not believing that what happened that night was me. "I, um... I wanted to see him suffer. I wanted to..." My breath caught in my throat, and a tear rolled down my cheek. "I wanted to kill him. And I was so close... I would have. I would have done it if David hadn't showed up."

Now I was crying. Again. Stella immediately put her cup down on the table and came to sit next to me. She wrapped her arm over my shoulder and pulled me close.

"It's okay, Millie." She said, comfortingly. "It's okay." I felt her hand on my arm, and the energy that was coming from it. It was strange, like nothing I'd felt before. Relaxing. Calm. I knew that if I looked at her, her eye would be green.

After a while, I felt the tears begin to subside, although I still felt shit about myself. About what I could have done that night, or even today. I sat up, and wiped my face.

"We feeling better?" Stella asked, with nothing but kindness in her eyes. She wasn't scared or fearful of what I just told her. Only understanding.

"A little." I said, sniffing.

"Look, I know you think that it's your fault, and that you wanted to do it, but you have to know that you didn't. It was this thing inside you."

"This thing inside me, it's darkness." I said. "As in, the element."

Stella didn't look so sure. "What do you mean by that?"

"I know it sounds crazy, but it's true. When I was back at uni, I had a dream. Well, more like a vision, I'm sure of it."

"What happened?" She asked. "In your dream?"

I explained the dream I'd had in the white room, with all the elements. I tried my best to not miss out any details, and when I was done, I picked up my tea and started to drink it.

"I've heard of people who have had dreams like that." She said. "But, obviously they only have one element there. They're like an initiation, of sorts."

"Ronan told me yesterday that darkness and light are not elements that an Argent can inherit, though." I said.

"Well, they weren't." Stella said. "But it looks like things are changing. It seems as though you have a connection to all the elements, which has never even been rumoured to be true."