Midnight's Song by Keely Victoria

Author:Keely Victoria
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, coming of age, adventure, fantasy, paranormal, dystopia, epic, fantasy romance, strong female character, sci fantasy

23 | Rescued

When I got home that day, no one in the entire house said a word to me for hours. It’s best that they didn’t, because had it not been for the fact that I knew I had to watch where I was stepping it would have been obvious that I was completely shell shocked. The moment that I walked through the door, they could all sense that something unspeakably bad must have happened to me. It caused a wave of distress to silently resonate across the entire household.

“…I don’t know what happened,” I could faintly hear Wren whispering to Grandmamma in the other room that evening. “After he asked to see her alone, they took us away from the door so that we couldn’t hear anything that was going on.”

“She has done all that she could do. And you, my dear – have done all that you could. What’s done is done. All we can do now is pray.”

The door was cracked open just the slightest bit for her to see me standing there in the corner of her eye. She beckoned for me to come in and sit at her bedside, and I shuddered. Grandmamma questioned me about today, asking me this and that even though she was clearly aware that I was too apprehensive to say a word. Her feeble hands trembling, she gently used her fingers to comb back the loose strands of hair that had fallen into my face. But, I pulled away. I was better off dead than here. As long as I was alive, I would be forced to remember that at any moment the Magistrate could rip her life away.

“Dearest, please don’t be afraid,” Grandmamma whispered. “No matter what has happened – you have made me proud. You’re stronger than this.”

No I wasn’t – and Grandmamma didn’t know what she was talking about. I was hated for reasons I simply couldn’t fathom, and no amount of courage or bravery could save them. She urged me to calm myself and have something to eat, but there was nothing I could stomach right now. So, I excused myself from dinner that night and took a walk in the garden.

I took in a breath of the fresh air. The beauty of nature was only a small bandage to me at this moment; a small, useless bandage over a mortal wound. What had I done to deserve this?

I escaped the courtyard into the maze, as I always did. This time the entire atmosphere felt void. I wanted to think that I’d find Rhys here – but the rational part of me completely condemned the thought. Right now any such hope seemed bleak and useless.

I wandered through the silent nighttime gardens, every leaf on the trees that hadn’t fallen to the ground lit by moonbeams that gave them each a silvery glow. The remnants of their shedding existed all over the ground; my feet crackling over each of the dead leaves as if they were the instruments in a symphony being conducted from below.

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