Heart of Power: Awakening of the Siren by S.L. Giger

Author:S.L. Giger [Giger, S.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: S. L. Giger
Published: 2017-10-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Since we didn’t celebrate Thanksgiving in Switzerland, I didn’t know what it was all about. From what my friends at school had been mentioning, I learned that it involved a turkey and plenty of other food. Well, neither was very appealing to us. Roisin came over for a game day, leaving our house free of anything edible. We played Rummy, Yatzy and I taught them Jassen, a typical Swiss card game. I wondered why Cathy wasn’t present. After all, she was family, too. I had thought that she was close to Roisin and Melissa.

In mid-afternoon, we took an extended walk on the beach. The sky was a mixture of gray and black, and the clouds looked heavy as if they were announcing a downpour. This wilderness of the sky blended in perfectly with the now rather gray waves, which were thrown around by the wind. It was beautiful to witness this side of the ocean. For once and not the calm, picture perfect, crystal-like beach.

As we walked through the sand, Roisin and I somewhat ahead of Melissa and Luke, I asked her whether she had seen Cathy lately.

“Not since you have last seen her. Why?”

“I find it a little odd that she was there when I did my baby steps. She clearly was against me existing. And since then she has disappeared completely.”

Roisin was quiet for a moment and looked ahead into the distance. When she spoke, she seemed to choose her words carefully. “She can’t see eye to eye with Luke.”

“What’s not to like about Luke?” I raised an eyebrow.

“It’s not something she doesn’t like about him; it’s more the idea of Luke as one of us, which she finds hard to accept. But we’re all family, and I’m sure that eventually, she will come around. It might just take a few decades.” She rolled her eyes. Then Roisin continued. “Before Cathy came to New York, she lived close to Vancouver with another group. She was studying medicine. Plus, she was in love with a human guy. It was going great; they were very happy. He was extremely sporty and could keep up with her energy. But one day, during a basketball game, he just collapsed; sudden cardiac arrest. There was nothing anyone could do. Medical help was too far away, AED’s weren’t hanging in every public facility then. So the only thing she knew could help him, was jamming a needle into his heart.” Roisin shut her mouth tightly.

“He didn’t survive?” I asked.

“No, he did. But when he woke up, he ripped himself free and took off to go hunting. He killed the first guy that crossed his way. Dug his teeth into the guy’s chest, after pushing Cathy out of his way. He would have attacked more if there weren’t the others from the group in Vancouver who stopped him. And by stopping, I mean they killed him. Cut his head off and the rest into pieces and then burned him.”

“Omg,” I gulped.

“And all that with a wailing Cathy next to them.

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