Guardian by Eli Kwake

Author:Eli Kwake [Kwake, Eli]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Eli Kwake

Interim

I see her coming this time. She is moving swiftly down the hallway, someone I don’t know trailing behind her. I wait, and soon, the door opens. She walks in, a tray in her hands. I feel my breath catch in my throat and stick there. I can’t breathe. I am too terrified. On the tray sits three tiny vials of liquid.

And I know what is coming.

“Not here,” I choke out.

She frowns slightly at me, a delicate wrinkling in the middle of her forehead. “I beg your pardon?”

“Not here,” I repeat. “Not here, not in front of the boy.”

She stares down at me coldly, and I see the refusal in her face.

“Please,” I say quietly.

She frowns just a small amount more. Her gaze slips over to the boy and falters. “You will not fight me this time?”

I bark a laugh. “What’s the point in fighting you now? No, I won’t fight.” That I am too weak to fight anyway, I do not say. I don’t want her to know what she has already done to me. What I have already done to me.

She unlocks the shackle on my wrist and helps me stand. I am too weak now to walk. The unknown man supports me as we walk from the room.

When we return, I am not even attempting to walk. The man is carrying me. He bangs me down on the metal table, hard, and reshackles my wrist.

Am I still screaming? I am definitely crying. I feel precious moisture leaking from my eyes as I stare up at the ceiling. My eyes will not focus. I’m in so much pain…but I know I will not have to endure this for much longer. Soon. I know it will be soon, now. I’m running out of time, and now I have even less of it.

Painfully, I turn, arguing with my rebelling eyes until they focus on the boy. He is only a few feet away, and I can barely see him. I shake my head, trying to clear it. Where was I in the story? I can’t remember…

No, wait. I can. The dream, in the forest. What came next? I can’t remember…

No. No! I’m not giving up! I follow the line of memory back and then forward again. I can remember!

I can remember…

I lick my cracked lips and speak again.

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