Excerpt from Ever Shade (A Dark Faerie Tale):
“Shade.”
The blue fire glowed around her, crackling and
popping all around. The walls seemed to be so close to her,enveloping her like
a cocoon. She stood up from the ground where she had woken.
Is this real? A dream? She did not know.
She felt the walls around her. Nothing but hard,
cool stone and the sound of
her own breath echoed around her. The fire came
from the other side of the
room. It stood like a pillar, the size of a man.
In fact, as she stared longer
into the flowing flames, the image of a man
surfaced on the fire. She gasped.
The man’s eyes were closed and his hands laid
crossed over each other on the
hilt of a gleaming sword. The blade glowed with
blue fire too. Its hilt was
made of red dark rubies that bled a deep red
fire. It glowed down his middle,
red, like blood flowing from his hands down the
blade of the sword.
Shade walked towards him, asking who he was. He
didn’t respond to her inquiries, no matter how much she pleaded with him. She
kept walking towards him slowly, her feet were bare but they did not feel cold
on the stones like she thought they
should. Her heart pounded in her throat as she
reached towards the man. Help
me, she whispered to him, her voice faint and
weak. Her fingers were almost
about to touch the blue flame engulfing his
body. She felt afraid, not knowing
if the flames would burn or scald her hand. She
needed to wake him, to make him
help her out of this place, this tomb. Her
fingers were just a bit away now.
His eyes flew open, bright white light poured
out of them and his mouth as he opened it.
A sound quite like loud ethereal music filled
her ears to the point she had to cover them. The music seemed to scream into
her. The words came now and were almost booming with the deafening music.
"AWAKEN NOW AND RUN SHADE!"
Shade screamed.
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