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105 | SIX MINUTES
“You know?” I whispered. My mouth went dry, and I swallowed thickly, trying to wet my lips. Ice flooded my veins. We had lost. We had failed.
He stepped out of the shadows, snakes of black mist pooling around his body as he moved. His smirk deepened, and I saw a flash of white teeth as he struggled to hold in his laughter.
He looked, for the most part, human. His skin shone with a pearlescent lustre, but two dark horns protruded from his forehead and his eyes glowed red. He was tall – taller than any person I’d ever seen, be they vampire, human, witch, or wolf – and, as the fog parted, billowing away from his legs, I understood why.
He had the upper body of a human, and the legs of a large goat. But, as I watched, they shifted and shimmered in the darkness, stars and sparkles of an indeterminable colour – too matte to shine like that, too black to be so bright; it was impossib
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I felt permanently on edge for the rest of the day. The feeling of being watched only intensified, and I began to jump at the slightest thing. In the canteen, Kathrena touched my shoulder from behind, and I swung around, eyes wide and fearful. She dropped her hand quickly, and held it up along with her other.“It’s only me,” she hissed.“Sorry,” I said. “I – don’t worry,” I cut myself off with a sigh.“Are you alright?” She frowned, as she guided me by the elbow to a free table.“Fine,” I said, dragging a smile onto my face. “Just – all of the scents, you know?”I thought that a half-truth would be easier to pull off than a complete fabrication, in the heightened emotional state that I, unfortunately, found myself in.“Yeah. I know,” she sighed.“Are you okay?” I asked. She seemed as sad as I was jumpy.“Fine,” she repeated, her thin lips pulling into a smirk. I let out a snort, and we spent the rest of our lunch break chatting about simpler topics. As we discussed our teachers and our
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