The Reaver Chronicles: Raziel

Chapter 3

Chapter 3

On the way back my mind was racing. We passed an old abandoned water well in the forest, and I couldn't help but remember my first experience with Mr. Kane. I was 9 and I was living with my mother in a small but cozy cottage on the edge of the pack land where I currently live now. We weren't in a pack back then it was just us me and her. I never knew my Father and my mother never bothered to bring him up. I figured if she never did I wouldn't either. I was forbidden to go to the well, it was too far from our cottage and to go alone would surely mean death, at least that is what I was told. I couldn't help my curiosity though, and would always try and sneak away to the well. My mother was around 5 foot 5, had long blonde hair to the middle of her back, she was an athletic build and had the most beautiful platinum silver eyes I had ever seen. I swear though those silver eyes were like Hawk eyes because she caught me every single time and made me come back. One time I somehow managed to escape her watch. I cried out in surprise when I reached the well, alone, and she hadn't caught me!! I stood there in awe as the well was absolutely beautiful, stunning large multicolored stones made up the main shaft of the well, with a dark stained wooden arch harnessing a single rope and matching stained bucket which could be lowered down Into the well. It looked as if the elements had never touched it. I could smell the clear crisp stream not far away which fed the well, and the water was a light turquoise blue in the stream so it would make sense that the water in the well would be too. I was leaning over the well to try and get a better look and see if my theory was right when I slipped and fell down Into the well. I felt my head go under the cool water and I held my breath. I opened my eyes underwater to realize it In fact was turquoise as I had thought. I knew how to swim, I knew how to defend myself too, my mother never let me be unprepared for anything. I can't recall a time when we weren't training or learning something new. As I bobbed back up head out of the crystal clear turquoise water my mind was racing. I was floating trying to contemplate a way to get myself out, I looked at the walls surrounding me and they were all perfectly flat, as if molded that way intentionally. As if all the years of corrosion and elements hadn't laid a finger on it. "My mom is going to straight kill me if I survive this'' I said out loud, and a voice that sounded like liquid gold purred back, "Then we might as well get you up and out of there, don't you think little one?" I froze, fear overtook me and I couldn't move, I couldn't speak, I couldn't think, I thought I was alone but apparently not. I snapped out of it just long enough to look up, and standing at the top of the well was the most gorgeous man I had ever in my life laid eyes on. At the time I didn't appreciate his beauty as I was too young to care about trivial things like that, but looking back he was about 6 foot tall, golden brown hair that was different lengths down to his shoulders and seemed to sparkle in the sunshine, his body was chiseled and defined, his facial features were perfectly symmetrical and he had the most beautiful golden amber colored eyes that seemed to glint and shine even as far away as I was. He was wearing a black suit, black suit pants and a golden suit vest over top of a black long sleeved button up shirt under his jacket, which he had just set aside as he started to lower the bucket to me. As soon as I saw his eyes the panic came flooding back, he wasn't just a strange man, he was a Reaver! I could tell by his golden eyes, and his liquid gold voice. All Reavers have eyes the colors of precious metals and voices just as silky and smooth. It's like everything about them was made to put you in complete awe. Reavers weren't only powerful, they were the most powerful creature in this world because they had the powers of all supernatural beings, plus a few of their very own. I was trapped at the bottom of the well with the most terrifying, dangerous creature I knew of waiting at the top... and I had no idea what to do.