Aurora had soon lapsed into another long spell of sleep. Her sleep was eventful. For the first time in years she was dreaming. They weren’t just dreams. She revisited the night when the prophecy was first made. The prophecy that had determined her destiny. She revisited the dark dungeons where the voltors had first held [...]
Chapter 6 – The strange room
She had melted. she couldn’t feel her limbs. and she felt strangely empty, like something was missing. Her eyes struggled to open. She wanted to but they couldn’t. She struggled harder…and was finally opened them. She looked around…and almost choked on her own breath!
She discovered herself wrapped in nothing but a silver sheet in an [...]
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 [...]
Chapter 4 – Voltors
They were coming…her voice told her. She could feel her pulse quickening. She had to hurry. She had to get out of here. She had to take Sophie’s corpse with her. She didn’t want to leave Sophie at their mercy.
She gathered the dead remains of her child in her shivering arms. She took one look [...]
Chapter 3 – Enigma
Jonathan Knightly had been everything she did not want. He was a good man. A man with principles and a sense of righteousness. And she could not stand it. He wasn’t a simpleton. But still, far too simple to understand her and her life. And she could not reveal her true identity to him. She dared [...]
Chapter 2 – A long night
She had been running. Running away from this very prediction. She did not want it to come true. Hadn’t she been warned about it? But the dark prophecy had come true. And she had killed Sophie.
All those years of self control…of self punishment and mutilation had not been able to stop her from wringing [...]
