Chapter Six- Louis's Loyalty
"Repeat this for me one more time."
Noona looked flushed and she was pacing back and forth, "Jimena and I...have figured out a spell/ritual thingy that could reverse the intensity of the Atrox's power.
"But I thought you don't understand the power of the Atrox yet!" Louis exclaimed.
"We...don't...Vanessa and Catty and Maggie are working on that. Reading Latin...stuff. " Louis sighed but looked lovingly at Noona with her red hair that was matted with stress-sweat and hanging limply like ribbons too long after Valentine's Day. Her eyes were juicy and alive like dark blue grapes.
"You need me to lend you the box. Do you know how to wield it? I don't even know if you wield a box. But...I trust you. I love you."
"I love you too. Thank you!" She nipped his nose and stroked the box as she lifted it out of its velvet wrapping. She skipped out of the hotel with Pandora's legend clutched at her breast.
Tonight was half-moon. Time was passing. Though kindly Louis was not as conscientious about the cycle as Noona, he could feel the dark of the moon getting nearer. It was going to be even more dangerous now- because he loved her.