[Completed] Amira is a human who finds herself thrust into a world she doesn't know. Once she wakes up in the strange town of Woling, she has to fight to regain the memories of the evils she committed in order to keep her past from destroying everyt...
I couldn't force my eyes to open, they were both heavier than solid lead weights and were stuck together with what felt like dried tears. I must've been crying in my sleep. Nice.
"Is she going to wake up soon?"
"Your guess is as good as mine."
"You're a Doctor, shouldn't you know better than me," Axle snapped back and I could feel his course fingers touch my forehead. I agreed, Doc should know better than Axle, but realistically I had only seen the man scribble away on a clipboard so was he really a good doctor? Do cults need to have their doctors classically trained in medicine?
I had a feeling that this wasn't a cult. Memories of Eon's inhumanness were slowly revealing something to me that I should've probably been able to piece together on my own. Something here was not quite this-worldly, and how I got caught up in it all was anyone's guess. I would go as far as to blame Cara about that though.
"Her heart rate is speeding up, I think that's good," Axle mumbled and I felt pressure against the side of my neck.
Axle's words were spot on, my heart was speeding up, and the weight keeping my eyes shut seemed to be slowly lifting and taking with it the brain fog. After another moment I cracked my eyelids open, cringing at the light but still forcing them on to open wide. Doc muttered an apology, but didn't take the flashlight away. Jerk.
Once the light was finally gone I blinked up at the vaulted ceilings, trailing down the shadows of the corners under my attention faced onto where Axle and Emma were hovering nearby as Doc tucked the dumb little flashlight back into his pants pocket while still pressing two fingers against my pulse point.
From what I remembered from Emma's tour, this was one of the many common areas of the house. I hadn't paid much attention then, it seemed like the most boring place out of everything that she had shown me. I stand by that, it still seems boring.
"Can you- can you get off of me?" I croaked out suddenly. Doc jumped as if he wasn't expecting me to speak.
"You can't sit up just yet," I narrowed my eyes.
"I'm awake though," Axle laughed until Emma elbowed him in the side and Doc sighed impatiently, glaring over his shoulder at the two siblings.
"She's right though."
"She's not sitting up yet," He looked back at me with his lips drawn tight. "You are not sitting up yet," I rolled my eyes and lightly pushed Doc away from me as I sat up.
"Gods she's as stubborn as you are," Axle didn't respond, but the corner of his mouth pulled upward as he crouched down beside me. The world spun a bit and I leaned against him, melting slightly as I looked into his honey eyes.
When I regained my stability, I used his strong form to heave myself to my feet, looking up at the vaulted ceiling to ground myself. As I slowly tilted my head back down I saw that we were not alone.
Far from alone.
Ten people were huddled together on the far side of the large room, all watching us with expressions that would make a supervillain jealous.
Creepy as hell.
It's rude to stare, but as Axle moved up behind me I couldn't help but do it as my attention is repeatedly drawn to the group already staring at me. There was a weight around my neck that I noticed for the first time looking at them, my hand moving up to fidget with the necklace that I had all but forgotten about in my time awake.
Weird. How had I never noticed a necklace on my person before? I had showered, I had forced myself to look in the mirror at my reflection. Was my brain damaged just enough that I forgot I was wearing some jewelry?
My movements stilled when I noticed her.
Immediately a rush of adrenaline tensed my muscles reflexively as I stared her down. She was standing just to the right of a gangly-looking man at the head of the pack, long hair pulled back away from her face in a tight elegant braid. All of them were wearing regal-looking cloaks – weird, who wears cloaks in the modern age.
The bright intelligent eyes that used to look down on me in annoyance and concern were now looking back at me with pity and apprehension.
"Amira?" Time froze around me.
No, no, no no no nononono not this.
Kill her. The command echoed around my head as my fingers twitched, seeking something that should've been strapped to my side, but there was nothing there. Nausea swept through my system and my eyes blurred- tears? I was crying? I staggered back against Axle, shivering with panic as Cara stepped forward cautiously, her palms out in what I assumed was meant to be peace, but it didn't bring me any.
"N-no stay away from me," I trembled, completely gripped with terror. Maybe it was just my mind playing tricks, but her eyes seemed to glow for a second.
Kill her.
I can't- I can't do this, why do I have to kill her? Why do I want to kill her? Eon had told me not to cry, that my enemies would feed off my weaknesses and that he wouldn't be there when it was time. Was it time? Was this what I was meant to do? Was this the reason I was here? Yes.
Kill her.
I shook my head sharply to try and get rid of the tunnel vision I got when I stared at her, bringing my hands to grab onto my head in an attempt to ground myself.
The urges didn't even fade slightly until Axle loosely draped his arm over my shoulder to pull me closer into his chest. It honestly felt like he was tenser than I was as he stared down my sister.
"If you don't tell us why you are here, I will not hesitate in kicking you off of my land," Axle's voice sounded strong, but anyone could hear the tremor in his words. He was as scared as I was. Maybe not as visibly scared, but internally I'm sure he was freaking out, from all the information I had, these people were not good news, and he hadn't exactly seemed thrilled about their early arrival.
"We're here for the girl," A man spoke up, the one who had been standing at the front and center was now gliding closer. This couldn't be happening. I didn't even understand what was happening.
"Why?" I whimpered out. My breath going choppy. Cara took more steps towards me and I pressed against Axle, eager for any sort of comfort he could provide me.
"Eon."
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Welp, here's another chapter for ya. Kinda short, but important nevertheless. Let me know what you think!
