AURORA- The Last Phoenix 의 모든 챕터: 챕터 11 - 챕터 14

The woman who walked through the door didn't look like a monster. In fact, she looked ethereal, almost magical.It was just a woman that looked like something out of a fairy tale. Her skin was so fair, she was almost translucent. Her hair dark and wavy moved like the waves of the ocean behind even though she was standing very still. She wore clothes that covered most of her skin but from her visible neck area, I could see scales on her neck. When she stepped forward, she moved like every step had already been decided three steps in advance, like the room had already surrendered and simply hadn't been informed yet."Selene." Orion said the name like a curse.I guess there is no cause for alarm if they knew each other, I thought to myself."Orion." She inclined her head, mild, almost polite, and her eyes moved past him, past Cillian, landing on me with an attention that felt like being weighed on a scale I couldn’t see. "So this is her. I expected more fire. Literally." She tilted her h

We didn't sleep that night, scratch that, we couldn’t sleep even if we tried. Everybody tried to play it cool but we were all on high alert. My body was weary, my mind was not at peace, my heart was heavy but I didn’t dare close my heart for fear of what would happen if I did. Orion took the first watch by the mended window after doing some kind of magic to cloak the house. Selene sat apart from all of us in the corner with her knees drawn up, eyes closed but clearly not resting, from where I was I could feel the wheels in her head turning. Cillian found me on the back steps sometime past three in the morning, staring at nothing in particular."You should be resting," he said, easing down beside me, careful of the side Selene had gotten a good hit on."So should you." I said without raising my head to look at him"I asked first."The night had gone very still, the particular stillness that comes right before a sky decides whether to stay dark or start turning grey, and somewhere behi