Day 4: most memorable moment
The Mirror scene, Why is everything from Hidden!? Alternately, to avoid going back to that (Because I've already written Neferet's story slightly after it) I'm going to write something different, about the second most memorable event.
Kalona
I felt the anticipation in the air around my earthly prison. I was so close to being finally freed when I felt that she was nearby. Not Neferet, the dark High Priestess who was about to free me, but A-ya. First, I felt anger. How dare she leave me here to go insane. Who was she to – that's when I realized it, the A-ya up there had to be reincarnated. It was any number of centuries ago that she had re become the earth she was fashioned from.
Finally, I felt the earth shake around me and release me. I pushed off the ground, feeling the excitement of being free. The tree atop the spot in the ground I had been ripped apart as I shot out of it. Neferet's face lit up like mine always had when Nyx was near me. I forced the thought back. Now was not the time to think about Nyx, now was time to fly, and to rejoice in the fact that I was free.
That's when my eyes locked with hers. There was fear in her big hazel eyes, like she found me terrifying. The sapphire marks around her face were evidence of her goddess's faith in her. I faltered at that. Nyx forced me out of her Otherworld and then took away A-ya. And here I thought she was above vengeance.
Neferet smirked at me from the ground as my children wreaked havoc on the city and A-ya and her friends escaped. "You look better in person." The Tsi Sgili appraised
I looked at the power, the Darkness that exuded from her. Then I looked at her. Long auburn hair and hard emerald eyes. Marks like Celtic knots, another one chosen by Nyx. However Neferet was equally fallen as me. I understood she liked to have me think I was the one who had introduced her to Darkness, the one who'd guided her to becoming Queen Tsi Sgili. She valued my pride and wanted to keep the truth hidden. I didn't care. It was irrelevant how she became implicated in all this, and I had no intention of telling her how I ended up here or why I fell.
I looked at her, trying to get into my head that she was merely a means of escape. Neferet was no more than an escape, and as I felt the chill from the void that was her heart. She was heartless, as was the white bull's pet name for her. Of course, there was no danger of me falling for her. The only one I loved was A-ya. I refused to say I loved Nyx. Neferet did not even resemble A-ya, with her sharp gaze and her long deep red hair.
"As do you" I responded after taking a long look at her body. I was through the phase where I wanted to jump anything that moved. I was going to have to pretend interest. I noted the ice whipping around the castle-like building. The lights around the city, in what I assumed were houses, in which mortals took refuge from the ice.
"Are you not curious as to the extent of my power?" Neferet asked "As to how I freed you from your earthen prison." And I could tell she wanted to boast.
I smiled "Your Darkness is enticing, my Tsi Sgili Queen. I can see it around you, like you're glowing." I figured the words would appease her.
She smiled "I had the archer wound Zoey's best friend. She was the 'Earth' that needed to bleed." Zoey was the girl Neferet had told me was her enemy. Zoey was Nyx's eyes and ears on earth and… wait. Zoey had to be the girl with the extra marks. Nyx would mark her as special. My A-ya was Nyx's eyes and ears in the world. Nyx was trying to steal her from me. Again.
"Zoey, she was the one with the extra marks, right?" I demanded, wanting to know definitively who my A-ya was.
Neferet appeared irked by my question "Zoey Redbird is of no concern to you. For tonight, my only concern is-"
The archer approached, toting his bow and flaunting the red crescent moon on his forehead. "I do not recall red fledglings." I stated
"I bought them back. Then that interfering Goddess had to get involved and claim them as her own." She argued
I felt a twinge as she mentioned Nyx. Neferet noticed the peculiar look on my face. "You too have had a run in with Nyx and her interference?" she asked
She doesn't interfere with freewill! I screamed mentally "I know all too much of the Goddess and her ways." I replied ambiguously, allowing her to think as she pleased.
Neferet smiled, clearly believing my statement as an open affront to all of Nyx's ways. "I like the way you think." She smiled "This is James Stark. I do believe he'll be quite useful considering he'll do whatever I say and cannot miss his target." She explained "Stark, I need you to watch for any signs of Zoey and her friends. Kalona, I need you to tell your children to seek out the red one. I think she'll be most effective in fragmenting morale." I called Rephaim over
"Spread the word. You need to seize the Red One and return her here should you see her." I explained, thinking of the pale blonde haired girl who was bleeding all over the ground and wondered what the big deal is. Rephaim went to go spread the word. Neferet escorted me to her chamber. After I was done with Neferet, and she slept, I decided to show A-ya that I was there. I closed my eyes and focused on this incarnation of her, Zoey Redbird, if I was not mistaken.
I saw her, walking through the meadow, uncertainly. That's when she noticed me.
"You hesitate, my love?" I asked
This is the shortest one, but I had homework, so sorry. More tomorrow. XX KShade.