BOUND TO MY AWAKENING
“If you are here, then speak plainly or leave.”
“There is something moving through your territory that should not be,” he said.
I did not react outwardly, but I felt the words settle anyway.
“Something,” I repeated.
“A girl,” he continued.
The word should not have meant anything to me, yet it did.
“I am not interested in stray problems crossing my borders,” I said.
“This is not a stray problem,” he replied. “This is ancient blood.”
I held my expression steady, because reactions were useful to other people, not to me.