NovelEnglishChapter One Hundred and Seventy Eight
It had been scary at first.
The knowledge that Nick was in total control was scary, but when | ignored those fears, it was simply amazing. |
looked down; from this height everything seemed smaller.
| lost track of tas we ‘flew’, but too soon we plummeted downwards, and Nick landed elegantly. Only then
did | notice how tight | had grasped onto his shirt.
“You could cdown now,” Nick says, and | nodded, but my legs wouldn't cooperate. He chuckled, helping me
down.
“That was... wow,” | commented.
“I know right?”
“Is she here?, the sorceress, | mean.”
“Yeah, cwith me,” he says. | followed after him.
We were in the woods; this had not been what | expected. A nervous feeling settled over
1. me.
Finally, Nick cto a stop. At this part of the woods, dense plants with terrdrils formed a curtain, blocking
our view from what lay ahead. Nick pushed aside the tendrils of the plants and walked in. | hesitated before
following.
In the little space, there were even more flowers, their intertwined vines forming a secluded nook.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇt| saw the sorceress for the first time.
Her eyes... They remindedof those of the elders.
| could tell she had been around for a long, long time. Her face was grim, as if we had disturbed her peace
and quiet. She was thin-sickly thin-with sharp features.
“We are here just as | earlier....
She cut Nick off. “My services are not cheap; pay up.”
I quickly passed the bag to her; she ripped it open and then stared at it. Her eyes found mine. She had this
eerie feeling to her. She walked towards me, and it tooksgreat effort not to step back.
| could feel Nick’s gaze on me, reassuringthat everything was fine.
Her long fingers trailed down my face; her hands were cold-very cold. | held back a shiver.
“The Banished Queen,” she whispered, and | flinched; her words cut deep. | didn’t like this woman very
much.
“I chere for...
Again she cutoff, speaking over me, “I know what you chere for; | see it in your eyes; you are in
search of a gift never freely given to you; you are here because you want to fight fate, and could that be
impossible?” She asked, walking away.
| hadn't noticed the very skinny cat with red glittering eyes earlier. Nowshe patted its head gently, like it was
the most adorable thing she had ever seen. She kept us waiting for five whole minutes, and when she
returned, there was a knife in her hand. | backed away, but she heldfirm and damn was she strong.
And then she chopped off a small portion of my hair. “This is payment enough,” she says, placing the strands
of my hair on a moss-covered altar, just beside the bag of jewelry | had given her.
“You,” she pointed the knifé to Nick. “Come,” she ordered, and he lifted the sleeves of his shirt before
approaching her. “You do know what you are about to do,” she says to him, and he nods.
She slit Nick’s flesh with the knife and let his blood pour into a bowl; her voice rose as she chanted foreign
words, and then she took the sknife, splitting her own skin and also collecting the blood into the bowl.
She walked towith the bowl.
“Your wolf could be overcomed, but you will be powerful. This is what you want,” she stated.
| nodded slowly, there was no need
denying it, that was the [easqn las
here. "You rmenbi She ordered,
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She muttered more foreign words, and the mixture turned a dark shade of blue.
“Do what you must,” she said to Nick, and he walked cautiously towards me.
“I'm sorry,” he says, and that’s when it hit me-something was very wrong.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏm“Now,” the sorceress said, and he held onto me. | tried moving, but it was like | had been placed under a
spell; | couldn't move, and just then Nick bit into my arm.
Memories | should have forgotten
flashed past my mind and then the
pain set in. | screamed QuIilKiny
veiog tUméd NoStse, but the pain
wouldn't stop, all | felt was hot
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Now Nick heldfirmly, he must
have beerr trying to tellm
something byt his Wofdd Were lost as
the pain Yook over my senses, leaving
only one desperate thought in my
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Could this be what death felt like?
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