Nuit Noire by Carol Robi

Author:Carol Robi [Robi, Carol]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-08-29T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

The burst of fresh air when I finally make it out is welcomed, fanning my warm cheeks. But I do not revel in it too much, not wanting Gauthier to slip past me and attempt to get away.

He steps out a few seconds later, an uncomfortable look about him as it is now his turn to be afraid of me. It amazes me to think that all I ever had to do was attempt to touch him to make him squirm. Why didn’t I do it sooner? He was clear from the beginning about not wanting to be touched. If I’d thought of it sooner, I’d never have let him force me into that nightclub with him. I’d have always had the upper hand.

“Why can’t I touch you?” I ask him as soon as we’ve walked away from the main door, and I’ve made sure that no one out here is at a listening distance.

“Because I’ll hurt you,” he says simply.

“How?”

“Your energy, your breath- I’ll take it. I could take enough to kill you,” he answers begrudgingly, maintaining an equal distance away from me, backing away with each step I take closer to him.

“Why?” I ask. “Why will you take it?” By now he is leaning against the wall, a foreboding looking crossing his features as he eyes my outstretched fingers warily.

“Because that is what creatures like me do,” he resigns to answer.

“And what exactly are you?” I ask with trepidation.

“Sophia..”

“Tell me!” I say in a harsh whisper, taking another step closer to him, and yet another, until he is pressed tight against the wall, his gloved palms pressing against it, as though fighting an urge to pull me into his arms. Suddenly I too am now fighting against the urge to collapse into his arms.

“Don’t get any closer. I’ll tell you. I’ll tell you all you need to know. If you get any closer, you’d not stop yourself from coming to me. You feel it too, don’t you?” I nod fearfully, for I do feel it. The dizzying gravitational pull around him, the growing idea that I wont be safe until I press my body to his, touch him, press my lips to his, lose myself to him.

“What are you?” I ask in a ragged whisper.

“A draugr.” The word sounds foreign and incomprehensible.

“What is that?”

“An immortal being. A ghost, of sort..”

“But..” I start to reach out, but he quickly swings away so that I touch the cold brick where his head had been.

“I am not a ghost,” he says. “Not anymore. I am solid now. I used to be just a lingering spirit seeking to close up my unfinished business before moving on, when father touched me and made me into a draugr.”

“You have a body,” I point out, for as far as I know, spirits shouldn’t have solid bodies.

“I do,” he says, “because draugrs have bodies unlike mere ghosts.”

“How?”

“We have the ability to absorb energy from human beings, and that energy makes us strong enough to have bodies.

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