Chapter 5 – The glow

As if answering her unsaid prayers, the sky suddenly glowed with an electrifying flash of lightening. This event was enough to attract the voltors’ attention away form her for a tiny little solitary moment; which left just about enough time for Aurora to make a dive for the nearest turn in the street.

And for the first time ever, luck was smiling down on her, for her quick thinking coupled with the suddenness of lightening managed to confuse the voltors for a minute. Voltors were stupid creatures, soul-thirsty stupid creatures! She should know, she had been in their company before!

Once again running for her life (Hah! Life!) with her newly found confidence, Aurora soon reached the end of the village. She knew this edge of the village well. She knew there was a stable around here. She used to get little Sophie to play with the horses. Horses! That was it! That’s what she needed!

She was bloody scared of horses, but she had consistently worked towards getting over her phobia. Horses were just animals…just like other animals, much gentler and nicer than herself for sure! She looked around for the stable. She started running in a direction where she thought the stable was. She ran, ran with all her might. With all the blood that was now done flowing through the little open sores in her feet. She ran! Towards a tiny light she saw.

She got closer, the light grew larger. But somehow something was amiss. It wasn’t the usual yellow light of a lamp. Instead it was a strange blue – green glow. She inched closer, suddenly not so sure of her choice of direction. The voltors were back on their course by now. She had exactly half a moment to decide – surrender to the known or embrace the unknown?

She chose the latter. Curiosity had always been Aurora’s weakest point!

She ran towards the light. For some strange reason, her heart was filled with wild hope…a hope of the unimaginable. A weird hope for survival. This sudden optimism made her shiver. Was this really the time to be behaving so stupid?

Sophie’s body felt lighter to Aurora. Was it the unknown feeling of baseless hope or had the voltors already got her baby. Now, for the first time Aurora really felt like she was losing her mind. The light was making her crazy. Bu she couldn’t stop herself from going towards it.

Finally, as she got closer, she realised it wasn’t light after all. It was a strange tall figure standing in front of her. Someone-something she had never seen before. And Aurora stopped. Stood rooted to the spot! What in Sceadusa’s name was that!

The tall figure looked at Aurora. It was a man…no not a man, a…a…a…something. A ghost maybe…! Yes that must be it! A ghost! Yes it…probably..was…one…

Aurora felt weak. She suddenly felt very weak. She didn’t know what was happening. She saw the voltors approaching…and the ghost…the green ghost was still there…or was he…Aurora didn’t know. She felt Sophie slip from her arms. She screamt. Yes Aurora screamt. She didn’t want to scream. But Sophie…Sophie was slipping. What…what was happening…where…huh…and it was all dark. The numb feeling was back again…but it was a peacefull numbness…like deep deep sleep.

and the rain poured on…

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