chapter 1 embers
Smoke filled Leah's nose, as she ran through the burning forest, she hated the smell of smoke and it was choking her. As she ran burning trees and hot embers fell around her. It felt as if the fire was chasseing her. Pulling two large battle axes from her back she started slashing through a large juniper bush, as she broke through a large wall of fire caught up to her sending the bush up in flames she just barely broke through, the heat sending her week limp body to the ground. The fire pulled back and Leah got up as fast as she fell , limping over to a small patch of grass she laid her axes down and laid her self down as well. She looks at her arms and legs, she had suffered second degree burns to the back of her thighs and calfs, her upper and lower arms were scorched, Leah looks and the burning forest with dismay "not only did I destroy an entire forest I have to burn my self even more" pulling her stele from the breast pocket on her dark brown leather jacket. Drawing a healing ruin on her wrist "I feel like this shouldn't hurt any more" she said tiredly as she dragged her crystal stele across her pail white skin. By now the sun was setting. "I should get back to findwell , Alex will be worried especially if he finds out about the fire." with a slow upset tone.
Opening the door to the Dawn weather home, the smell of blood and raw meat engulfed her and made her sick. Alex's father was a butcher but he catered to downworlders supplying meat and blood to the lycanthropes and the night children. "Alex im home!" propping her self on his door frame. "I can her your TV come on out!"
Alex lifted him self from the dusty recliner in his room. He had found it in an alleyway, he brought it home because was sick of his mothers antique chairs from Alicante.
Alex opened the door pushing pass Leah into the kitchen towards the old wood stove. "since when is this your home" Alex asked in some what of a rude tone, "since I cook and clean when your parents are away." "I can cook" Alex said shocked "no, you live of f of Chinese take out and pizza" Leah said jokingly. Alex warming his hands over the stove noticed Leahs brunt clothing and singed parts of her hair. 'Leah my dear girl what happened to you?" worried he turned to her to hear her story. "uh well" Leah said scared to tell Alex what she had done "I kind of burnt down part of a Canadian forest" trying to hide her face.
"Leah Lockhart how in the name of the angles did you accomplish that" Alex said with impeccable anger roaring in his eyes and tone of voice "I responded to a call upstate, for a demon that was causing a mess and when I killed it, it disincarnated into embers causing the fire" looking at her burnt boots, "might I ask what type of demon this was?" Alex with the empathy and anger in his eyes, "a Moloch," scared Alex was going to yell at her, Alex was the type of guy who could make you fill about two inches tall with just a glare, "go take a shower" he said disappointingly "now!' he yelped. Leah linked over to the door of the bathroom, she look at Alex before slipping inside.