Descendant by Giles Nichole

Author:Giles, Nichole [Giles, Nichole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rhemalda Publishing
Published: 2013-04-27T05:00:00+00:00

The woman’s knees are pulled up to her chest as she alternates between sobbing and screaming. Shaking in fear, she raises her eyes at the sound of footsteps. Glowing veins of red mineral streak the black stone walls, the only light by which to see. A heavy metal door clangs open.

The wrinkled man who enters has only wisps of gray hair hanging to the nape of his neck. A bronze cloak wraps around and billows behind him, shimmering in the unnatural light. A jeweled crystal dagger rests in a sheath at his waist, and around his neck is a white stone shot through with the same red mineral that shimmers in the walls.

The woman huddles on the dirt floor, careful to stay clear of the glowing walls as tears wear rivulets through the dust on her cheeks. “Please,” she begs. “Please. She’s dying. I’m dying. Let me go. I can’t do what you want. I can’t.”

With great effort, she lifts her head to meet the eyes of her captor. “Have mercy.”

“Mercy? You mean the same mercy Damon showed me?”

“No!” she cries, her voice feeble. “The kind of mercy I know you have in you. Or at least you did once. Be a man, Tynan. Keeping me captive is not the answer. Killing me and my child won’t solve anything.”

His chuckle sounds morbid. “No. No, you ’re right about that. I have other plans for you and your ...” he grimaces as she sits straighter, her abdomen bulging, “offspring.”

More shaking, more tears. “Please let me out of here. This room is killing us. Both of us.”

“Soon,” he says. “Once my curse has fully developed, you will all be free. Free from my prison, free to kill each other with your very presence. Free to die. Over and over and over again.”

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