I let my finger tips slide against the bricked wall. Going over the rough edges and bumps as I walked to the back of the building facing a short walkway.
It was pitch black. I couldn't even see out the other side. I breathed in and took a glance behind me, once again making sure I was not being followed and walked as quietly as I could. The small rocks scratched and bounced faintly as my brown boots stepped down. 664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJP1Hb38BQa
The next wall guide me on as my fingers glided, this one was flat and smooth. I walked till my foot tapped against something. I took a small step back and kneeled down. I felt around with my hands and I clamped around a cold handle and looked around me slowly taking it in. This is the best part of the city that people like me, could hide but my nerves were making me jumpy because this is the best part of the city that people like me could be found. My heart pumped loudly in my ears when I slowly pull the handle, it creaked. Echoing off the walls.664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDMjhkgylhz
For descendants of witches. Abnormal abilities has been passed down throughout my father's side of generations and if anyone were to discover the truth. We would be tossed behind cold rusted bars, isolated and starved then left to die. That's if you were lucky.664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMV6bsFNH3e
If they suspect that you knew more than you weren't telling them; of the whereabouts of the nameless mount of demons or criminals. That's what the wealthy stocked is calling them. All of us apparently. I cannot say what they do to you exactly, no one can. Those secrets never makes it past those prison walls but it's enough for me to imagine.664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdfHv3H7EIV
Mother told us several decades ago, A small group of trustee members visited all of the studies throughout the state and were announced to be from the northern Burka union. It is known that a sea of men served as relentless and murderous beings who are not only cruel to witches but to everyone. They burned down libraries in every folk town till the buildings were cinder and ash.664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeupmf2rMmC
They chose to hunt and execute all things that were unnatural in their eyes.664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNZmxYJkD4U
I opened it wider and walked down a few steps sliding in quickly. There was voices coming from the bottom of the stairs behind a brown cloth. A faint light mixed with two tall shadows and a smaller one hunching slightly as if that person was sitting. I closed the door quietly and sat down. They weren't aware that I was here yet. There was a few moments where I could be by myself and I welcomed them each time. My eyes were watering up again for the one millionth time today. Of course I suppose it's normal to express grief this way.664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡllNKe5hIUY
Mother knew first.664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZzHjdSu14F
She was there when it happened, when she came home in tears and specks of blood on her clothes. I was shocked. Aister never had any family members in this town so no one took much grief, She only had us. My heart sings in sorrow with every memory of her.664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ6K9qdyxXp
She used to tell me stories when I was young, not the kind of fairy tales with happy endings but some things darker. She spoke about oceans with appealing women with tails of a fish that sang so beautifully, it can put any man in a trance, luring them into they're territory to devour the flesh of the men. Or forest trees with abnormal colored leaves. That could break any curse, spell, even breathes souls back into the hearts of the recently deceased. I hardly gave mind of where she heard of such myths, I was so intrigued that, I would sometimes dream of visiting those places.664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUm3HulAXLI
She was a sweet soft hearted woman always so patient with Daiya, so as expected. It hit her the hardest.664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5EDT1TxA5A
I remember her being so quick to rage, her heart would cry out in anger and deep anguish, it was like watching an open fire, it's energetic burning heat would rise up, growing larger each time it's fed. Turning everything to ash till it was put out. I felt my mind drift off to months back.664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpmEgleAJSB
Old stories were spreading across towns, of children taken from their homes disappearing into the night. Leaving behind deserted homes. Rotting corpses were found with throats cut open and they're bodies withering away. I heard a soft "Owh" cry come from the other side. My mother's shadow began to sway, I watched as she soothed the infant in her arms.664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUlpEFcuX9j
They more often than not take the males.664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQUOWxntzxW
"How much did you pay him?" I heard Daiya's loud voice.664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ52kcbidfPe
"It took a lot for him to commit to it but once I showed him what I have, he gave in. So about five silver coins". Mother said in a assuring tone.664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3rrsmK4d52
"You mean, you gave him Father's silver coins?". I sighed, Here we go. Agitation and confusion slithered as she spoke. "Yes Daiya I gave away you're father's coins-"664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS12x6APRVN
"That was the last thing we had of him. How could you-". She's cut off by the taller shadow's voice filled with irritation and annoyance."You don't think she knows that?". I swear I can feel them glaring at each other.664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAConKUX0l6
"You're father cared more about you and you're family than some silly coins". Daiya's always been so secretive when it comes to valuables from the people she's known. "Maybe you should to."664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwD0L14EeSa
A few years ago, She told us that she went to visit Father where he was buried.664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ43GzDxuq1l
She lied.
We hadn't seen her for that whole day. I found her laying in her bed. Her feet were dirty with a few small cuts here and there but her hands looked glossy and sticky.
