WorthyHis huge hand grabbed a ladle. He used it to stir the boiling pot, bubbling and smoke rising up as he took the lid. His other hand went to reach a bowl filled with sliced chunks of broccoli and potatoes.Sitting on the table were Emory and Cressida. Their bright green eyes followed his every movement, both are waiting for the stew to cook.“How much longer?” Emory said, she caressed her stomach, she can feel it grumbling.It was their first meal of the day. For some days, they do have a lot of food provided by their uncle Edgar. But today, and the day before, he had gone home empty-handed. Seems like there aren’t many sources for him to fetch them some food.“I am yet to find a new place for us, where there are enough food to fill our stomach,” Edgar said to them the other day.The twins cannot do anything. They are still small to even get their own food. And so, all they do is wait for their uncle to return and they do so sometimes with a grumbling stomach.“Three minutes,” Ed
Strange ElinorColin’s forehead was filled with cold sweats. His nose is flaring and his breathing is heavy.He could feel his heart beating loudly in his chest as he sees four witches walking close to him. One of them went to go after Flynn and Rider who took the twins and is no longer in his sight.He clenched his jaw when they all laughed at him, their mouths stretched into wicked smiles showing him their rotten teeth.“What a brave soul.”“Yes, indeed.”The witches are now nearer than ever. A breath on his neck was what did it to him.With every strength left, he grabbed one of them by the neck and flung its body to a nearby trunk.The ugly old hag’s body rolled and twitched in pain. She hunched over like a fetus on the ground, twisting in pain in her abdomen.His senses heightened like he had an eye in the back of his head. He can feel someone going to take a blow at his head but he quickly dodges it.His hands reached for the knife he had hidden inside his boots. Although it was
Elinor spun on her heels. She has been watching outside the window, her neck hurts from being in the same position for hours on end so she decided to take a little bit of rest."I think I strained my neck," she told Bonnie who was keeping her company.The windowsill now becomes their hang-out spot. She had laid soft bedding on it and a pillow for when she had nothing else to do but look outside and wait for Colin's return.But this time, she need to lay her back and head to rest. And then after that, she would repeat the same cycle she had these days: Wait for his return, have a little bit of rest, eat, and then repeat. Bonnie looked up from the book she had been reading, "Go ahead and rest." "Aren't you gonna do the same as well?" she asked her.She jumped from the crooked windowsill where she had been sitting in the morning, and now it is early afternoon."I will, soon after I finish a chapter.""Alright, then." "See you at dinner," Bonnie said before she left."I will," she repl
Losing HopeColin's body froze when he sets his eyes on a deer. His hands slowly went to the back of his boots where he hid a dagger. Pulling it out slowly, he was about to throw it out with the intent to kill the deer but he heard Rider's rattled voice.She took the twin! She ran away!All muscles in his body froze at the very moment he heard the dreadful news."Colin! Move! Let's move!" Flynn shouted near his ear. He had to slap Colin to make him snap out of it.And with the help of that, Colin came back to a reality he swears to never live on. He's back again to an even more terrifying reality of losing the twins.His hands gripped the dagger, he was ready to throw it to Rider instead who was the one to blame for what happened."I told you to keep your eyes on them!" he screamed, his chest bursting with anger.Rider stepped back, his cheeks flustered from being angry and nervous at the same time, and his chest heaving with a lungful of breath.Seeing Colin this angry is among his w
A MiracleThe man's face was drained of blood, and so was Ernest's. Almost everyone who came face to face with the Spirits would have the same look on their face, pale with shock, gaped mouth, and trembling lips.But for the husband and wives that stood before a cloaked member of the Spirits, knowing that they both had gambled their souls to them, they were frozen with fear. Breathing became a difficult thing to do, and they had been holding their breaths now since he entered."I am here to take them," the man calmly said. Janet's eyes watched its pale grey lips move slightly.Without saying anything, Janet, who was determined to keep the twins earlier that she is willing to fight her husband for it, stepped aside to let the cloaked man make his way to the twins.She must have recognized that she cannot do anything at all.Gathering her courage to find her voice and speak, she spun in her heels to face the man. She looked into its black, hollow eyes, and in a terrified voice, she aske
His eyes might go dry but he will never blink away from this moment. He was yet to recover from the injury he got in the back of his head, the cuts all over his leg and around his back still ache at every small twist and turn but seeing the twins, his twins, makes every pain he was feeling more bearable. Colin could count the times he cried. One, was when he got his first ever heartbreak, two, the most painful yet to him, when Elinor left him, and third, was when he heard her cry herself to sleep every night.He did not know then that one can really cry out of happiness. The fourth time he cried was right at that moment, inside the rogue's run-down cabin where he was once again staring at the curious, wide-eyed faces of his children.The cloaked man, the rogue, and even Flynn included, stood still in one part of the small room. They stood and witnessed a long-awaited meeting of a father and his lost twins.One of the twins, the one with a blue rugged dress took a step closer to Colin
HomeColin's face contorted. He wished to take his words back. But the cloaked man before him had warned him. The man's lips curled backward, and right then, Colin knew he was doomed."Her... her s-soul?" he asked for clarification, praying to all that was holy that he heard it wrong. Desperation was evident in his eyes."By some worst luck, is your hearing impaired? Werewolves like you are supposed to hear from miles away, and I'm standing right before you, yet you make me want to repeat myself," the man said, his voice sounded like a sound that was coming from the deepest ocean. It was heavy, and most definitely, bone-chilling.Colin blinked, he then he swallowed hard. It is evident to him that the cloaked man was having fun seeing him regret his decision."Isn't it too much of you to ask for my Elinor's soul? She is the mother of the twins you saved," he said, pleading. If the cloaked man would ask him to grovel down his feet, Colin would do so without any second thoughts."I know
StitchesThat same night, Elinor tucked Cressida and Emory to sleep. As much as she wanted to keep them awake so she could watch them move, and hear them telling her their stories, she knew they needed rest the most.The door of her bedroom creaked, she turned her head over, and there, she saw Colin, leaning against the door frame.His long black hair is free, cascading down to his shoulder. A few locks covered his eyes. There is a sash wrapped around his waist, arrows were hooked to it. He looked very regal in her eyes, despite the apparent dirt spread around his kilt."You should rest, too," he said. There was a golden glow in his face from the lamp. It made the scar on his cheek more noticeable.Elinor wanted to trace his scar with her hand."I cannot sleep," she said, turning her attention back to the twins who were in deep slumber. "May I come in?"Elinor stopped and contemplated letting him inside. There is still this wary inside her whenever he's near.After some awkward sile