The satisfied smile on her face for what she did with the snow disappeared as she approached Fox and Rebekah to the edge of a waterfall where several trees surrounded them. And on the other side of the waterfall, there was that woman.This can't be happening, she thought to herself. What is she doing here?"I don't know," replied Rebekah. "But I thought you wouldn't see her again."Helena had warned her that a woman was looking for her, but she didn't think it would be her. That woman with white skin, perfectly crafted features, clear yet dark eyes that reflected anything but benevolence. There she was, with her hands clasped at her waist, dressed in her black tuxedo that gave her both masculine and feminine airs, which Melia could tell was the best brand. Her blonde hair was slicked back and her chin was raised with an effect of fear and power."So it is and so it shall be... Skalliet."And as she would say herself: "The less you know about me, the better off you'll be."Melia and Sk
Night fell, and everyone was at the mansion except for Melia. Fox and Rebekah thought she had gone straight to the mansion to break something, but apparently not. Fox told Za what had happened, and she was both surprised and worried. She knew perfectly well who that woman was and what she was capable of, but she never thought she would see her again.They didn't give clear answers to Helena and the pelinieve about who that woman was, and Elijah asked about Melia, but Rebekah didn't know where she was.Now they were all in the kitchen, with Helena sitting next to Elijah on the couch, Fox next to Rebekah with their gazes fixed on nothing in particular. Za was standing at the stove, preparing food."I can't believe you had that idea," a male voice spoke through their thoughts. It was Fox.For everyone else, both Fox and Rebekah just stared into space. But what the others didn't know was that they were communicating through their thoughts.Za sighed as she tossed the vegetables in the pan
When the snowhair parents and siblings left, Fox came out after two minutes doing what Melia did, placing the same stone that she took under the stairs of the mansion. He went back inside and closed the door.Later, Melia started a discussion about what happened today. And more for the fact that Orleans' family was in the mansion. That was something that should not have happened and more the knowing, where Elijah was.At the end of the discussion, everyone focused on their own issues.Melia sat on the living room sofa taking the bottle that was on the coffee table, which was already lying empty. He made a slight pout because of that.Another weight was felt minutes later on the sofa, it was Helena." Since I've been here I've seen you drink that liquor." He spoke and Melia looked at him. "It's Bourbon, right?" He asked and Melia nodded with her eyes on the bottle." My father sells that alcohol.Melia looked at him."Really? " Helena noticed that her face apparently lit up because of w
This was a great and pathetic stupidity, reaching the level of believing something real.His brow furrowed and he groaned in pain as he brought his hand to his right eye. He turned over in bed to face the front again. He opened his eyes, his breathing accelerated, and he made a grimace, propping himself up on his forearms on the bed."What the hell happened to me?" he wondered when he saw his reflection on his cellphone screen.His eye was swollen and bruised, every touch causing even more pain. His gaze shifted to the back of the room."Good morning," he said with a cynical smile on his face. "How's your eye, Jahjah?"Judging by his tone, she must have been the cause of it."Did you hit me?""Me? Not at all," she replied with a hypocritical touch. "I just gave you what you deserved for throwing away my beers.""And you're still on about that, huh?" He sat on the edge of the bed, his hand on his eye. "It's over, get over it.""Those beers were from France, the last ones of that brand.
