AFIRE: fight for the Earth begins✓

23.3 THIERON

The story so far:

---- Aija is a Volunteer at the Pristine School at Innermost. She works along with Zuri and Ze, who are her friends. Aija witnesses a strange event one night – light emanating from Rez's body. The kidnapper is after her soul, next, but he leaves her alive and goes away. Another man finds her, he wants to take her somewhere else - Aija though wary of him agrees. Aija learns of the existence of the aliens – the Ytai. Also, about the R'ies and H'eon, Harvesting and Àvo from Etrie. Etrie tells her that the man, who Harvested Rez (Thieron), will now go after her. He tells her that the spy/kidnapper's name is Luka. Etrie asks her to work along with him. Aija agrees to work along with Etrie on Harvest Stopping Missions.

---- Thieron kidnaps Aija. She finds out that Nala works for Thieron. Ze, who was following her to rescue her, gets captured along with her. Thieron binds Aija to himself.

---- Luka asks Aija not to talk of Zuri to Nala, especially in front of Thieron. She agrees for Zuri's sake. Luka goes to Etemir to scout for souls. He is caught by Etrie but manages to escape. Etrie is furious about Aija and Ze.

---- Thieron is planning the Harvest of the soul that Luka scouted.

---- Aija and Ze try to escape, but Thieron stops them. 

---- Thieron and Aija go to the Open. They meet Alton Ivar, 

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****23.3 - Thieron****

Thieron woke in the middle of the night. 

Aija was still in bed and she was asleep. He changed into sweatpants and removed the lenses in his eyes that made his eyes blue. He often wore the lenses through the night even when he slept, but his eyes were starting to feel dry and he was truly getting a headache, now.

He looked at himself in the mirror; his two different colored eyes stared back at him. Staring and wishing wouldn't change his eye colors. There were no Spirits, Gods, and Goddesses to listen to his wishes and make them come true.

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Thieron woke to a faint burning on his wrist. He jolted up straight looking for Aija. She wasn't in bed.

"Zuh'tih!" he cursed.

Even after he warned her! The pain flared up and he gritted his teeth. She must have gone pretty far; though he sensed that she was in the Mansion.

"That girl!" he said as he followed the tether of the bond. He ran and felt the burning of the *Uil'dran soften. He found her close to Alton's office room – on the floor in Dhor-Wo's grasp.

"Let her go!" he yelled as the bond quietened.

Dhor-Wo looked at him and laughed. He whispered something into Aija's ear, let her go and walked away.

Thieron grabbed her and turned her to him wild with anger. "What did I tell you?" he growled. His electricity pricked his skin, and it touched her skin, drawing a shiver from her.

Aija stared at him, not saying a word. Her eyes fell on his.

"Answer me!" Thieron demanded.

"Your eyes..." she whispered.

Thieron then remembered removing the lenses as she slept. She had never seen him without them; never seen the true colors of his eyes – each a different color; not the blue the lenses turned them into.

"I know they're hideous," he growled pulling her up from where she sat.

She frowned. "But, they are beautiful," she whispered almost unintentionally.