My mind was in turmoil and I couldn’t tell how long I lay there, unmoving and simply focusing on the pain and emptiness. Tears rolled down my eyes, never stopping until I felt like I had lost all the moisture left in me.It didn’t make sense, he couldn’t do this. I turned it over and over in my head trying to make sense of it until I felt a growing ache in my head.Finally, I got up and began to make my way back towards the Dark Moon pack. It didn’t matter to me the repercussions, I could still feel the lingering feelings of pain I had felt from Damon.Something was wrong, something was terribly wrong and I dreaded what I was going back to find.The walk back to town was longer, probably because it was a painful feat to put one leg in front of the other, not with the way my whole body was burning with pain from when I had fallen. I was aware of my injured foot but it had stopped bleeding, it was still sore and it made walking difficult.I was sure the sight of me was terrible but that
The pain I felt when my eyes fluttered open was enough to leave me gasping for air. It aches everywhere, my head, body, eyes - every single inch of me was burning with pain.At first darkness met me when my eyes came open, it took a few seconds for me to realize I was in an extremely dark room. Slowly, I became conscious of my environment and my own self.I struggled with my hands only to realize when chains changed that it had been pulled behind me and was chained.“Hello!” My voice rang out, echoing all around me as it bounced back to the walls of the room I was held in.It took a few seconds until I heard someone say. “Finally awake, Luna, took you long enough.”And the lights came on, a light bulb hanging down the ceiling shone filtering the room with its glow and it was then I realized where I was - a cell.It was as tiny as a shoebox, the walls were peeling off and it smelt worse. It smelled strongly of a mix urine and sweat.“Who are you and where is Damon?” I yelled out again,
The next time the lights came on, the sudden glow almost blinded me and I had to squint for a few more minutes until my eyes got used to it and when I could finally open them, Helena was the one visiting.“Helena,” I called in a relieved tone. It felt good to see someone else, I couldn't tell how many hours or days I’d spent in this dingy room but all I knew was that a lot of time had passed and I had grown weak from hunger and thirst but I’d rather die from starvation than eat anything offered to me, not that anything actually had been.I had been left to myself in complete silence and darkness, exhaustion made every one of my bones numb.“Luna,” She said, smiling at me in that friendly way of hers. “I brought you something to eat,” She indicated the tray she held and dropped it on the floor beside me while she stood. On the tray was a food warmer and a flask, my throat ached from thirst at the sight of it.“I will not eat anything, Helena.” I deadpanned. I wasn't surprised to see sh
The old witch,Valinne,Helena.It couldn't be possible, there's no way in hell and back that Helena could be her but the proof was standing before me. She had taken another’s form and had been living in the pack for so long.I had no idea she was so powerful and I wondered where she got her powers from but a small voice reminded me that she was a sorcerer who had been abandoned by her own people for using forbidden magic. Valinne - Helena - would be able to do anything for power.She chuckled at my expression, her face a display of sheer joy at my locked-up state.“You are pathetic, child. An embarrassment to your mother.” She said, shaking her head disapprovingly.“And you are a sad woman whose hunger for power will never be satiated.” I retorted.Her grin grew larger. “And who says I want it to ever be? With the lack of craving comes living a mundane life and thus ending up just like…” Her eyes ran me over with extra disgust for impact. “You,”“And it'll be better for me to be here
Long after Valline had left, I was still reeling from her words.She hadn't told me the whole truth.There was still so much I didn't know and that thought scared me. Why exactly had Mother caused Aria? What did the previous Luna do to provoke her so much, or?...I shook my head refusing to let any thought of it come to mind but it did and it refused to leave.What if Aria hadn't been the one who’d done something? What if the attack had been targeted at Damon and Mother had simply used Aria as a pawn?“No, it couldn't be,” I whispered to myself. Damon had no business with Mother, if anything Aria must have offended her during the time she had been visiting Mother.“... But then you would have no reason to love him as stupidly as you do now.”She had said that - Valinne, and I wanted to believe she was lying but if there was anything I had been quick to learn about the witch, it was that she was no liar which meant that true to her words, there was something I didn't know about Damon,
Jeremiah and his friends being the considerate assholes they were led me to wherever it was we were headed through town leaving me in my clanging chains to open display for everyone.I was profusely sweltering under the hot sun and the heavy chains I had to pull along didn't in any way make it easier for me. My hair matted to my head fell in stringy strands around my face, I was sure I stank heavily and it was a wonder Jeremiah and his friends hadn't mentioned it.I was pressed with the intense need to pee but having had no liquid intake, the need hadn't been bothering me enough to make me do it on myself and for that I was grateful. I would never be able to get past the shame of urinating on myself.The weakness I felt was so deeply embedded in my soul that I could not even afford to look up and notice what was left of the town but I knew people watched me unabashedly and from the crowd, the smell of vampires strongly perforated the air.It turned out our destination was Damon’s home
But it turned out he wasn't.“Why?” He asked. “ Are you suddenly bothered about hurting people? That's very surprising considering who you are.” “You can't force people to do what you want, David! Maybe instead you should listen to why they think your leadership isn't worth them following.” I yelled at him.“Talks? I don't want to hear them, more of actions, Eliana, now get moving.” He said and immediately Jeremiah grabbed me by the arm and I was tempted e, so tempted to make him pay for it all now.“No,” I heard my wolf’s voice say. “We will make every one of them pay but not yet.”Somehow, her presence excited me a lot. I hadn't felt her since I had been locked up.“The chain held some powers strong enough to weaken your wolf side. I was aware of everything happening but I was too weakened to do anything to help, I am sorry.” She apologized.“No, it's fine. I'm sorry, I should have listened to you and come up with a better plan.” I replied to her, whispering under my breath.Jeremi
The shop owner went down with a loud cry that tore through the silence of the hall, reverberating through the walls and back. I could feel every onlooker’s breath held as they watched me display my sorcery.He laid on the floor writhing from pain and even though it hadn't been enough to kill him, I was certain he would never remain the same - hurting bad enough to wish death upon himself.The next face was unfamiliar and he watched me with the same defiant eyes.“It is horrible enough that you were our Luna, your kind disgusts me! Go on, force me to bow down to someone I will never succumb to! Do it!” He yelled at me.I felt his words ricochet in me and I wanted so badly to tell him it had nothing to do with me and that I was also a pawn in this game but yet again, what use would that be? They hated me already for being a sorcerer, and nothing was going to change that.Despite his stubborn outwardness, the cry he let out was louder than the first. I was not heartless enough to feel no