TOWER OF VOCÍ Tamara was still running and it seemed like her legs could not carry her anymore. Her sisters were screaming, running past her as they all were trying to escape the dragons who were obviously resisting their magic on them. She opened the inner gate of the castle and stood by the threshold and called her sisters to run into it. Everyone who was outside ran past her into the inner gate and she shut the gates. She fetched the sands before her feet, and threw it into the air above them. It cloaked them and the entire castle. “Is everyone alright, is anyone hurt?” Tamara asked her sisters as she tried to catch her breath. She turned to them and saw that they were all behind her, some were injured and some were unharmed. “Lucinda, your arm, it's bleeding. Try to heal yourself before you lose more blood than you've already lost,” Tamara said to Lucinda who was the only one sitting and leaning her back on the wall. “I, I can't heal myself. I don't know why, but it see
CAVES OF EFLIE Iasias opened his eyes and his eyes met the Callibra which was still buried in the wall. He rubbed his eyes and quickly took his eyes off it as its light was too harsh for his eyes to accommodate. He turned to the other side, turning his back against it, he wanted to get more sleep, but as he turned, he saw that it was already morning. "Oh no, it's morning already," he whispered to himself as he turned, his back now on the floor. He tucked his hair behind his left ear and sniffled as his nose picked up such a nice aroma, it smelled like food, actual food which they haven't had ever since they escaped Ivádia. "Do I smell food, or this is all a dream?" He muttered to himself as his eyes roamed the wall of the cave. "I think it's coming from outside," he concluded as he did not see anything which actually looked like food in his cave. his mouth watered and his stomach rejoiced as he got up quickly and walked hurriedly out of his cave. Immediately he reached outside,
TOWER OF IVÁDIA Nika was sitting on the high arm chair which was just beside her bed in her new room. This was her mother's room, and the room for every coven leader that has passed. The chair signified authority. She was reading a spell book and her eyes moved quickly from it to the door at the creaking of the door. “Aunt Cayetana,” Nika muttered as her eyes fell back to the page she was reading which has a diagram of a snake coming out of a mud pot in it, with some spell line scribbled with black ink beside the diagram. “Give yourself some rest Nika!” Aunt Cayetana said in a slow but forceful way, showing strong concern and worry. She came to sit on Nika's bed but Nika didn't even look at her face for once as she was extraordinarily focused on the spell book she planned on finishing before the war ahead with the dragons. “You are not going to win this war by plucking your eyes out on reading spell books. You should bear it in mind that this war is not yours to fight alone. We
MOUNT SICA After the long journey through the sea, they saw a huge mountain below them with green vegetation surrounding it. The leaves of the shrubs and the grasses below their wings fluttered, and the feeble branches and stems snapped as they find a place to land. Elvio landed first, and then Dalmatius, and Dominick. "Mount Sica!" Dalmatius said as they were closer to the mountain, and there was no much distance from the height they were hovering from the top of the mountain. With their clothes between their claws, they landed and found places to hide themselves before shifting back to humans. Iasias hid behind one side of the mountain and transformed back into human. He picked up his trousers and slot in his legs quickly, he picked up his shirt and threw it over his head. "We have no much time, the sun is setting!" Iasias shouted to them as he came out from behind his side of the mountain. "This is going to be a long journey by foot," Dalmatius said as he walked out from hi
TOWER OF IVÁDIA Nika was still In aunt Cayetana’s room, sitting on the bed while she caressed her aunt's head which was on her lap whilst her aunt lamented continuously, sobbing with a heart full of sorrow. She was lying on her side and faced the door... “Sister Nika!” sister Melanie said abruptly, as she opened the door and walked in hurriedly. “Melanie! What went wrong? You look aghast!” Nika said to her and she battled with her next statement. She looked rather scared, and it seemed she knew that Nika would not find what she was about to say pleasant. “Talk to me, tell me what brought you into this room,” Nika demanded for the reason behind her coming into her aunt's room. “I looked for you in your new room, and you weren't there, so I thought you will be in sister Cayetana's room, and here you are,” she said. “Yes, as you can obviously see! Now tell me why you look so aghast,” Nika asked and she looked down to her feet quickly, lacking courage to spit out the words in her
CAVES OF EFLIE Along the way back to Eflie, the slaves Iasias, Dalmatius, Elvio and Domminick carried never stopped struggling and screaming for them to let them go. They ignored the slaves as they realized that there was nothing they could tell the people to make them stop screaming. Now, They were in Eflie, only few flaps away from the caves. “We are here, you'll be on the ground soon,” Iasias shouted to them and it seemed like they could not hear him as they kept on shouting and screaming at the top of their voices. They picked the slaves off the ground at random, and it seemed like they made an even pick of male and female. They were four girls and four boys under their claws. They could not land until they dropped the slaves on their feet first, as they would crush them under their giant feet if they tried to land first. They maintained balance in the air as they neared the ground in order for the slaves feet to touch the ground. They released their claws the moment they fel
TOWER OF VOCÍ As the leader of the coven, much were expected from Grindila this night. The night where they had to acknowledge their sisters who had passed by this time last night. The smoke of the fire which her sisters had set at the midst of the castle's compound to keep them warm was rising unto her face through the window. She heard her sisters sing as she was still in her room putting on her clothes for the ritual. The sound of their voices, and the melody which came out of all their mouths reached Grindila's ears and clouds of tears formed over her eyes. She closed her eyes and hummed along the song they sang in their dialect. Recalling the memories of what happened by this very time last night. She was already dressed in a red ball gown like every one of her sisters would be dressed in tonight, and then putting on her gold necklace. As she continued to hum, she sat on her bed and slipped her feet into the flat wooden sole heel and fastened it. She heard a knock on her d
TOWER OF IVÁDIA Nika was walking to her room through the passage which was partially lit, not as bright as it normally was, as only 5 torches on her right side were lit, and just three from her left side. It seemed like the rest were burned out. She heard quick footsteps behind her and She turned, seeing nothing but a trail of nothingness stalking in the darkness behind her. She continued to walk but with a slight increase in the pace of her movement. She heard the footsteps again and she looked over her left shoulder quickly. “Althea! Is that you?... Varia?” She asked to confirm if someone was with her in the passage. Her brows furrowed as she did not hear any reply. Her heart skipped a beat as she stared into the darkness once again. She turned to her front and gasped as she saw her mother's face an inch away from hers —bumping unto her chest, she retracted her movement. Her mother was not happy. Her eyes, they frightened Nika. The rage in her eyes made her walk a few steps