Chapter 3
"A cigarette is the perfect type of perfect
pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one
unsatisfied. What more can one want?"
—OSCAR WILDE, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Roiben awoke with the feeling of dread, he hadn't repaid the debt yet and it was painful, he had never not repaid a debt straight away he had only heard how painful it was and now he was feeling it, it was excruciating, I had to find her and repay the debt, but all I knew about her was her name, and what she looked like. Even though I had found her the dream kept haunting me like there was more to what happened last night then I first thought, but what more could there be. A loud rapping noise at my door woke me from my thoughts. I got up from my bed and walked to the door, I noticed that I hadn't changed out of my amour; I must have fallen asleep in it.
I opened the door and there was no one there. But on the floor was an envelope, then I remembered I had asked one of the servants of the Court to find out who shot me so that I could punish them. I never thought that I was so cold hearted, but honestly I wanted to go and say thank you. Under the name of the name was a note from the Queen saying I was to kill this evil so that he/she can't hurt my servant again. The Queen was a pain. But I was her servant and will do as she said as I don't have much say in the matter. I looked at the name and left to find this Gristle. I grabbed the arrows from beside the door and went off to kill the man who tried to kill me.
Kaye looked around her bedroom. Her clothes lay in drifts on the floor, most still in the black garbage bags. All the furniture was the same as it had been when she was four, child-size white furniture, pink walls, and a reproachful, glass-eyed army of dolls arranged in the bookshelves.
Kaye had to find Gristle and Spike. She hadn't ever needed to call them before. They'd always been around when she had needed them. But that was when she had been little, when she had believed in everything, before her legs stuck out over the end of the bed and she had to bend over to see her face in the dresser mirror. Kaye sighed. She guessed that she wasn't really unicorn-pure anymore. Maybe that kind of thing mattered.
I stormed around the forest from last night the murder might not have moved he might have stayed where he shot me from. I scanned the trees and found a clue, a small ribbon of blue. Last night in the storm I wouldn't have been able to see the ribbon, but now it was as clear as day. I walked over towards the ribbon and lifted it to my nose I took a deep breath in and smelt him. Then realised that he wasn't far away and followed his trail.
I found him running away from the group of dogs that the queen had sent out to find him, I raised my bow and aimed at him sadly I wasn't going to be able to thank him but, I would end his misery. The arrow sailed with precision and hit the pixie square in the chest and he fell forward, already dead, blood slowly seeping out of his chest. That was when his friends popped out from there hiding places and realised what had happened and burst into action, they raced up towards me and stopped. "Why did you kill Gristle?" one of them asked. "I killed the one you called Gristle because the Queen told me to and I cannot disobey the Queen. Although I did not want to kill the one you call Gristle all I wanted to do was thank him but the Queen said I was to kill him." I replied. "Why ever in the world would you want to thank Gristle he shot you last night and knew it would come back and haunt him, but he said it was for the best and it was the right thing to do by her?" the other one said "I wanted to thank him for shooting me, causing me grate pain but that's not why I wanted to thank him, but because his pain caused me to meet the most beautiful mortal, to who I wish to see again." Then the one who had just spoken disappeared into the forest. "I am sorry that I had to kill him but I had too, now you know I wish you farewell and best wishes, I will be on my way." And I turned on my heel and left.