Eternal

She had seen me being carted off to the asylum, but she had to plan the best way to free me from my confinement. It was only when she had gone to the asylum, two days before she had come for me, under the pretence of a relation that she was informed that I would soon be going under a drastic procedure to finally rid me or my suffering. In this day and age, you would know is as a lobotomy. She said that she was able to use her ability to convince the workers to let us just walk right out of the front door.

You see, Alina was able to bend people’s minds to her own will, she could control many minds at one time but it wore off rather quickly and she was limited as to what she could get them to do.

Anyway, when my birthday finally came, I was engulfed in a mind-numbing pain that felt like someone was drilling right through my head, it was truly excruciating. But after the pain had subsided, I was left with the ability to control the elements and wield any spell that I saw fit, I was also able to dream walk, which is how I was able to contact you.

There is a lot more to explain, but I think I should leave off here, in case you have any questions that you may feel the need to ask.”

Chapter Twenty-One

Unya

Mind completely blown. I mean seriously how could any of that be true, but as I sat there listening to her, I found myself actually wanting it to be true, as it would mean that I had not in fact jumped aboard the crazy train.

“What happened to Alina? do you still speak to her?” Those were the first things that I put to her and I noticed a wistful look appear on her face.

“In a way yes, but only because I am able to commune with the spirit realm on occasion, I can even walk amongst them, but it’s very dangerous and without an anchor to this realm I could lose myself there.”

I felt sad for Mihaela then, as it dawned on me that it must mean that Alina had passed on. I mean sure it makes sense, seeing as my Nonna had been seventeen when they met, but I couldn’t stop myself from asking how she died.

“With this gift comes a large longevity to our lives, we will never get sick and we will simply stop aging when we reach the appearance of fifty. If that isn’t enticing enough, our aging also halts once we reach twenty two, after ten years have passed, we begin to age slightly and that will continue every ten years until we hit the fifty mark. But we cannot evade death indefinitely, so once we reach the ripe old age of one hundred and twenty five years, we simply just stop existing. The year up to it we do start to wither slightly, our strength begins to fade as does our zest for life, but it is not painful. Luckily, we are spared that fate and we get to pass away in our sleep. I have at least twenty five more years ahead of me, as long as no one tries to end it prematurely that is. Just because we have a strain of Zeus’s blood running through our veins, that does not make us invincible, we are still predominantly human. Another thing that you should bear in mind, is Constantine was the very last man to be born into our family.”

“Nonna, what if I wasn’t, human I mean, then could happen to me?” I asked this because Malachi’s earlier words were ringing through my mind, and I could not shake them.

“Sweetheart, your mother was very much human, she was not even blessed with our gift, so why would you ask such a thing?”

I took a deep breath as I tried to get the words right in my mind first before I dared to utter them.

“I didn’t tell you everything earlier on, as I was on my way to you, I took a little pit stop at the cemetery. I wasn’t sure how you would feel about me just turning up on your doorstep so I thought I would steal a few moments and clear my racing mind.

While I was there Malachi approached me, he was curious about me after we had met in Venom and even though I had been blonde at the time, he was still able to recognise me.

I tried to evade him, but when he tried to grab hold of me, I sort of let my mouth run away with me and blurted out that I knew he was doing something to me.

He got hold of me and blasted me with a euphoric feeling, but I managed to break our contact by promising to tell him how I could tell he was trying to manipulate my emotions. I kept to my words and explained my greatest flaw to him and he seemed almost humbled by that. But skipping over some of the other conversation he ended up revealing to me that he was an Incubus and he said there was no way I could be human either, something to do with the power I radiate.”

Mihaela sat there looking completely dumbstruck before a dark look flashed in her eyes.

“You said earlier that you couldn’t feel anything, yet when you first arrived here in the manner that you were hammering down my door, I honestly thought something had frightened you, are you sure you are still numb to your emotions.”

I pondered her question for a few moments, thinking back on the odd occasions where I thought maybe I had felt something before I quickly dismissed it as no more than wishful thinking and I informed her of this.

“An Incubus is a very dangerous creature Unya, it could be he has unwittingly kick started your body into feeling emotions again. But do not let him lead you blindly down a path you cannot run from, just like their counterparts the Succubus, they seduce their victims into falling into bed with them and while they are having their way, they are also draining them of their life force and once the act has reached its crescendo, their victim is left as nothing more than a corpse. You must stay away from him Unya, being around him will not lead anywhere good. But the fact he doesn’t believe you are human is most strange, the Incubus are very quick to pick up on the power that a being possesses, and from the one encounter I had with one many years ago, there is no reason for him to suspect you are something unhuman.

As I said earlier, we are more human than god or sorceress, and an incubus would be able to sense that.”

“So, what does that mean for me then, am I something else entirely?” I asked, almost pulling my hair out in frustration, and this time I definitely picked up on it, I tried to cling to the sense of feeling, but it soon floated away into nothing.

“This is most peculiar, but if you were of a different breed, then it may explain why it took so long for me to find you in the first place, I always sensed that something was blocking our blood connection. Maybe it had been you, unwittingly of course, all along. Let me convene with our ancestors for a moment, and I will try to shed some answers on this strange turn of events.”

I watched as the whites of her eyes completely engulfed all other colours, until they were nothing more than white orbs. I could see her mouth moving, but I couldn’t make sense of any of the words that she may have been saying, so instead I just say there and waited for her to return to me.

Z

It was close to an hour later when she finally roused from her rather creepy looking state and the colour completely drained away from her face, as she set her eyes on me as though she was seeing me for the very first time.

I slowly stood up, trying to figure out what was going on, as she continued to do nothing else but stare straight at me, as though she was looking into the deepest recesses of my very being.

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