Awakening
She'd be spared the bloodly justice I was exacting upon this town and its people.
"Scarlet?" She gasped once move, staring at me in equal parts horror and shock. "You," She signed herself with the cross.
"You're alive."
"I knew he couldn't do it. Your papa loved you so much, I knew he would have found a way to save you." She spoke more to herself then me, her outspoken thoughts almost had me laughing, but emotion rose to the surface. It seems I too was in a state of shock.
"Scarlet." Mary sunk to knees, reaching out as if she were about to take me into her arms. But even flooded as she was with genuine relief at my being alive, prey recognized predator.
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