Beauty Sleep - Chapter 48

Ora’s POV

I’ve been training with my Aunt Jo since I was a kid. But training to fight and actually fighting are completely different. There are no do-overs.

Granted, Millicent’s army is here to kill us. But I have never taken a life, and I am struggling with that concept. “It’s them or us, Ora,” my aunt yells at me when she sees me hesitate. I saw my aunt unmercifully kill one creature after another.

“Yes, Aunt Jo,” I said, as I used my sword to kill the creature with sharp teeth. I am covered in blood and want nothing more than to wash it off me. But that was one of hundreds.

One of the mud creatures charged at me with a raised club. It’s just like the one from the church earlier today. I stab it with my sword, but it doesn’t react. It simply grunts, looking at the hilt of my sword as it sticks out of its chest. Using the distraction, I picked up an axe from the ground and threw it, just like I was taught. It hits it in the chest. But again, the creature didn’t seem to react t