Daughter of Fire by Stacey Willis

Author:Stacey Willis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stacey Willis

“…I’m sorry, sir,” Nina now whispered, reaching up to wipe her mouth with the back of her hand. Her apology brought Thanatos back to the present, and he shook his head slightly to reorientate his thoughts. “I should not…have waited…this long.”

He sighed and took off his blazer, before summoning a new shirt. The holes that Nina’s teeth had made were beginning to heal and would soon disappear. “You are right. How quickly did it start?”

“Slowly…about a week ago,” she murmured. “I suppose it went to full effect after —” She suddenly stopped short and went quiet.

Death frowned and folded his arms. “After what?” he asked. She did not say anything. “Nina,” he said more firmly, reaching over to tilt her chin up. She looked up at him begrudgingly with her normal dravite tourmaline eyes.

Gold was smeared on the corner of her mouth, and her all of her teeth were back to their natural variations.

“…Why had you been so upset earlier?” she whispered, frowning.

Thanatos frowned too, not recalling of what she was talking about.

“What do you mean?”

“The Dynamic Duo told me that you had a tantrum,” she sighed.

He raised an eyebrow. Tantrum? Dynamic Duo…?

It then became obvious to him: Savannah and Søren. That pair of clowns could not get along less if one locked them up in the same room.

As for their dismissive term for his outburst, he could not be bothered to retaliate in his state.

“I do not really want to talk about it,” Death said in a low voice. “Let us say that things were said and I was just rubbed up the wrong way.”

“Oh.”

He then stroked his chin, thinking about a sudden point. What did his anger have to do with the severity of Nina’s situation?

“…But why did that trigger your symptoms? Why did they fluctuate so suddenly?” he questioned aloud.

Nina’s gaze shifted and she bit her lip. Her face flushed a deep maroon. “…I don’t know,” she whispered.

A thought crossed Thanatos’ mind and it made him tense. Perhaps she had been worried about him. Her symptoms had worsened when she had been overly emotional, as he observed.

Which meant it was most likely that she had felt a surge of something —fear or perhaps even rage.

“There is no need to be ashamed, Nina,” he smiled weakly. “I cannot help you if you do not talk to me,” he said in a gentle tone.

She slowly shook her head. “I really do not know.”

She was closing herself off. She evidently did not want to tell him anything. But as much as Thanatos respected her choices, he could not help but feel a little wounded. He did not have time for this.

He shrugged his blazer back on and side stepped her.

“…Clean up and resume work in at least ten minutes,” he ordered. “And next time, do not wait until you’re on the verge of death to come to me.”

“Yes, sir,” she murmured.

He walked towards the door, before the room suddenly groaned.

He paused, and slowly turned to face Nina again. She looked as surprised as he did.

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