Xavier.We make camp. Setting up the tents and lighting a fire. Everything that Amelia said weighed heavily on my heart. The raw pain I heard when she talked about what Bianca and I did to her tore me to pieces.I always thought that I was a good person. That I was fair and just. That people could
Amelia.I am woken up by the snapping of a twig and Cerberus' low rumbling growl. Fuck! It was too early to deal with attacks.I look up to find that we are surrounded. This time not by the undead, but by the forsaken. The red eyes looked really menacing. All hint of human empathy completely gone fr
I stare at the river that is a total contrast to the forest that holds it. The water was a blue iridescent blue color that was shimmering with an otherworld glow. The riverbed was made of polished stones of all shapes and patterns that seemed to shift and change with the current.As it flowed downs
I watch the images in defeat as they keep replaying before me. Each and every one of them tore me apart again and again.When I agreed to come to the river, I thought it would be easy. Dip myself in the water and then emerge feeling like a burden has been lifted. That it would cleanse me of whatever
I let those words sink in and then stare at the memories with a new light. I see what they’re talking about. I’ve been trying to hide my scars. To escape what happened but I shouldn’t. What Bianca and Xavier did was shitty but I survived. I got a second chance. I got a life that I could never have i
When I open my eyes, I’m staring at the darkened sky of the forest. Blanca helps me stand up in the water. She is smiling at me, her eyes full of kindness and understanding.“You’re no longer surrounded by darkness, dear Amelia. Your heart is no longer burdened”, she tells me.I smiled back at her b
I wake up in the same field that I was in when I entered the cleansing river. My head and neck was throbbing. I rub the spot where the snake bit me but my hands come off with blood.“When you wake up, the wound will be healed” a very familiar voice says behind.I whip my head so fast that I get a cr
“Now we are going to teach you how to wake them up. It’s a complex ritual and you have to stay focused or else one wrong move and you will bring disaster to all of us. Do you understand?” The first one asked.“You have to do everything as we instruct you too. Follow it step by step and don’t skip a