Chapter 21 - Death
All heard the terrified scream from an animal out from the corridor. They all looked how Daine moved toward the door and they all looked how a blonde woman attacked her and stuck a jeweled dagger repeatedly into her stomach. It was as if the sound around them silenced. It was only Daine's terrifying scream that were heard. What they saw next was black flames that surrounded the blonde woman, then mixed violet flame itself and sapphire blue, and finally gray. The mixture of black, gray, violet and blue lifted the blonde woman up and threw her into the large oak door that only seconds earlier had closed. The woman sank lifeless to the floor. The people in the room stood as frozen to the spot, then the table they had sat at the banque was trown into the opposite wall, where plates, glasses and dishes crashed to the floor. The way to Daine was no longer blocked and Numair rushed forward with Alanna by his side. He had quickly recognized the blonde woman as Julianna and had with horror painted on the face seen how she had attacked his magelet.
He was many emotions; furious, frightened, scared, and above all ... fear that he was losing his one and all. "Alanna" he screamed as he pressed his hands against the many wounds that could be seen through the dress fabric. "Do something!" The blood flowed out between his fingers. He was pushed hard away when Alanna came and crept up to Daine head, where he gently lay down. He dared not touch her, and when he saw how she turned her head toward him and whispered his name, tears flowed. "Magelet...I'm here" he said with his cheek against the floor while he looked at her. The long curly hair encircled her face and the violet light from Alanna's magic made her face softer. She looked beautiful.
He reached for her hand, and didn't seem to notis that his own was red from the blood. With her hans in his he felt how Alanna sent all her raw power into Daine. As he looked at her he noticed that blood had stained Daine's lips red and it begane to trickle slowly from her corner of the mouth and down her cheek.
Her blue gray eyes stared into his in a quite moment while she whispered softly "I love you". Then she closed her eyes.
"No ... please," he begged her while her hand went limp in her. "Stay with me".
Numair noticed how Alanna's magic disappeared from Daine's body. He registered that Alanna broke out in silent tears, not far from him. How he heard Thayet moan and Onua's sorrowful scream. He saw how the last air escaped from Daine's red lips and how her life force disappeared in front of him. Slowly it dawned on him that she was gone, she was dead. Weeping he looked at Alanna, who sat and rocked back and forth in the arms of her husband, with tears running down her cheeks. Numair pulled Daine's lifeless body closer to him and wept silently into her long curly brown hair, rocking her. He called quietly for her while his tears hit her light pink cheeks. "No," he screamed loudly and pulled her to him. Sobbing, he sat up and cradled her lifeless body. His heart broke into a thousand pieces while his hand lay against her cheek and he lifted her face and gently laid his lips against hers, giving her a light soft kiss. The the silence around them broke completely. Every dog, cat, horse, mouse, rats, bird...every animal screamed their grief.