Mother leaned in and smelled a certain sweetness to her and her stomach looked as if she had been well fed. Her and her friend had stolen some peaches from a carton I remember passing our streets.664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUfylFh4InA
The man spoke up again in a deep gruffly voice." Susan choose an excellent coachman. He is alone and in the back of his carriage is filled with freshly stocked wooden boxes, filled with jars of meats, fruits and vegetables."664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTw7UvAvFiF
I've never wanted to smelled anything sweeter than all those scents combined.664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUNfv4Mnf9E
I listened intensely as he continued." It'll be perfect enough to mask y'all's scents combined when we go underground".664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWYCA59Bllh
I stopped daydreaming and spoke out of shock. "Underground?". I stood up and pushed back the cloth. George with a shocked expression, the clock maker had on his unusual set of glasses. Mother's long hair was falling from its braid as her dark eyes searched my face in concern wrinkles showed in the corner of lips as she gave me a small smile and Daiya just stared at me in annoyance with her hand under her chin twirling a small silver tool that belonged to something of George's collections.664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ56fWpvmr2I
George spoke first." Ah, there you are". Theodore clapped his hands as he pulled away from mother's chest, a big silly smile aimed at me." I was beginning to feel a little worried, did you get lost again?". Mother asked. I bit my lip. 664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIRhc8SHBIY
"I've taken some shortcuts a little ways down the street". I trailed off and took an unconscious glanced at my sister, She had a smugged look and rolled her eyes." I wasn't followed though". I cleared my throat. She nodded.664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeUL7MBjxJa
George gazed at his watch. "We're late already, he's waiting for us so you people better get your things". We all followed him in a rushed pace. Mother turned to me as we walked.664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdlXOXBZy8S
"Here", She hands me one of her loose shirts from a sack over her shoulder. From here I peeked a small bag of bread with ham. She tossed Daiya one of her blanket." It should mask your scents". Mother came prepared even more so now that..incident happened.664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡblZw08zyWG
I swallowed down the feeling as I felt the shirt fall softly over as I bring it over my head. Daiya yawned wrapping the blanket around her." What about Theo?"664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVfkLVjZGwy
She sighed lifting him up on her hip." He'll be with me". Theo smiled at her rubbing his eyes.664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡevITgpjMaT
I made a mistake inhaling when George pulled back a dusty carpet. Daiya bent over with her hands over her mouth, her eyes teary. Mother had a cloth over Theo's mouth while holding one onto herself. I used my sleeve to cover my mouth shutting my eyes as more dust began to fly when He wipped at the floor. It finally began to settle when he lifted a handle. The wooden door fell with a creek.664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6MbgQxMVeK
He chuckled."Walla!". It was so dark that I couldn't make out any shapes. Two steps down was all I could see make out to be a staircase. Sounds of water dripping echoed and plink. 664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjRWUE5gIQO
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It was dark. The only way for us to know our destination was by someone small holding a lantern with him it glowed a soft light.
It wasn't useful, not even when our eyes began to adjust. We stumbled over rocks tucked into the earth or slid over flat surfaces that were difficult to stand on. Theo giggled into mother's neck as he hears Daiya foot slip and fall once again, she took another sharp blow to her knees colliding into the cold wet surface. She cursed while cleaning her hands in her thighs and marched alongside me.664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrsi0UafMrN
George went to a halt blocking my view from seeing who the small person was.664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzNUsaP8Nat
It looked like a child.664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdG6jYey78P
Why would George have a child guide us through a cave?664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoDLu8EBvtl
Confusion and curiosity made me quicken my step, Daiya's footing just as determined as mine. We were just a few steps away from George but stopped by mother blocking our path. Daiya sighed.664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6RpiU11vJ5
"Don't look him the eye". What?664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ3j7nNkPlJ
This person must be that important if they don't want us to see him.664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcY9kVGYGe4
"It don't like that". She sternly said.664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ46qChUXucD
I sighed as my sister spoke my frustration."Who are you talking about?".664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9mGPvnXrQ3
But all mom did was say. "Hush" putting her finger upfront of her lips. "Do as I say".664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYvGdOf0dJC
Our curiosity grew as we neared closer, Daiya began to grip my shirt uneasy. I for one was shaken up with urgency. We held back and waited for George's hushed tone to quieten down. My foot tapped soundlessly on the ground as Daiya showed her impatience by abruptly throwing a small rock at his head. He turned glaring and spoke a few more hushed words then stepped aside.664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOkZusHMv8Z
We gasped.664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQFKwFRcrum
That is not a child664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDSvmUzA0Ug
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If it's not a child.. then what is it?
What do you think of the characters so far?
Who was Aister?664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEhASSxH71J
& how did she die?
Are those fairytale stories real beings and places?664Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAl9wRpIJLF
