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“Why would you promise her your heart for mine?” he says.
“Because It was already broken to begin with, son but you, you will make it whole again” I said before coughing, blood covering the palm of her hand.
“Go play with your sister, be a good brother to katarina” I tell him. He nods, wrapping his arms around my neck, hugging me before running off. I watch them play for a bit before the coughing starts.
I fall back on the grass staring at the clouds before I gasp, the picture flicking forward again but now stopping. I am standing on some wooden platform in the centre of a village with my hands tied to a wooden pole. People yelling and screaming and throwing things at me.
“Witch, witch, witch” they chant.
“Katarina!” I hear a man scream.
My eyes scan the crowd when they land on a man, identical to Micha though slightly different. His shirt slightly open, a glowing fluorescent blue scar on his chest like Marabella had on hers. In his arms he clutched a baby.
“Take care of her brother” I mouth to him, and he nods. His face stained with tears before he nods disappearing into the crowd before the podium on which I stand is set alight, my dress catching fire and I stamp my feet, trying to put out the flames before stilling knowing it’s useless and I look up at the sky.
I closed my eyes glad for her safety, he would keep her safe. I think as my body is engulfed in flames making me scream before I am thrown out of my nightmare screaming in agony.
My eyes focus on the room, and I look down frantically patting my clothes when hands grab mine. My breathing heavy as I tried to catch my breath.
“Kat!, Kat?” Ezra says before clamping his hands on my face. He sighs, putting his head down. “Thank the Goddess,” he says.
His words anger me for what she has forced my family to endure.
“F*ck the goddess” I breathe trying to catch my breath.
“Kat?” Ezra says, he looked appalled at my words but I didn’t care, I did nothing to her yet am cursed by her, had to watch the horrors this curse has caused.
“You don’t mean that” he says and I shake my head and he clamps his hand over my mouth.
“You don’t mean that” he says, his eyes holding mine before crushing me against his chest.
“I was so terrified, I thought I killed you, the worst few minutes of my life” he says rubbing my back.
“Few minutes?”
“Yes you were only out for a few minutes” he says but I felt like I had been gone for hours, days even a Lifetime.
‘Why did she show me that?’ I ask Kora. It made no sense, to me, they didn’t die like my mother did or grandmother.
‘It’s just the beginning kat’
‘I don’t understand,’ I tell her.
‘you will in time but for now rest, because at midnight we shift’
‘We shift?’
‘Yes Kat, that’s why I didn’t want him to mark us yet’
‘Why?’
‘Because it’s not a Full Moon tonight and we will be weaker, we haven’t had time to recharge’
‘I still don’t understand’
‘Shifting in a full Moon is quick, it won’t be quick Kat’ she says. I knew shifting for the first time was painful, but for her to be worried just scared me more.
“Kat?” Ezra asks worriedly, I shake my head trying to wrap my head around the horror that has become my life. I clutch him, hugging him back letting his scent calm my raising mind.
“We will survive the shift kat, Ezra’s bloodline is strong, his DNA runs through our veins now we will survive, we just won’t want to” Kora says, a chill running up my spine at her words.
We won’t want to? A blessing, how was any of this supposed to be a blessing when everything feels like it’s a curse.
So much for rest, Ezra felt bad that marking me knocked me out, I didn’t have the heart to tell him it would also be forcing my shift. We watched the hours tick by, it’s amazing how long a minute can feel when you’re waiting for something. Every minute passing by raised my anxiety and Kora was not helping, only scaring me more.
I tried asking her about the visions, she only said we would keep having them, that she couldn’t control them, that they are brought on by change and by the Moon.
Not even she understood the dreams, she couldn’t make sense of them either.
“I’m really sorry Kat, if I had known it would cause you to pass out, I would have waited, like you wanted” Ezra tells me. We had been sitting in the room for hours now, the silence making my anxiety of what’s to come way worse, I needed a distraction.
“It’s fine, either way it would have happened eventually just try to sleep” I tell him. His hand lazily tracing up my arm as we lay in bed.
“I can’t now because I can feel your upset over it, I ruined the night, killed the mood” he says. I wasn’t upset about him marking me, I was upset I was about to shift. I needed him to go to sleep so I could sneak off without him knowing. I didn’t want him to see me like that, I also didn’t want to make him feel worse about marking me.
“Maybe ask your mother to meet us,” Kora suggests.
“And you’re sure you can block him out?” I ask her.
“I think so, we can only try”
“It’s fine, I am fine. Let’s just sleep, you didn’t ruin anything” I tell him, snuggling under the blanket.
Ezra eventually drifted off around 11 PM so I mindlinked my mother.
“Mum?” It took her a few seconds to answer and I could tell she was asleep.
“Mum”
“Kat? It’s late honey what’s wrong?”
“Can you meet me at the border where I hid on the pack run?” I feel her foggy mind become alert in panic.
“What’s going on, do I need to wake your father?” She asks.
“No, I just need you please. Kora is going to shift ” I tell her, I definatly didn’t want my father coming, no girl wants their father seeing them naked.
“Where’s Ezra?” She asks.
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