“The stage is set, this is it, you have to decide. What do you want?” The words were delivered off of her lips dripping with a crimson liquid. As though it was an aria performed only by nature itself. The wind was intertwining her strands of beautiful aurelion hair. As those strands whisked through the air I could only imagine that they were strings of scarlet guiding me to the beautiful creature which they were connected to. I was certain that here under the foliage of an autumn-scape the rest of my life was in question. Not just the one that I would embrace on this earth but also my destined place of eternity. This was it, by a divine orchestrator everything had been set into place.
“I want you.” My desires were ignited, an infinite passion that could be satisfied by nothing but if she were to flood into all of my senses. I didn’t even know exactly what she was but my curiosity was greater than my fear. The small creature she held in her hands was struggling for life struggling for freedom and breath. No matter the scenario, no matter what I chose, I knew that if I walked away now she would forever grasp my mentality. I would struggle for life, struggle for breath, finding no escape from regret.
“Is that true now? Would you really be with me no matter what? Even seeing me now, consuming another living being as though I were a beast. Aren’t you scared that I also may crave your flesh and blood?” She tightly clutched the rabbit, her teeth that resembled that of a dog sunk into the creature as the blood dripped down her hand. In an instant the creature stopped squirming, remaining lifeless suffocated between her feathered hands.
“I could just as well consume your flesh and blood, in fact I think I crave yours more than you crave mine.” I bit my lip in anticipation.
“Oh, very interesting, do you want to elope with me”
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“Are you absolutely sure that you’re okay?” Anyone at this point would be able to tell that the boy had been devoid of energy and melanin for two weeks. One may even presume that someone was sucking it out of him. That boy that I found to be more precious than anything was fading between my fingertips and there was absolutely nothing that I could do about it. Ever since the day he began to venture out into the forest at night he had become so terribly distant from me and now I’m not even sure there’s a piece of him left inside of that pale husk of flesh.
“I’m waiting for someone to come for me.” He replied dully with his crystal blue eyes that were once filled with life with a longing for something greater. I couldn’t tell whether he had given up or this was the look he had been given when completely satiated. Either way I couldn’t grasp it now could I understand it in full.
“And who is that?” I placed my hand onto his desk wanting more than just answers. I wanted him to smile exactly how he did on that day when he first met me. We had spent so many years with our shadows etched across wood listening to the same voices yet maybe our eyes had been seeing two different things this entire time.
“Someone who doesn’t think that I’m a monster, I’m joining her tonight. This will be the last time that you’ll ever see me, okay?” He dug his nails into the coating of a strange substance over the desk dragging them through it. He bit the dry skin away from his lips penetrating the upper layer causing a drop of blood to shine through almost glistening
“What are you talking about? No one thinks that you’re a monster but everyone’s going to think that you’re crazy if you keep talking like this!” With these words I accidentally alerted the teacher, but only because I so strongly desired for him to look at me with those same eyes he used to. I’ve come to doubt that they even exist anymore.
“Savanna! This is now the fifth time that you have interrupted class this period. Either move your seat away from Silas or you can move yourself to the president's office.” My choice was obvious, I could feel my entire face burn bright as I turned to Silas dazed as though I didn’t exist. Perhaps it was my after all that I would pull back the curtains of my fantasies to find that my scarlet string was tied to no one. I stood up unable to contain the internal dread while I was confined to my seat. My mind was rushing and so were my legs as I marched away from the haunting scene and away from Silas.
Somewhere on the path I was forging out of my passionate anger and sorrow surrounding Silas at the moment I encountered another boy who usually attended my class but due to mysterious circumstances had been absent quite often. I suppose that at one point I was well acquainted with him and would even call him a friend if you asked me. However with time I suppose it faded, but despite all of that whenever I encountered him there was still some sort of spark igniting within me. Perhaps a longing for things to be how they once were or something much deeper.
"Hey Savanna. We haven't talked since Silas well, in second though let's not think about it.' The tall boy fumbled through strands of aurelion hair that streamed from his scalp in the likeness of feathers strewn together by threads. He was obviously nervous from the encounter that no one could have possibly anticipated.
"Hey, Emil. I didn't really mean to stop talking to you since the incident it's just that my priority was making sure that Silas was okay above all else. And since you weren't coming to school I couldn't go out of my way to find you." I answered also fumbling through the lose strand of hair from my ponytail that hung over my shoulder. So many emotion pent up inside of me, anger, disgust and I didn't want Emil to be the one I let it out on.
