Chapter 75 miscarriage
“You came all the way from Idris’s chambers, looking for me. Aren’t you tired?”, Zara spoke as we walked slowly along the hallway. “You told me to join you for dinner but then you aren’t in the kitchen”, I said with a shrug of my shoulders. “I was asking Dr Tracy some stuff”, My interest picked up when I heard her say that.
“About what?”, I asked after halting in mid motion. “Some stuff about pregnancy but don’t worry, l didn’t tell her that it is you, l haven’t told anything to Idris my brother,”
“I won’t tell him, l promise Raelynn”, She said without hesitating as I just stared at her. I didn’t know what the hell was wrong with me but some part of me didn’t want to tell Idris that am already pregnant.
“Urgg, just leave, let’s go…”, I instantly trailed off when someone quickly passed via us. A tiny woman with short brown hair was being carried quickly in by one of the pack guards. “Miss Zara we need your help, one of the kitchen staff has been badly burned”, The guard hollered as he ran into the room. “Let’s go and see what has happened”, Zara murmured before making her way to the infirmary.
Silently following her, l watched the guard place the woman on one of the infirmary beds. However just as he was doing it, he instantly paused when he saw me standing at Zara’s side. He was perhaps one of the guards who tortured me before because I saw guilty wash over him.
His dark eyes flickered from me to Zara and then back to the girl who was moaning in agony on the bed. He was puzzled and speechless, thinking of what to do next. Ignoring his new sense of hesitation Zara and I raced to the girl who was crying while holding her arm. There was a hideous burn along her arm and she was crying in pain. “What has happened?”, Zara asked as her hands held the young woman’s burned arm.
I stared in disbelief. The arm was all wounded. “They said that a pot was dropped and she slipped on the spilled contents, she tried to catch herself but her arm landed on the fire”, The guard stumbled over his words as he rushed them out in a single breath. “Raelynn, give me your hand”, Zara urged after listening to the guard.
Without saying anything, l followed her instruction and gave her my hand. She surprisingly placed my palm on the heated and disfigured flesh the thing which caused the cook to scream again. She finally opened up her eyes long enough to look at us and when she saw me, she began wailing again and thrashing on the bed.
It was as if she had seen a ghost. She was also one of the slaves who made my life hell, who beat me in the night. She was seriously thinking that I was back for revenge but that wasn’t in my mind. “Hold her down”, Zara commanded the guard when the girl cried out more. The guard quickly jumped in action and held onto the young woman’s shoulders as she thrashed.
“Now Raelynn, heal her, the moon goddess had a reason why she gave you those powers”, She turned her attention to me. “Yes”, l nodded my head and reaching into the well of bright energy inside of me, l pulled and urged light to come. I focused and imagined myself as person who was fated to live with werewolves who were monsters to me before. After thinking about it, the sun’s light poured from my palm and over the cook’s arm.
Soon enough before our eyes, the melting flesh began to mend and reshape until once more it was smooth and unblemished. The young woman was now still on the bed as her pain was gone but her eyes were closed because she passed out after crying a lot. “By the God’s, you healed her”, The guard gaped at me with eyes full of wonder and unshed tears.
“After doing wrong to you, you still healed her”, The guard went on. “Yeah”, I said simply with a warm smile on my face. “Let her rest, she should wake up soon”, Zara interrupted. “Am sure it took a lot of you darling, come over we go have dinner”, Zara turned her attention to me.
“Yeah l feel weak”, After one last glance at the sleeping girl and her guard we left the infirmary.
My mind was muddled and as sleep slowly claimed me, l couldn’t focus but on only one singular thought. Life in here was a bit difficult, Idris was again away dealing with some stuff that seemed to stress him a lot these days. Right Zara cared about me and she prepared everything I did need, still l couldn’t bear up with seeing Idris in that situation. He always came late to sleep but still he cuddled me like I was the first thing he didn’t want to lose.
Zara also didn’t want to lose me, She prepared broccoli and dark, leafy greens together with rooibis tea but the instant l was done having my dinner, l immediately felt sleepy. I was weak because of healing the cook and the only thing I did want was to rest.
Eventually I drifted off into the darkness and sleep blackened my mind. I knew I was dreaming when a couple of minutes passed by. This wasn’t my first time and soon l was lost in dreams.
This dream started with something like a demoness with a lady-like face but she was dressed up in black only. In the dream I was in a place which l didn’t know. I was alone with this demoness. I was chained up on the wall, watching her laugh loudly.
“So you now finally pregnant ha-ha-ha”
“Do you think you will give birth?”
“Am gonna eat that little soul just like the first ones… Ha-ha-ha”, She went on. Her words hit me, l used to have miscarriages because of her.
“No don’t… please don’t”, l began crying as I watched her make her way to me.
“No word out of your mouth is going to make me change my mind, this is your destiny, you have always had miscarriages because of me… Ha-ha-ha”,
“And am gonna eat that one too”, within minutes she had her fingers pressed into my neck, she was not hurting me though.
“I want that soul”
“I want that soul, that soul, his blood, his blood”, Words vibrated in my ears.
As my dream went darker, l settled in the inky black like walking into the arms of the lover. Shadows enveloped me as l fell into a void and sought the solace of the darkness. There was no comfort at the bottom of this darkness. Something massive, writhing in the darkness was hissing in need of blood.
“You gonna have a miscarriage again ha-ha-ha”, As soon as I heard her whisper that in my ear, power immediately washed over me and my skin prickled in response. The ground rumbled under my feet and something like the smell of putrid sulphur wafted through the air. I felt it in the deepest pit of my stomach and the magic in my blood squirmed under my skin. “Am gonna make sure that you have miscarriage again, you will never give birth when am still alive” She went on but her words made me become furious.
“Nooo you bitch, not this time, am not going to have miscarriage, you a loser”, l screamed loudly in the void of my dream after breaking the chains off my hands then quickly gripped her neck. “You a loser, am gonna win”, l whispered threateningly. “Be careful with the words you saying, soon enough you gonna have miscarriage”, She powerfully threw me off her and I landed on the ground.
“You gonna have a miscarriage…… Soon,… Don’t forget..”, She disappeared after telling me that.
I was left shaking terribly. I was shaking badly while crying.