Chapter Ten
Mavros had been wandering in the woods for hours. Raja and his ex-fiancee had both yelled at him, Raja for lying to her and Ellisa for denying her.
He couldn't take their screaming, so he ran away.
Just like you always do. Coward. Worse than that even at times. A true low-life. He berated himself even as he wandered deeper into the forest. He paid no mind to the direction he was going, and was lost in just five minutes.
Good job, imbecile. He said as he realized he didn't know the way back.
He had been walking for a few minutes when he tripped over a doll. The kind of rg that would only belng to the poorest of citizens.
But who in their right minds would live out in this dark (not to mention dangerous) forest with children?
He dismissed the thought and continued on his distorted way.
A while later he saw what looked like a road. He didn't know if it was going deeper into the forest or if it would lead out of the forest but he did know that it lead somewhere other than the nowhere that he was headed towards.
Two hours (he had nothing better to do but count the minutes as they went by) later he was in a place that didn't really look any different from where he had stood two hours ago.
He decided to turn around and see if he was going deeper instead of out...
And ran into something solid and forboding.
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Amethyst woke and found that she could open her eyes... and move her legs.
She panicked. She didn't heal that fast.
"Oh calm down. I healed you. I guess I do have a problem with maintaining my patience."
She turned over onto her back so that she could see the whole room and saw Gavin sitting in a chair in the doorway. No way out. There were no windows. No escape.
"Why?" she asked, sitting up. She had a cramp in her back so she streched out until she heard something pop and the pain started to abate.
"Because I need you alive and I need to start teaching you how to use your power."
"And I repeat: why?" She cracked her back in two more places by leaning over to the side. She started her dancer stretches, just to see what Gavin woud say. He merely watched her looking amused.
"How long have you been dancing?" He asked instead of answering.
"Not long. A few years."
"Have you taken your vows?"
It was a moment before she could respond. She was doing a particularly difficult strech that required her concentration so she wouldn't fall, especially since it had been a couple days since she'd last walked.
"No," she lied.
"What dances do you know?" He asked.
"Are you going to answer my question?"
"Yes. Right after you answer mine."
"Namir-da, daraci kain, all of the melos. Nothing too big or complicated."
"Do you know Maeve's Seduction?"
"Answer my question."
"Because your mother left you something that I want back and I need you to get to it."
"No. I don't know Maeve's Seduction. I'll never perform it so I thought it better if I just never learned it."
"Keep your face down when you lie and you may get better at it. Your lip twitches."
Amethyst made no comment as she ontinued with her strech. She was bent backwards with her hands on the floor. She slowly began to walk her hands around in a circle without moving her legs.
The rest of her back cracked into place.
"That sounded painful." Gavin commented.
"Felt good."
"If you could lie better I would let you get some water. As it is, I want the truth from you."
"What do you want to know?"
"Two true answers for every lie. If you don't lie this will go quickly."
Amethyst had to remind herself that she was the captive here and it wouldn't do any good to argue with her "host".
"Fine what do you want to know."
"Have you taken your vows?"
"Yes. Just this year. what does any of this have to do with you?"
"I will tell you when it matters. Who is your teacher?"
"Anibell."
"Have a seat. We will still be a while."
Amethyst plopped down on the bed. Hopefully he didn't want too much.
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Urban deided to take three of his guars on a "pleasure ride" into the forest. Given his true purpose, his guards would never have let him go, but if they thought he just wanted to have fun, they would have no reason to object.
Now he searched the ground looking for prints. Not of wolves and deer like he was supposed to, but of the demons who carried his love away. Every once in a while he cold smell blood, but he passed it off as his imagination. He lost track of time, he was so intent on learning where Amethyst had gone to.
He hadn't noticed that it had started to get dark.
"Milord?" Came one of the guards.
"What is it? Did you find anything?" Urban asked quickly, never lifting his eyes off of the ground, searching.
"No... it's just that... ummm... well..." The guard stuttered. Urban became impatient.
"Well what is it?" Urban pressed, still not looking up from the ground.
"Well, Milord, you see... It is very late and... it's getting dark... and the castle is far behind us. The other guards and I think we should begin to head back." The guard said, stuttering and speaking so low that it was hard to hear him.
Urban wouldn't have heard him anyway; he had found what he was looking for.
He followed the tracks through the forest.
"Milord it's dark! And it's dangerous! Come back!" the alerted gusard yelled out. Urban looked up at him with a menacing glow to his eyes.
"I'm a demon. I don't think that there will be any problem with the dark or with the danger. You and the rest of the humans return if you wish. I have something I need to do. My goal is to be done with this and back to the palace by noon tomorrow." He actually meant to be done at dawn, sneak into his room and have Amethyst announced as his fiancee by noon, but he wasn't going to tell him that.
"Go back to the palace, take the others and tell my father I'm staying with... within the forest tonight. I have friends nearby. Tell no one else." He ordered the guard in the most authentic voice he could muster what with the excitement behind his voice, making it shake. "Am I understood?" He asked the shaking guardsman.
"Y-y-yes sir!" He said and turned running to the others.
Urban turned in the direction of the tracks. He very rarely needed his demon form and had thusly forgotten how hightened his senses were when in his other form. He could see the ground as if it were noon and he could hear for miles. even better, he could smell what was obviously the sent of Amethyst; it was the most intriguing smell around him at the moment.
"Hold on, my love. I'm comming for you and they will all pay for what they have done to you." He vowed under his breath. He took off to follow the tracks.