Eternal

I wasn’t sure how I had done it but the rain was released in a torrential fall as it hit the flames and slowly beat them down, leaving nothing but the wisps of smoke, dying embers and thoroughly charred earth in its wake.

I raised my gaze towards Marcus and saw him standing there completely gobsmacked. I didn’t have time to contemplate his reaction though before I was lowering myself down towards the ground and placing my hands down onto the charred ground, smelling a faint whiff of burning flesh as I connected with the still smoking earth.

I closed my eyes and imagined the soot being blown away and the blades of grass re-taking their place, stronger and healthier than they had been before. I imagined wild flowers taking root and opening their petals to the sunlight that would be bound to hit them once morning struck.

I stayed like that for a few more moments, until I felt the earth beneath me begin to shift and my feet moving without my permission. My eyes shot open and I couldn’t comprehend what I was seeing, as the ground began to raise beneath me, creating a natural looking hill that hadn’t been there before.

The grass looked so much greener up here, with wild flowers sprouting up all over the place, I quickly broke my contact and felt like I had succeeded in proving my capabilities when everything that I had created, remained.

“I did it Marcus,” I stated, hoping he would be pleased with me.

“I can see that you did amazing Unya, but that hill will not go unnoticed. Especially not to any natives that may wander to here, it would definitely be hard to miss.”

He placed his palm down onto my hill and I gathered that he was trying to reverse whatever it was I had unwittingly done. He stayed there for a few minutes, before shaking his head in defeat.

“Your magic is strong Unya, there is no way I can undo what you have done, as for how you put the flame out in the first place, well that was definitely far from elemental.”

“What do you mean? I called on the water just like you had told me to do,” I wasn’t sure why I was trying to explain my actions to him, especially as he was the one that had been guiding me.

“Yes, you did, but somehow you managed to take control of the weather, instead of just the water that surrounds us naturally, it was impressive don’t get me wrong.”

He broke eye contact and started to pace the area, either staring at the ground or up towards the sky. “That was not born from the sorceress in you, if anything, we have somehow managed to unlock another of your god like abilities instead.”

I stood there slightly confused, wondering how something like that could have happened, before it dawned on me, I had more going for me than anyone ever anticipated and it made me want to know about the prophecy more than I had before.

Chapter Thirty-Three

Lawson

It was clear Kat hadn’t had an uneventful experience with Marcus if the practically empty bottle of vodka was anything to go by.

She held it tightly against her chest and she stared off into space, I wanted to see if there was anything I could do to help her, but couldn’t stop myself from thinking lately, I had done nothing more than aggravate her even more, and that was clearly something she did not need right now. I decided to give her the space she obviously craved when Kat’s words stopped me in my tracks.

“She’s with him you know, he says there’s nothing between them but I can’t stop this feeling of jealousy that is raging through me right now.”

She tightened her hold on the bottle until it shattered and rained down glass all over her, splashing her with the last of the liquid that it had held.

“Who are you talking about?” I asked, feeling as though I should have already known the answer.

“Unya and Marcus of course, he claims that there is nothing going on between them. I want to believe him but he said that she was helping him with his broken heart, so how the hell is she doing that if they really are just friends. It sounds highly suspect to me and the worst part is I think in some backwards and possibly unintentional way, he actually threatened me because of her.”

I swallowed thickly, trying to remove the strange feelings that had overcome me, trying to pretend with all my might that I hadn’t just been struck down with jealousy and possessiveness, something I definitely had no right in feeling.

“What do you mean he threatened you, what did he do?” I tried to rein my temper in, it was beginning to flare to life, knowing that it would not help this situation in the slightest.

“He basically told me if anything happened to her he would hold anyone associated with the culprit responsible, he’s definitely protective of her. And it’s pissing me off, I love that girl I do, but I don’t think I can trust myself to be around her right now, not with the way I am feeling anyway. I just keep picturing myself squeezing her weak little skull like a grape, until it’s crushed within my hands, and that isn’t me. I hate feeling so out of control, I’m trying to hold on to the girl that I used to be, but the Erinyes side is getting stronger and I don’t know if I can hold it off much longer. Oh, and while we’re still on the subject, he also wants me to re-evaluate my loyalty to you, regardless of me and him. I think he wants me to tell Unya the truth about you, because he can’t bring himself to do it, knowing that he would be betraying me. Not that it’s stopping him from replacing me with that little human though.”

I had no idea how to respond to that, so I just wrapped my arms around her and pulled her into me, she tried to fight the embrace at first, but she did eventually give in. Truth be told, I was worried about her, not only were her eyes a permanent red now but even her veins and begun to take on the same colour as well. No one knew how the changes would affect her when they finally happened, but I don’t think anyone even suspected this would occur, that she would eventually be replaced by the nature she had tried to lock away in some box within herself, only opening it when her job called for her to rely on it.

Z

Despite my lack of approval in regard to Kat and Marcus’s relationship, I still couldn’t wrap my head around the possibility of him and Unya being together.

I didn’t blame her for not telling me about their friendship, seeing as we didn’t really have any semblance of friendship between us, but it still aggravated me a hell of a lot.

I wanted to know if there was something going on between the two of them and just how far Marcus would go to protect the hard arse girl who had the tendency of worming her way into your unsuspecting heart. Even though I would vehemently deny she had ever done it to me, I still couldn’t shake the fact that I was still very much jealous of the relationship she had seamlessly struck up with the sorcerer.

It also didn’t help that I refused to get any sleep, i