“Cowards die many times before their deaths;The Valiant never taste of death but once,Of all the wonders that I have yet have heard,It seems to me most strange that men should fear;Seeing that death, a necessary end,Will come when it will come.”--Shakespeare, Julius Caesar_In her deep sleep, Amber saw herself in an unknown place in the middle of the night where darkness filled the sky. She felt exhausted as if she had been running for a long time and her right hand seems to be heavy as if she were carrying something heavy in it. She looked down on her hand and just immediately, the sky rumbled and lightning struck, making a deafening sound. She saw a bloody sword in her hand and she immediately threw it to the ground. When the lightning struck again, she saw that she was surrounded by bodies that lay on the cold floor and suddenly, she heard a sharp cry behind her. Turning around swiftly, she heard a thud on the ground and she bent down slowly. She saw a figure of someone and h

Amber ran in the dark to wherever her legs took her without stopping. She didn’t know the exact place she was going and she bruised herself when her body grazed on the bark of the trees but that didn’t stop her from running. Her foot suddenly hit the root of a tree and she stumbled on the forest ground before rolling down the sloppy land. Amber groaned in pain and raised her head before trying to stand up with the support of her hands but she suddenly let out a sharp cry when she felt pains in her body. She rolled on her side such that her head was now facing up and she breathed heavily. Just then, sobs escaped from her mouth and hot tears rolled down the corners of her eyes.She thought about everything. How did her life suddenly become this way? Why does it have to be her? She was with her best friend where they were walking into shops and they looked happy, then she was in the company of a witch, then she found herself being kidnapped by some men, then the boy, the gunshot, the fi

The forest turned silent and only the cries of owls and crickets could be heard. Amber looked down on her hand which held the man’s heart and at the sight of blood, her senses went wild. The smell of blood wafted in her nose and she felt a kind of hunger, a desire to feed, but it was not just any kind of food. It was blood.She resisted the urge and let the heart of the man drop from her hand before dropping on her knees. She buried her face down and held her head as she fought the urge and she felt an ache in her teeth.The boy, who had witnessed what Amber did, slowly raised his body from the ground and walked towards her. He knew how she must have felt to murder someone and also, there was something different about her but he didn’t mind it. On reaching where she was, he carefully looked at her and was about touching her when...“Don’t!” it was more like a warning and she heard herself snarl.The boy withdrew his hand back and instead, just watched her. He felt something not to be

Bookshop. Witch. The assault. Gunshot. Fire. Forest. The killing. Reflection. Amber opened her eyes and stared at the ceiling. It looked familiar to her. Yes, it was her room.“Amber!” her mother’s voice jerked her up and she moved her eyes to the side to see her mother staring at her.“Why are you lying on the floor like a corpse?” her mother asked and Amber raised her upper body to sit up.She said, “I just had a bad dream and it must have thrown me off.” To Amber, the hallucinations she had always throws her into a dark pit and she doesn’t understand what was happening to her anymore. All the weird things she was seeing, were they really hallucinations? She asked herself but then, it doesn’t look like that to her. The feelings she got from it were real and it was as if some part of her had experienced a dark side and they came back haunting her after a long time. She knew what she had to do. Only one person would know what was happening to her.“Bad dream?” her mother’s voice sna

Amber’s throat went dry and she gulped down nothing. The desire to bite into Kevin’s neck flooded her senses and as his face came closer to hers, she slowly tilted her head and aimed for his neck.Kevin opened his eyes when he noticed her head move to the side and he felt her warm breath on his neck. He thought she was going to kiss him on the neck not until he heard her say;“I don’t think I do, not anymore.”On hearing those words, Kevin’s face fell and he pulled his head back. He looked at Amber and placed his other hand on the side of her face, staring into her eyes.“Amber I understand, okay but I mean it.” he spoke calmly. “I have waited so long for this day. I wish I had told you sooner but you know how hard it is for me.”The corner of her lips pulled up and she slowly removed his hands from her face while staring back at him.“I love you too Kevin. I have always wanted to tell you that for a long time,” she looked at him innocently and when she saw his eyes lit, she smiled bu