Oriana:
After those ugly-ass things attacked from the sky, I ran back to the fleshmingo town, straight to the tunnel.
She had promised that her earth-eaters would not touch , so I knew I was safe here.
Still, facing them directly was going to be frightening. I sprinted far ahead.
"Where are you?" I yelled for her desperately.
It was confusing.
Why did those things co straight from the sky to attack ?
Why not Clentine?
Why wouldn’t any of these monsters just kill her for once?
"It isn’t like they hadn’t tried."
It was as if she heard .
I jumped when she appeared, then turned to look at her.
She was hiding in the shadows before stepping out, an earth-eater, but shaped like a woman.
Her body was both of the earth-eater. She had a tail, and her form was unusual.
Hiding in the shadows seed right for her.
"That’s an," she comnted with a smirk, letting know that after I gave her access to my mind, she could read my thoughts.
"I’m sorry, but I’m exhausted. I don’t even know if it’s working," I said, annoyed. "The other day it completely stopped working. And then you told to—" I paused, turning away. "For a sacrifice."
"You did kill a lurker for ," she retorted, her tone sterner this ti. "I told you, for it to keep working, you have to feed it blood. Besides, are they not listening to you? Are they not betraying their mate for you?"
I rolled my eyes.
"Weren’t they supposed to completely forget about her?" I asked, watching her confident expression.
"Well, it’s not working. It’s getting harder for to make them listen," I added.
I hissed as I lifted my dress to my stomach to show her the chain, the jewelry she had made for .
I was still wearing it. Every ti I thought it stopped working, I scratched my stomach, trying to fix the chain around my belly.
"The jewelry makes them listen. It was one wish you had asked for, for her squad mates to be madly in love with you," she said.
"I did what you told . The problem is, this is the first case where my jewelry is having such a hard ti. It seems like the boys really love her. You’re evil to co between them, though." She laughed in her usual unsettling tone.
"Why must she get all the love alone?" I asked, trying to defend myself.
"Well, for what it’s worth, whenever you’re around them, they rember you. Although they were supposed to rember you even when you weren’t near, they’re fighting the magic too hard for this girl. But fear not. Even if they don’t forget her, she will," the shadow said, dancing from wall to wall.
I slouched my shoulders, feeling tired.
"The other day, I tried so hard to get Haiden to touch in the bed with him, but he fought it so much," I groaned, frustrated.
"Why does it bother you? It did cause a rift between him and his mate, didn’t it?" the shadow replied.
It felt like nothing I said made sense to her.
She kept coming back with the sa cobacks.
"I want them to completely forget about her, to hate her. I’m so annoyed," I groaned, stomping my foot.
Hearing that this was the first case where the magic wasn’t working fully on soone was already infuriating.
There was nothing special about Clentine.
Why were these n trying so hard to fight for her?
Then the shadow stopped right in front of , leaning closer to my face.
"Rember your promises?" she reminded .
"Well, I’ll fulfill them once you fulfill yours. I want them completely wrapped around my finger and for her to be away from them," I told her. "It won’t work like this. I can’t keep working this hard for their attention. I want them to chase ."
"Oriana, don’t play gas with . Because trust , I’m doing the best I can. Like I said, this is the first ti I’m using all my power. These n really love her. So if I stop, and they realize what you’ve done to separate them from her, you have no idea what they’ll do to you. These n will beco worse than the North. So you’d better stay on my good side," she warned.
Goosebumps ran up my spine.
"They will not hurt , will they?" I asked, and she began to cackle out loud.
"These n have a dark future. The only thing holding their sanity is their fated mate. They fight every day with their demons for her. Once you take away that hope, and when they wake from the trance, their demons will take over. Then, they will go after everyone who ca between them and their mate. And must I remind you, that includes you," she said in her cold, eerie tone, making my body stiffen.
"Now go back. Try to win their hearts. And stop complaining. Next ti I ask for a sacrifice, do it quickly," she reminded .
Those were the terms under which she had granted this jewel.
I was now afraid of them.
There seed to be only one way to make sure they wouldn’t rember Clentine, if she was completely gone from their lives.
I had to do sothing to get rid of her.
With that, I returned and found them. The night was chaotic.
Thankfully, I didn’t have to lift a finger to grab the flags.
I grabbed Clentine’s.
Then I watched her squad mates take out and leave her behind.
As soon as we were out, I held their hands to make sure they kept running with .
There were monts when I noticed Haiden turning around, and then Yorick did the sa.
Troy would stop and look lost.
I had to work hard to get them to the train station.
But once we arrived, they completely stopped functioning.
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