The ends of the gold chain were clipped together before Tobias could try to help her put it on.

The girl was quick; that spoke to her independence.

After he spent much time with her, he had learned that she was the hands-on type.

Were it up to any other woman, they would have coquettishly commented about how much they liked it and asked for their suitor to put it on for them.

Tobias held her hand anew as the cawing of a murder of crows spiraled overhead. The path grew more foreboding the more they advanced.

There was hardly any warmth emanating from his palm.

 

When they finally came to halt before a spot where a standing statue was prominently featured, Skylar swallowed hard. Oh God, I knew it! I knew this was all too good to be true – he’s going to kill me here!

“You are not going to conduct a blood sacrifice, are you?”

 

He looked straight at her without speaking.

his lips curled

refused to move when her subconscious mind screamed for them to run. Her face trembled in her hands as she

alone. Killing is against the law.

words for someone like me who has already known the blood of

whimper was elicited

understand what drew him to

die.” At this moment, the sky opened up and cast its bloodless light upon the earth. Skylar was now able to see Tobias’s hardened face illuminated

came close and ran his fingers through her hair. “You are always talking about ending

Admittedly, he was right.

terror, she saw him retrieve two sticks of candles which he lighted up using a flame drew from a

her nose against the rising white fumes in case they were an incapacitating

candles between his hands and bowed

into this stuff, and we used to visit every year… You didn’t really believe that I was going to

she was. Petrified, and begging

kicked herself for misinterpreting a completely innocuous activity and getting all

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