"I know that it's tough, needing to pretend that everything is back to normal when it's not." He invited himself to wrapping his arms around me in warm embrace. My heart accepted it and the burning rage subsided yet the disgust I felt for myself was still deeply satiated. No tender words of comfort could bring Silas back or fix the fact I resented his survival while loving him.
"Silas died! I saw his dead body bleeding out, I saw those lifeless eyes stare back into mine. Everyone says that I should be happy that he survived but this confusion is almost paralyzing. I don't want him to die, but there is no other way to explain it. How am I just supposed to accept the fact that someone who I saw seize and flat line on that hospital bed magically revived and walked through that door as if it never happened? I see his dead corpse walk through that door every single morning but it is not me just seeing things. I want the real Silas back not that corpse!" At this point within the warm embrace of Emil my heart that had been containing everything began to melt releasing every tear I've wanted to cry since that day.
Emil gently pulled me away from him so we could make direct eyes contact. "Savanna, I was there too, I understand exactly how you feel, we're going to find out what happened to him together."
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We were well acquainted ever since we were young, it was always the three of us. Silas, Savanna and I somehow living as one entity in a world I though I would forever be an outcast in. In a world that I would forever be condemned there were a few that chose to stand by side. Perhaps it was out of ignorance or just some ulterior motive.
We were in the same class and we spent nearly every moment of the day together. Everything we did we believed that there was something invisible, a force from some great puppeteer that tied us together no matter what. Death could be that only thing that separated us from each other. The only thing that could possibly break the bond that we had formed over these years. A relationship that was not yet corrupt by the evil desires that lie deeper in humanity.
Alas human life is so feeble, it's temporary and defined by its fragility. If any condition is not kept to an exact standard survival is futile for the mortal soul. That is what separates me from them, that is why I cannot wish for happiness nor can I wish for love unless I plan to bring the blade to my own throat. What is a blessing or a curse to grow alongside them? When it was inevitable that Silas would eventually be taken up from under me, even though he is gone and replaced with that monster I can't even confide in Savanna knowing that she will soon fade away. While my beauty is eternal hers is only temporary.
Silas slipped away from us into a pool of blood, but I've come to question if that blood was even his.
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In that sacred place I found my sanctuary, a moment of true bliss as love blossomed and flourished under the autumn foliage which soon shifted into an winter slate. So peaceful, bountiful and with every moment possibilities as to what this beautiful exchange could be multiplied. We were in utmost tranquility and sanctum and there was nothing in the world that mattered more. Nothing that could sever the scarlet string that bound us. With each passing day I craved to devour the blood of this bird, finding it more satiating than any human could ever satisfy. I needed it now, now and desperately.
"Do you still want to run away with me, away from those who would only continue to cause you and I pain?" I've come to know this Harpy by the name of romance. I've come to question true identity hidden within those prismatic spheres encased in skin. Even more so I come to question when did it come to this?
My head rests in the soft thighs of the Harpy as her feathers caress my my cheek. Her vibrant eyes, I can't tell whether or not she truly returns my feeling but there is something wrong. Something dreadfully wrong about the decision to abandon this world, " I could take you up into the sky. Where you should have been long ago in that night where you -" Her voice resounded in my ears like wind chimes until she was left silent, hesitant held back by strong agony.
"The stage is set, this is it, you have to make a decision, those are the words that you told me when I first followed you into this forest at night. It has been a three months since that night and every single night I have been ready yet you seem hesitant. Why is that" I spoke with a passion, as for the first time in months I questioned my brash decision. Savanna was somewhere in the outside having no idea of the truth watching me slowly deteriorate and was the only one to care.
"Do you love someone else already?" The words sent a cascade of bullets through her heart as tears began to well within her eyes.
"By the looks of it I'd say that you're the one who isn't ready. Do you love someone else already?" I arose from her thighs, a harpy's job is to consume and destroy, a harpy is a beautiful yet vile creature. To think that they are capable of love, and not just forged of my greatest weakness is enough of a revelation. However beyond that who, is love of this harpy?
"I can't take you away yet, I'm going to do everything to bring you back for the sake of my love. So don't think this is the end our story, Vampire" The harpy gently caressed my cheeks with soft lips drenched in blood. She then arose and flew away but I'm sure that I'll see him again tomorrow, in class, or while see her again tomorrow at this tree. Once more there will be a sorrow until I find the harpy's human companion. Then I will drain every bit of life that resides in him just as I lick the blood that resides on my cheek, whether they be harpy, vampire or human.
To be continued........
Maybe.........
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