The Keeper Sorceress

Silence

As my slumber lifts, My eyes take in every ray of light and without a doubt I know I've slept too long. A medium sized glass and silver chandelier hanging by the plain white ceiling. I get up and sit bringing my legs near my chest. Room is neither too big nor too small, it's of perfect size but dimly lit. Thin white curtains on the windows across the walls are almost translucent giving me peak of darkness and woods outside. I crawl out of the bed cautiously.

One foot on cold wooden floor sends strange jolts up my spine and forces me to hold bedpost for the support. Pressing my lips together to avoid making even the slightest of sound I keep second foot on the floor only to be welcomed by another strange jolt. Collecting what seems like my reserved strength I get up and walk to the window taking support of the wall near.

Vast forest with giant trees covers the area beyond glass window. I try to open the window but it's sealed shut no matter how hard I try it wouldn't open, so after couple of failed attempts I press my left ear against the window to hear if there are any movements down there but the night is as silent as it could be. When I hear nothing I step away from the window and try to remember where am I, Because this is not my palace or even my Wokozar. Nights in my kingdom are never silent, forests are always swarming with pups. Wokozar is not silent or deadly. 

"Wokozar felt safe, this place feels like a deadly prison"  I said to myself and my brain searched it's memory compartments for the answers. I lightly rubbed my left hands forearms to relax my taut muscles as I walked to the large sliding door in same wall as window. Again making sure to not make a single sound as I slide open the large wooden door. 

Fruity scent greeted me when I stepped inside. A large oval bathtub over slightly high wooden platform on my right and an oval mirror with a large marble sink over wooden platform on my left. I approached the mirror only to be greeted by a reflection that only resembles me. Purplish and yellowish blotches covering my right eye and corner of my white drying lips. My honey tanned skin now look as pale as a bloodsucker's skin.

"Whatever happened last night has not only taken every ounce of energy from my body, but it has taken fluid too. Whatever happened has sucked me dry" But why can't I remember what happened. I touched blotch under my eyes and racked my brain for answers, when some silent images flashed through my mind. I woke up in a cell and broke free with the help of powers I didn't know I was capable of summoning, then I searched for my family. Another image flashed of me healing Haziel who had silver sword stabbed in his stomach. Another image of a man finding me and dragging me away from Haziel muttering stupid little girl. I bit his hands and punched him in the face. And just when I turned around to run back to my brother another man caught hold of me, not thinking twice I attacked him and bit off his left ear, in return he pinned me to the ground and started punching me in the face.

I gasped and opened my eyes taking few steps away from the mirror as if at any time Cade would walk through it. 'Cade...the sorcerer'  he thought I would sleep for a day atleast and threw me in dungeon. But his spell wore off and I woke up. I summoned enough power to break free and searched for Haziel. It was easy to find him as he was in one of the cells on first floor.

A tear spills from eyes as the image of my brother with black marks covering his skin and silver sword through his stomach flashed before my eyes. Oxygen refused to enter my lunges making me feel suffocated and I opened my mouth to force air in but nothing seemed to work for as my lungs work to bring in the much needed oxygen, even then I feel as if I am drowning in the air. My brother was not making any sound at all, he was just lying there barely breathing when I found him.

I slapped a hand over my mouth to shut it. I tried to heal him, it wasn't easy he was "my brother was almost dead"  Silver is poison for wolves just like wooden stakes made from redwood tree are for Vampires. If a wolf is not provided proper aid in time after being stabbed with silver he or she dies.

I press hand on my mouth with my other hand and walk to the sink.

Even if wolves get aid in time, chances of survival after such serious damage made with silver weapon are negligible.

"No no no no no no no. Don't.you.dare.think.that" My reflection scolded me "Haziel is alive, don't you remember we healed him and it took every ounce of our power"

"But I never got a chance to check up on him. Cade pulled me away from him. I-I what do I do?" I asked myself in mirror.

"First thing first. We need to get out of here"

"But how, I don't even know where I am"

"For all we know this could be Cade's home and staying away from him is the safest option. Run"

Yes, if I want to find my family I need to get out of Cade's clutches first. Yes I need to run.

I silently open bedroom's door to slip out as my brain replays the last few scenes of my nightmare. Blood, hearts, ripped off heads. I shake my head to clear my mind of such images at least temporarily.

Standing in a open wide and sumptuous circular hallway I looked around. There are three more room right next to the one I was in. And apparently master bedroom with large and splendid mahogany doors, on the otherside of the circular wooden railing. I walked to the railing to see if there's someone downstairs but living room is as empty as this house and night seems to be. A giant antler chandelier hanging by the high rising ceiling is the only source of light in this hallway and downstairs. 

I step away from the railing and gulp. I have always hated darkness but this place...owner seems to be a darkness lover. Dimly lit rooms, hallway and living room, the silence it all just pushes me even more to runaway from here far far away when my legs are on the verge of giving up. A part of me just wants to cry to let out all the tears I am holding back, But that part is weakling and I couldn't let that part take over rest of me. I have to find my family and save them. 

I turned to my left where wide stairs leads to living room. I tiptoed downstairs, once in living room I tried to detect any kind of sound to see if there's anyone downstairs but once again silence greeted me. When I was sure there's no one here I looked for the way out. 

A small corridor with two candle stands on the either side and a door at the end caught my eyes "Way out" I said to myself and ran for the door not thinking anything else. And in that moment of carelessness I broke one of the two vases standing at the entrance of corridor which made me gasp and stop for a second to look around as a loud clatter broke the deadly and cold silence.

"There's no one here...for now" I told myself  "and if there is someone, he or she sure as hell won't find me"