It was noon and Karina was sitting on one of the benches in the palace. Her gaze was sparkling as she admired the view - the beautiful trees, the garden, the pink flowers that grew faster and faster. She smiled as she watched her daughter running after a colorful butterfly."Melia!" she called out, and the girl stopped and looked at her mother, then walked towards her. "Leave the butterfly alone.""I don't want to," she pouted, and her mother kissed her forehead. "It's so pretty and I want to keep it with me.""You sound just like your father when you talk like that," she chuckled briefly. "He...he wants to have everything.""That's why he's the king of all here.""That's right," she sighed, and Melia noticed that her face had turned somewhat sad."Are you okay, mother?" she asked, looking into her eyes."With you, everything is fine," she smiled and kissed her head.Her glasses hung around her neck. She closed the book, marking the page before sighing and leaning against the door fra
The teacher nodded to her response, unsure of what to say. This was something very deep, and the tone in which Melia said each thing made him doubt whether the book he read at night before sleeping told things as they happened. With nothing else to say, he just changed the subject. Or so he tried until a certain pelinieve spoke up."Are you trying to say, Dahioh, that both Melia's father and mother were bad people?" he asked, and Melia looked at him. "For me, Karina was very different.""What a pity that you let yourself be influenced by what a person writes, who I bet everything I have, didn't even know what tap water he was drinking," that response caused an inciting "Oh" for discussion.Elijah clenched his jaw, he got angry. Melia could change his mood in less time than a rooster sings without any complications. He was beginning to think she did it for fun, and he wasn't far from it.Avoiding what the professor was saying, he kept talking. "Whatever the writer Hokonick may have don
The rest of the day was slow, very much against the quickness that the pelinieve wanted it to pass. He was now on the second break, sitting at one of the tables on campus, his nervous and distracted gaze evident wherever he looked.Helena was with Jackson Park; it was a miracle that today that guy who made his life impossible was not bothering him.Melia's effect, perhaps?He felt a weight on his shoulder, it was Fox."Is something wrong?" he asked."I'm nervous," Elijah replied."Can...? Don't fuck with me," Fox's face turned to surprise and he laughed without more. "Did you give Melia the thread?" he asked under his breath. "She will make you a man today, Elijah. My little big one will become a man," he said with feigned nostalgia, wiping an imaginary tear. That just made Elijah laugh. "She won't do anything to you that you don't ask for.""And if I ask for everything? And if I do it wrong? And if she doesn't like it?""Relax, you'll do fine, she'll help you with that. Besides... Yo
The shower water was cool. Her pale skin could feel it that way, warm. She turned off the shower and grabbed the towel that was next to the shower, running it over her slender body until she wrapped it around her waist. With another towel, she dried her white hair.She stepped out of the bathroom, closing the door behind her, and turned around, bumping into someone."Melia," he said, his heart racing. "I didn't see you come in or hear you.""No one does, Jahjah," she whispered, taking the towel from his hands and drying her hair a little more. "You smell perfect," she let him know as she sniffed him. "Too good." Her nose brushed against the exposed skin of his neck, making him squirm. Then her tongue made its way to his ear. "Jahjah..." she whispered in his ear, biting his earlobe. "Let's play." She looked into his eyes. "I want to play with you, I want to do it with you, only with you." She kissed his nose and chin. "I want to play that we make love, Jahjah..." He gasped when she bit
The headmaster called out for the missing one, Elijah. He stepped forward to the stage amidst applause, and the headmaster handed him his diploma, saying,"The woman who is destined to change the lives of many, to dispel the lies of all, and to prove that the impossible is possible, left behind an essay - one that Elijah, of course, did not write." There was a brief chuckle from the audience. "But it was she, Melia, who gave it to me and told me something I only understood recently... I was moved by what I read in that essay. It touched my heart and made me understand many things, including the importance of devotion to the same love of God..." He sighed. "Orleans." He glanced at someone in the audience briefly, then continued. "he will read what she wrote, and thus, my dear students, everything that has been for you will conclude, marking the beginning of your own journeys. I can only say this in closing, never give up on your goals, your dreams... Believe in yourselves, in each of y
The dim sunlight peeked through her window, announcing its presence. The cool breeze entered as well, rustling the vibrant green leaves that had regained their color after the winter. The lush trees were covered in leaves, with the few yellow ones scattered at their feet. Summer had made its presence known.She stood in her room, gazing out the window in a particular direction, toward that place that brought back memories. To that direction where, when she fixed her gaze, her mind played tricks on her, vividly reconstructing something that wasn't quite as it seemed.A pang in her heart, truly, a pang that felt like a bullet piercing it, stealing several heartbeats and the air from her lungs. The trick her mind played caused such a feeling, that memory that appeared so clear of her, standing there, looking at him, just like that time when she thought someone would discover her true self, setting in motion the change in her life.And she had let her go.It hurt to remember that day, let
He turned on his heels, looking back. His heart pounded as fiercely as the tears welling up on his face, a smile forming there.Her voice, that voice he could recognize... There, before him, bathed in a beautiful, radiant white light, was his mother. His father, his siblings... They all gazed at him with smiles reflected on their lips, in their eyes, proof that what he believed to be dead still lived in his heart.The return from death by the act of another being's soul, one who loved him, who loved Elijah.Elijah was about to embrace his mother, siblings, and father, but Melia's voice stopped him. He turned to her, looking into her eyes."You must embrace them, you must feel them when you finish the prayer," she said, trying to keep her words, so different from Skalliet's, from confusing his mind. "Jahjah, look at me," she asked when she noticed he was looking at Skalliet because of what he was saying. She couldn't let him be convinced. "You are the perfect carnation that, despite ev
Skalliet was on the verge of attacking his brother, but Fox wouldn't allow it. A struggle ensued between them.The screams of others could be heard everywhere. Rebekah was locked in battle with the creatures chasing Skalliet, while Melia still held the frostnive by the wrist, dragging him to the center of the arena before releasing him."Don't do it," her mother's voice cut through the chaos. She stood beside Za, just a few steps away from Melia. "Please.""The decision has already been made," Melia replied without emotion. "Your punishment will be this, Jahjah." The frostnive looked at her in confusion, while despair surrounded them, and the sounds of the ongoing fights echoed in the background. "My lies, in exchange for your difference, are worth much more," she continued. "And soon, you will know."The clear image of Skalliet approaching became visible to everyone. He was after Olliet, intent on taking him, on killing him. He had nothing left to give except what he held for Elijah.
