"Anu please am so sorry. I have heard that you are in this condition because of me and I don't want to cause you any pain but am really mad at you, you never told me about this. You didn't tell me that you sometimes change to a lion. Am your wife and am supposed to know everything about you, my husband."I cried and didn't realize that I was getting closer to him and I wasn't scared anymore. Maybe I was spellbound or compelled to. He came back to his human form when I touched him."Why did you tie me up?" He asked and his words got me emotional and tears ran down my cheeks."I.. I.. I just wanted us to play..." "Shuuuhhh! Don't lie please. I know everything, wife. This is not the first time am tied up here with these chains and don't blame yourself for anything, am the one at fault here and not you. Don't mind my mom's words and don't take it to heart please."he cried as well."Why did you change? And what does it mean?" I asked in a soft voice."It's nothing serious, don't worry." He

I then remembered mother's words to not let him come close to me and then got out of the bed and sat at the end of it. I was still sleepy and scared too. I couldn't sleep on the couch alone. I just left everything in the hands of the Almighty and slept.Morning came with blue and pinky skies. It was a beautiful morning, mother had promised to meet me but I didn't know how. I just waited for the miracle but couldn't see any sign of her coming. Slowly by slowly I started to lose hope when the sun set before she could reach me. "Why is she taking so long? Anyway how do I expect her to find me when she doesn't know where I am, am so stupid." I walked up and down waiting for her. I asked one of Anu's guards to shift my seat and bring it near the window because I wanted to see whoever entered the gate since I wasn't allowed to leave the house without Anu's permission. Soon darkness covered the place and I couldn't be able to see clearly. After sometime the guards closed the gate, I couldn't

After a while I heard some footsteps coming close to our bed, it was Anu's mother. "What is she doing here at this hour? What does she want?" I asked myself. Since she wasn't able to read my mind anymore, she came closer to me and put her hand on my head, I wondered why but it seemed she wasn't able to read it, perhaps that's why she bent over, removed my bedcovers and bit me on the shoulder. I felt pain for a little while till when she placed her hand on the wound to collect my blood before she made it heal right away and like that the scar was no more.I tried to slowly open my eyes in a wise manner and see for myself what was going on. She later closed her eyes, whispered some strange words and a colourless glass came swinging from nowhere and appeared before her. Grabbing it she put the drops of my blood in it and drank it.Wait! What was she doing with my blood? What was her intentions? Was that the first time she has done this to me or things always happened as I was asleep?Sh

"You're a terrible person mother. You used the innocent person for your own good."I pointed with a disappointed expression on my face."I know. Am such a terrible person but what else could I have done. I did all that for your own good and survival."she said."Do you still have him under your control? Does he know the truth about you? I mean does he know you are a witch?"I asked."Yes. He knows everything about me now. By the time he learnt the truth about me, he was already in love with me and couldn't back off. Strange things happened on the day when you were born. Witches and demons came to congratulate me and when he asked about them, I told him the truth except for one thing.""What's that mother.""He doesn't know that you are not his child."she said as her eyes got flooded with tears."I understand why you chose not to tell him the truth about me. Your intentions were good and I don't blame you for anything so don't cry mother." I comforted her as I enveloped her with a hug."

Looking around, the magical walls were no more. I wasn't safe anymore. For a moment I got a strange feeling. A line appeared on the ground leading to somewhere so I followed it. It stopped at the previous abandoned place. "Why am I back to this place?"I asked myself. Maybe something compelled me to. "Artie, Artie."someone kept repeating my name."Who are you?"I asked while shaking terribly."You will soon find out."he replied."Show yourself if you aren't a coward."I provoked."Help please.""Why should I help you, I even don't know you. What if you aren't a good person."I said."Please save me."he cried and I could feel he was really suffocating from underground."I know this is very dangerous but I have no other choice my dear. You are the only one who can help me bring me back to life. You are partly demon and witch too, there's nothing impossible for you."he pointed."How did you know about me?"I was getting terrified."I know you very well my child."he cried."Child? Are you my