Heart of Siren by D.N. Leo

Author:D.N. Leo [Leo, D.N.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Narrative Land Publishing
Published: 2019-05-30T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 24

Tadgh cursed to himself and used his mind’s eye to look at Tamari again. He imagined when Lavinia was this age, she looked just like this—a little angel. But what was missing now in Lavinia was the innocence. It was pure and deep in Tamari, and he could see a halo of it around her. All children were innocent at nine, Tadgh thought. But somehow he couldn’t connect the now cold and calculating Lavinia with what had once been an innocent girl.

“What’s your name?” the little girl asked.

“Tadgh. You said we’re alike. How?”

Tamari smiled. “We can vanish. Others sense when we’re nearby, but they can’t see us. We see each other because we are alike.”

“I don’t vanish. I dematerialize. There’s a fundamental difference between the two.”

“Oh, so is that why you can go through the door and I can’t? I’m invisible, but I’m still stuck here.”

Tadgh looked toward the doorway. “I don’t see a door. If you hadn’t called out to me, I wouldn’t have known you or this room existed. If I can only see you in my mind’s eye, how will I get you out of here? I can’t exactly open a door I can’t see.”

Tamari’s eyes gleamed with tears.

“All right, all right, let me think… Can you revert to your tangible form? If you can, maybe you won’t see the door anymore, and then you could simply walk away.”

“I don’t know how to get back to my tangible form. I used to know how to become invisible and then come back. But when they kidnapped me, they made me turn invisible, and since then, I haven’t been able to change back.”

Tears rolled down Tamari’s face.

Tadgh approached her. “How did they make you turn invisible?”

“They must have known about my ability, and that I often became invisible just for fun and to tease the people around me. Some big men jumped through the window into my chamber in the middle of the night. I couldn’t sleep that night, so I saw them come in. They came at me with knives and swords. One of them told the others to grab me quickly before I disappeared on them. That gave me the idea, so I turned myself invisible. But as soon as I did, they threw a net over me.” Tamari sat down and started crying again.

Tadgh said nothing. He couldn’t materialize now because the guard might see him.

Tamari swallowed her tears and continued. “They kept me in that net for a long time. Whenever I tried to become visible, it zapped me, and it hurt. For a while now, I haven’t been able to come back. Just like I’ve lost the way to go back to my family.” Her tears dried, and she stared into the distance. “I just want them to know I’m here.”

Tadgh could feel the blood in his formless body boiling with anger. What sort of creature would hurt a child? “Those people were very cruel to you. But you can’t lose the ability to go back to your original form.

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