Realms Apart - Chapter One - You Thought It Was Over
-Zoey Redbird-
TICK. TOCK.
TICK. TOCK.
TICK-TOCK. TICK-TOCK.
TICK-TOCK TICK-TOCK.
A frigid breeze swept across my skin. At first, I just put it down to the draughty tunnels we were currently living in, under Tulsa. I mean we were underground and it wasn't supposed to be perfect. But there was one thing we were all darn agreed on – that it was way better down here than staying at Tulsa's House Of Night, currently home of my ex-mentor, ex-high priestess turned tsi sgilli queen Neferet. Waaayy better. In fact, thinking it over, compared with everything which had happened these last few days, what was wrong with a little draught? It definitely beat fighting for your life just going to class and barely being able to keep your thoughts private from a pschcic queen on the side of Darkness, which as my okie best friend would say, "Is Darkness with a capital D." It was better than having to be taught vamp sociology by Neferet who could literally influence and control the threads of darkness which now pulse around her like a thick billowing cape. Hell, it was way better than having to make small talk with fledglings-turned-pod-people after a fallen angel was released from the ground and was falsely introduced as Erebus, Goddess Nyx's consort, who proved just how unlike Erebus he is when he murdered my childhood sweetheart and consort Heath Luck, subsequently shattering my soul. It was only after Stark had entered the realm of the otherworld to rescue me from becoming a wandering spirit who is never truly at peace when my soul reformed and we returned to the Isle of Skye. But not before kalona had killed stark and it was only when Nyx had demanded that Kalona repay the life debt he owed from murdering Heath and ordered him to sacrifice a sliver of his immortality that Stark was returned to life. When you think back over everything which has happened in the last few months, these tunnels aren't so bad at all, they're pretty comforting, as is the fact that Kalona's children, the raven mockers are repulsed by the earth so wouldn't dare to bother us down here. But as the icy breeze swept across me this time though, it felt as if it were chilling my blood. I snuggled deeper into my guardian's arms and tried to fall back asleep but I got that prickly feeling when someone is watching you. I froze and I heard a stirring above me. My lids flew open and met glinting, amber eyes.