And Then There Were Four (Lilith Carrie)

How was I ever going to be able to go on without her?

She had been with me my entire life? She had been my rock, my anchor to this world since the day my powers came into play and now she was gone.

A swirling mass of wind and a crack of thunder in the distance brought all of us to attention and as it had happened once before, a void opened within space and through it I came face to face with someone I hadn't seen since I was a child. Kara, my grandfather's Valkyrie.

"It seems that the party is over and things didn't turn out the way they should have."

Anger flashed through me at her comment. It wasn't needed and even though I wanted more than anything to put her in her place, I couldn't. "Go fuck yourself, Kara."

A chuckle escaped the woman as she looked at Melissa's body and then turned to look over her shoulder. I wasn't sure what to expect, but before I knew it, a large, burly figure of a man with a white beard stepped through the portal. The white robes he wore screamed hierarchy and I realized this himself was Odin, the man my father Hale had told me about often.

He wasn't pleased by the sight before him and everyone, including my parents, seemed to quake under his gaze. All except me.

that this would have happened, and it is my fault that it did. A young life was lost

her feet as she

no longer

birthday. Now I was going to be nice enough to give him a bit of extra time to say goodbye to their family and friends, but after this? There's no way that

echoed through the air, and as it did, the surge of power and authority echoed with it. He was

me here and there

get hurt because of me and honestly, disappearing from this place sounded a lot better than staying put.

looked over her shoulder at me. "Don't say that. No, you're not. I've worked too

killed my

I stammered, trying

of what had

can stay here after that? Do you really think that I.. I could risk