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 into a smile.

when her subconscious mind screamed for them to run. Her face trembled in her hands as she dreaded to look upon the

leave me alone. Killing is against the law. Have

words for someone like me who has already known the

elicited from between her paralyzed

him to finally understand

moment, the sky opened up and cast its bloodless

“You are always talking

Admittedly, he was right.

was gripped by her fear and terror, she saw him retrieve two sticks of candles which he

white fumes in case they

then raised the candles between his hands and bowed to the statue before

guardian of this mountain. My mother’s really into this stuff, and we used to visit every year… You didn’t really believe that I was going to kill you,

she was. Petrified, and begging for her dear

completely innocuous activity and

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