(WILL OF THE PUPPET) A CERTAIN curiosity tone can be heard, while the clock continues to tick. Somewhat reminding someone, no, everyone who is currently holding the moment in this current chapter of the book. “I have been thinking.” She finally opens with her thoughts and question towards HIM. “Out from everyone else, why did you choose her?” The question that she needed to ask and immediately. All while the both of them are watching the current scene unfolds to the mirror in front of them. Always like a ticking timebomb for HIS amusement and disposal. “Are you really asking me an obvious thing right now?” “Obvious? Kind of, but I am still wondering why.” “Tsk!” HE smirks, resting his chin on his right palm and looking at the Mistress of time with HIS eyes that is in deep cunning thoughts and all smiles. “Marie.” HE drops the name, and now in HIS serious tone and glances back at the said holder in the mirror that they currently monitoring. “Out
(HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED?) “SIMPLE. HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED?” “MARIE!” Up and jolting from the nightmare that she just had. Marie’s body begins to shake in fear, slowly cowering on the side of her bed and looking frantically with her eyes around her room. “I-I-I,” She started to stutter, worst with the brewing storm outside where the lightning and followed by a thunder is disturbing her mind and putting that fear to her emotions. “Farah.” She finally calls out for her sister. Now crying and sobbing, wanting that protection and security that only her sister can give her. Yet. “Marie.” A sudden call that is chilling, yet somehow reassuring stole her attention. But instead of her fear and hysteria kicking in, in situations like this. She is somehow calm and focused, now looking for that voice that once more called her name. “Marie.” “Who is there?” Marie asks. Turning her head and looking for the person that somewhat put that kin
(LITTLE TO NO EXCUSE) “SIMPLE. HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED?” The question that shaken Daniela to her very core without any idea why. Intrigued, yet with the beating uncomfortable dread that comes right from it. “Daniela.” “What do you mean?” The little Maiden’s tone drops. A bit darker than her usual tone, with her eyes that marks the danger and trouble that she is somehow expecting from this conversation that she is currently having towards the seemingly little girl in front of her. “Have you ever wondered about the real existence and what really matters the most for that person?” “That person?” she thought, grasping the lamp tight to her hand and somehow expecting to hear the most dreaded thing possible in the time. “Who do you mean by your words?” Marie smiles, but not an ordinary smile. Rather a type of sinister and dark one that can bring the thousand chill and fear to anyone. Yet, with the purity of the little Maiden, the effect that comes out
(LIGHT AND DARK: THE TRUTH) “EMIE, WHO IS KYLE?” The question and exact words that Emie expected to hear from the Maiden. The thought and the moment that she’s been waiting for. The person in the middle of it is currently blinded and unknowing of the current dread of a spell. “Asking me that question means I can assume that you are prepared all through and through, Daniela.” The fact that Daniela is hesitating about. The words that are currently turning her mind upside down for believing and not. Her strong trust in Kyle is something that she just couldn’t say because she is afraid of knowing the truth. “Knowing the truth means you aren’t protected from pain and hurt. And being the Shrine Maiden is not an excuse to be sheltered by that fact, Daniela.” “You know? Everything?” “If I say that I knew more than what anyone knew and that I am someone that is not ordinary as you thought that I am. Will everything change?” Words and questions shake an
(THE ONE SHE KNOWS) “KYLE. Where is the original Kyle of this world and book, Emie?” Emie half smiles, looking directly towards the Maiden’s eyes with a mix of longing and pain. A brush of anger and deeper resentment. Then she asks the question that the Maiden should be asking first before anything else. “Have you ever wondered after what you heard and knew now, Daniela? Did it come to your mind the question asking me about, who I am?” “You are like an NPC in a game. A soulless one created to do what is asked of you to do in the first place. A mere stem that builds the flower, and a guardian of some sort.” Daniela’s direct reply and her answer. Without even blinking or showing any emotions in between. But answered that she just knew to be the right one, even though it wasn’t the answer that Emie is looking for. “Very well. Let’s replace the thought, shall we?” her tone is deafening silently. With a smile that is piercing and somehow warning. She as
(BEHIND CLOSED DOORS) “SHALL WE HEAD INSIDE?” The door opens, written with intricate symbols and letters that Daniela knew. She can read and understand, yet something is blinding her eyes to see it. And just like Emie told her a while back. “Do not pay attention to it for now Shrine Maiden. For soon, you will know everything that you needed to know.” Somewhat reading her mind, she calms her nerves and lets it all fall to what and where it all should be. “This way please, Daniela.” Emie went inside first then she follows. Taking only a few steps inside that seems like a dark and empty room. The door closes and shuts, at the very same time when the lamps are lit with the trace of a flame spell. Along with the neon green light of an unfamiliar pentagram that she had never seen before. “The Supreme One’s pentagram.” Emie informs her, and once more reading her mind and curiosity from the things that were all new to her, yet only in this last loop a
(DARK BETRYAL) DANIELA’S footsteps echoes. With her expression and silence that suggest the fault, lies and betrayal that she just went through and knew now. Under the shade of the bright full moon above, where a thunderstorm somewhat didn’t happen. She stops right in front of her room. Opens the door and expectedly saw the person that she knew that is waiting for her. “Kyle.” “There you are.” Kyle’s creepy like smile. “I’ve been wondering where you have been, Daniela.” His lies. “And I almost call for some help to look for you in the entire estate.” His fake worry, but not that deep, but definitely dark. His tone and words that doesn’t sync to what it truly means. For it is screaming from the shadows the fact that he wanted to not just stay by the Maiden’s side. But to be her shadow, and owns her secretly from deep within. “I apologize if I worry you Kyle. You see, I just find a need to breath some fresh air from time to time.” “To breath some fres
(RED DOT) “WHEN EVERYTHING COMES IN A CIRCLE AND CYCLE. YOU CANNOT DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT AND NOT EVEN A LITTLE THING TO ALTER IT, DANIELA.” ‘DID YOU JUST REMEMBER THAT CERTAIN PAST, MARIE?’ “Stop!” Marie screams, holding her head with her hands and now crouching in pain from the flash of images and words that felt like squeezing her brains out from her head. “No, no, no. What are you talking about? I do not understand anything at all.” She’s now talking to the whispering words inside of her mind. Somewhat blinded by the reality around her and currently dwelling on the past that she couldn’t yet comprehend the truth. “Nate. Will you please?” “My pleasure.” Farah requested, which Nate more than gladly comply. Brewing the storm even stronger than before, with the flash of light and rumbling thunder that follows every other moment. Adding fuel to the pain and the flash of memories that Marie needed to remember to open the gate and put every p