Yoda returned moments later with a box, it was pink.“What's that?." I wouldn't be surprised if she pulled out a syringe and insisted on giving me a toxic injection, I can never been too sure.Maybe she's psycho, that's why they put here here with me. “It's a necklace..." She opened the box and inside was a pretty necklace.“I don't want that." I said warily.“It's fine, I'll keep it for later. You might change your mind."I was about to talk, telling her I would never change my mind but an alarm went off and she stood up from her kneeling position and without another word, she disappeared. I felt a great need to get out of here because I was burning with confusion, there were so many questions I needed to ask.I pulled my hand back and smashed it against the glass wall. A different kind of pain shot through my hand and registered in my senses, it was foreign. I fell down, clutching my hand and screaming.“What happened?." Yoda asked reappearing, one glass wall opened and she entered
Rainee stood from her sitting position and pressed her palms against the glass, as if she had gotten used to staying in the cube. She looked from her mother, to Vinx, then Kalum and Felix... Then she searched and when her eyes fell on me, I could see her visibly relax. Heart of gold. “Is everyone alright?." She asked in her soft sexy voice. She was too innocent, her big eyes were holding so much emotions, most especially fear. What did she ever do to come here? We were the ones that had killed, slaughtered, buried and burned down lives to their deaths. She didn't deserve to be here. She was too soft and cute and innocent.I wish I could wrap my hands around her and give her a reassuring hug. A tall handsome man stepped forward, I didn't want to see him as handsome but the truth was inevitable. His features came together to forge a remarkable face. Oh my gosh, look at his hands, those hands have led wars and wielded swords and arrows…his legs, his body, everything about him was marv
She looked down at her hands, they were trembling. She took in air and it looked like she was in pain from just breathing. Eighteen seconds of breathing in that gas must have done a lot of things to herShe closed her eyes and ran her fingers through her hair.“Now." Nax said and a name displayed on all the walls of her cube." Timothy... Who is Timothy? " I asked myself.Immediately she saw it, she broke down and started crying.“Time is running Rainee, we don't have all day."RAINEE.My hands started to shake as I saw the name I tried so hard to forget. A name that sometimes chases me from sleep. How did they know, there was no way they would have known!.My hands were shaking and I could feel all eyes on me. The name alone triggered the memory and all lives were at stake here, most especially mine. I could feel my insides melting. I had to talk.“It was many years ago, in college. Why do you even need this information?." I asked Nax, the fucking devil. I hated him with all my heart
I was done with speaking but the topic was still displayed on the walls.“When you say people, you mean?."I felt my heart tearing and I wanted the gas to be released, I wanted to die.“Children."Nax paced the floor.“As everyone is listening, why don't you tell all of us about... "The topic on the screen changed and now it displayed: 'Why you got fired by Grant Harlowe. 'I had said many bad things, I wasn't afraid to say this one.“I really did take the twenty five thousand dollars from Mr Grant but I returned it. At that point I was a petty thief, no longer a cheap whore.... But I couldn't take the money. I couldn't. "I turned to Nax, I was pleading at this point. I couldn't look anybody in the eye, not the strangers that stood in their cubes, not Felix or Nolaine or the twins, I couldn't.“Now, it's your turn."I felt the temperature in the glass change and I knew that my cube was now sealed, I could speak but no one would hear.I turned to Vinx, he looked at me and I turned my
I turned away and my eyes fell on one of the strangers, it was a young famale, I noticed that all of them had cloaks covering their faces and in the angle she was at, Felix and my mother would not be able to see her.I started to work everyone's angle, I noticed that everyone was placed systematically. I was put in the middle, everyone could see me and I could see everyone but Vinx could not see everyone, Nolaine could see almost everybody but not everyone, My mother could see none of the strangers…This thing that Nax and Zandrey and Yoda were doing, it was bigger than I thought. How impactful was it going to be? They said we would all be different people when we walk out of the cube. When was that going to be? I didn't even know what time it was but certainly it should be after midnight by now.This was not what I expected my birthday to be like. I never had big happy birthdays before but I had peace... At least I wasn't in a cube. Nax leaned on my cube and knocked on it. I looked
“You would do anything the moon goddess asks, why?."“Because she's the giver of life."“Why did you marry Latoye?."“Because she wanted him dead and no one could kill him. No one could get close to him. I married him to kill him."“Did you?."“Yes."The name changed to Aaron. Aaron was Vinx's and Kalum's father. For the first time I saw an expression on their faces, it was shock.I never met their father. My mother rarely spoke of him. Now she was going to say something we might have never heard before.“Were you instructed to marry him?."“Yes."“Did you?."“Yes."“Why was the reason you married him."“Because the union was said to bring in strong kings. "“You married him to kill him after you conceived the kings?."“Y-yes."Fear sucked my breath out of my lungs like a vacuum.“Did you kill him?."“Y- you know the answer to that!." She yelled balling her hands into fists and hitting it on the floor.“I want to hear you say it, we... want to hear you say it."“I did, I killed him."
“if you ever think of turning that cube red..." Felix said through gritted teeth, I had never seen him angry and if this was his anger, I never ever want to see it…ever again.He wasn't directing that anger at me but I felt the fear it was instilling. My heart swelled because he was directing that anger for me.Nax disappeared from under Felix's grip, there was now a very big hole in his cube and I could see his his finger marks on Nax's neck. Nax would not survive that.In a blink of an eye Nax was perfectly fine, his neck was as good as new.“I learnt long ago that if I was going to play with fire, I had to prepare so I won't get burnt. I wasn't expecting you to do that but I wasn't expecting you to spare me either. I'm playing a dangerous game by using Rainee as leverage but as the twins confessed very easily, please I need the same cooperation from you or I will really turn her cube red"Nax cracked his neck and turned to me.“Remember Felix, if you break out of your cube, the ga
NOLAINEThere was evidence that the three of them could break out of the cube but they did not want to do it because it would end up hurting Rainee and they didn't want to lose her. At first when they talked about the mate bond they felt, I was skeptical, now I saw the evidence that they cared for her. The three of them were ruthless and merciless, I wasn't even an exception. I know that we would have been killing all of Lantharn if it weren't for Rainee in a cube. The bracelets around their wrists surpressed their power but It didn't take it all, it couldn't take it all. The ruler was right, they could wipe Lantharn away with half a thought. Why did they bring us here? The confession everyone told made me see them in a new light but the reason we were here must be bigger than this mere confession. Vinx, Kalum and Felix were inpatient…they wanted to hold Rainee. I had studied their body language since I was here, they were really in love with her. I don't think she knows it yet. I