I see your soul, I want to paint it black. No more pure colors, if you choose to take my hand. I can see the beauty in your being, the benevolence in your heart. I can see how little I care about that. The cause and effect of all this is that I want to paint you black. People don't understand, they don't understand you. The world around you is too little for what you truly deserve. Love is scarce, mine is abundant. Life is short, eternity is not. Take my hand, let our eternities merge. I look within me, and my heart is black. I see through you, yours is not. I want to paint it black. I want to paint it black. Join your hand with mine in this dance. Our eternity will unite. The sway of our bodies, our locked gazes, is the little understanding for those around us. I don't care about the fall; I want you with me. Do you want me with you? If so, take my hand. I can't stare at the setting moon. If you join your hand with mine, our love will laugh at us before dawn. I'll
"They love each other so much," Elijah said. "It's visible wherever you look.""With all their hearts," Karina added. "They are meant for each other, they are...""The same soul," Za concluded. "Their love... it's as vast as the thread that allowed them to find each other.""The thread of life given to them by Melia," Elijah said. "The thread given to them by the woman who now hates me." He laughed bitterly. "The woman I love with all my soul." His feline eyes closed as he spoke those words with depth.Za and Karina looked at him without saying anything. What was the need to say anything? Both of them saw the pelinieve as a son, as the boy who, despite everything that happened, remained there, following Melia. Oh, after a being considered impossible...Elijah opened his eyes and released a sigh. Karina's hand covered his over the table."Despite everything, dear, things will be okay, right?" She said, trying to keep her eyes from tearing up. "There's no need to cry; it doesn't fix thi
The faint glow of the lampposts was just on the edge of the darkened sky. The breeze was cold yet strangely warm. The music was in tune with the celebration, and everywhere you looked, it was elegant, more so than anyone had ever imagined. The vast majority of those who usually settled for the first thing they found in their closets were now more than perfect; they caught everyone's attention, the epitome of beauty in their tailor-made dresses, illuminating the campus even more, which served as the backdrop for the dance.The tuxedos fit each of the guys more than perfectly. Their stances and the way they held their partners were in perfect harmony. Tonight was the dawn of a new day when, for once, the majority behaved themselves.In the hallway, Pelinieve struggled with his tie. His white hair was perfectly combed back, his tuxedo fitting him impeccably, but his expression... it was one of displeasure. He didn't want to be here, didn't want to come to this dance. He had no desire to
" Certain things happened around the vicinity of Rome centuries ago," Rebekah replied. "In that place, she stayed with Skalliet for many years... Consequently, when writers heard stories from there, and the name of a certain Melia Conkinova echoed even more... They decided to base everything that happened in her life, with her family, in that city. " And her father? They say he was the owner and practically the king of that place. " Rome, so to speak, would be the creator's domain," Fox spoke. "Elijah, everything you've read, every distorted aspect of places, names... it all happened in the realm above. Never on Earth. " It can't be..." Elijah murmured almost inaudibly. "Are you telling me that Melia was never a terrestrial being? " That's right." In response to the answer, his mouth hung open in shock. Such a thought had never crossed his mind. He found it more credible that, being a terrestrial being, she simply did something very different to survive for so many years. But never
There was no explanation; no one could provide one, and they all swore by everything. Who could have organized the ancient party in such a short time? Most people wondered, including the entire leadership group. Several days had passed, and they thought that there wasn't enough time to organize the party so quickly. Helena had been tasked with distributing the flyers at the director's request. Unlike the others, she had an approximate idea of who could have organized the party, her own party. The classrooms were filled with students in a brief commotion; there would be no classes today as everyone was at the school to help with various tasks. The purpose of the ancient party, celebrating a fictional character, would come sooner than expected.Tonight, it would begin in the early hours.The director entered the classroom where student Chantai was. He greeted the language teacher and stood before the students."I don't know who to thank for organizing such a perfect party that will take