"Sophie, don't do it." Keefe pleads to me. I give him and odd look and raise an eyebrow. I was walking the halls, trying to get to study hall with all of my body guards, when suddenly Keefe had come up to me.
"What do you mean?" I ask when he catches up to me. Keefe stops in the middle of the hallway and I stop too. Suddenly we are the only ones in the halls. My bodyguards are gone. Some of the locker doors are still open, with papers falling out. I turn my attention back to Keefe.
"Keefe, what's going on? What's happening, where is everyone-"
"Sophie, don't tell Fitz about the scrolls. It will only break him, and you already broke a Vacker." My mouth drops open. Thousands of questions flow through my head and my heart begins to race. How did he know scrolls, why would he say that it would break him, and why in the elvin world would he say that I had already broken a Vacker.
The room fills to black, and nobody is with me. I call out, in hopes for someone to come back, Keefe gone and all of my bodyguards. Anxiety begins to fill in my chest.
"You weren't meant to love, only to fight. You are only a weapon. You can't win." voices hiss out into the blackness. I pant, I try to breath but only darkness surrounds me.
"And that is only what will surround you. We will never leave." the voices hiss again.
"And neither will you."
I scream out and my body flings myself forward on autopilot. I breathe heavily while Sandor and Bo rush into my room.
"What happened? Who's in here?" they question in their fighting stance. I wave my hand, dismissing them while trying to get words to work. I swallow a couple of times before I can speak.
"It was nothing, just a bad dream." I tell them, reaching for my glass of water, only to find it empty. I sigh and set it down on my nightstand. Sandor and Bo both give out a sigh of relief and begin to do a sweep around my room. They always do that. Whenever I have a bad dream, they come rushing in, thinking that there is something wrong, and when they find out that there isn't anything wrong, they do a full sweep of my room again just to make sure.
"Hey, we heard Sandor and Bo? Is everything okay?" Grady asks, while Edaline comes rushing into the room and hops onto my bed and hugs me. I nod and hug her back.
"It was just another nightmare. Nothing major." I told them, still squeezing Edaline. She hugs me harder and takes a deep breath.
"Do you wanna talk about it?" she whispers to me. I nod "but not with everyone here." I whisper back. She looks me in the eyes and nods her head, and then grabs my empty glass.
"Hey Grady, would you mind getting her some more water? And maybe some lushberry tea?" she asks him, handing him the glass. He smiles softly and takes the glass and walks out of the room.
"What happened?" I sigh and lay back down onto the bed, pillows cushioning my fall.
"It was another scrolls dream. But this time it was way more intense." I tell her quietly about the dream, not leaving a single detail out, and when I finish, Sandor and Bo have finished their inspection.
"Wow, that was a loaded one." Edaline says quietly, holding my hands and squeezing them.
"Here is your water and tea Soph." Grady says, handing my the cups of liquid. I smile at him and take both of the cups. He sits on the edge of my bed and slowly rubs Edaline's back.
"Sophie?" A small voice asks. I look up from my cups to see Flori's small frame in the doorway, the light from the hallway illuminating her from the dark room inside.
"Yeah?" I reply, setting both cups on my nightstand. I turn my body back to her, and sit more up on the bed.
"I remember Calla telling me about how she braided your hair that one time you couldn't sleep, and I know that this might be a lot to ask since I'm not her" Flori laughs quietly, moving more forward into the room. "But maybe I could do that for you now? I notice that you have been having a lot of nightmares lately, I thought why not give it a shot?"
"That sounds wonderful, Flori." I whisper loud enough for her to hear. Flori smiles and gracefully makes her way toward my side of the bed. Grady and Edaline get up off of my bed, and make their way to the doorway.
"I guess you don't need up now kiddo." Grady says to me, laughing. I smile back at him as Flori makes her way to sit behind me.
"I will always need you guys." I tell them. They smile, and for a split second, I see relief in their eyes.
"I love you guys. So much." I say, my heart swelling and pride flowing through me, that I have great parents just like this.
"We love you too Sophie, so much, you don't even know." Edaline responds.
"Goodnight mom, goodnight dad." I say into the darkness as they close the door and Flori begins her dance with her fingers through my hair.
"We love you too."
Okay, so this is my first fanfic for KOTLC. The chapters will be longer, but I just wanted to get this one out here and see how it did. I will be taking my time with these, and not posting regularly, as I still am a student and have school coming first. But summer starts soon, so hopefully I can do some more writing then. Until then, bare with me and always leave a review and a like. It all helps so much!