Chapter 26
Alora’s POV
As Darien was fighting his first opponent, I was thinking on the question he asked me. ‘Where had the chains come from. I wanted to know how they got there, but how to find out. I felt like this was important to know. The only way to get answerers was to ask questions.
“”Xena, do you know how we came to be bound by the chains?” I ask.
“No, they’ve always been there, since our birth” she says
“Since our birth?” I say questioningly, surprised, making me want to know why.
“Yes, since birth, there was even a chain that was supposed to keep me from coming to you” at this, I’m
shocked to my core.
“What?! You mean I wasn‘t supposed to be able to shift, to have you with me?” I ask her, panicked at the though of how horrendous my life would have been without having Xena, She’s all that’s kept me together during those really dark pain filled times I wanted to give up and die. I remember when I first heard her voice. 2)
Soaked in my own blood, the fire of so many wounds open. Some half healed, others new, all painful. I would cry silently wondering what I had done to deserve what was happening to me. All I wanted was to be loved, I couldn’t understand why they didn’t love me. Laying in the cold, dark and damp basement. I had heavy manacles around my wrists, they hurt, digging in and cutting into my skin. They were no longer necessary as I couldn’t even get up I was so weak. Why had they done this
to me? I kept wondering, was I really that bad a child? Did I really deserve this?
All I wanted was a piece of the birthday cake made for Sarah’s birthday. So I had asked for one. Mom got so angry, she started slapping me over and over till I collapsed in tears on the kitchen floor. Then she grabbed me by my hair, pulling me back up, slapping me more and more. My face was swollen and bloody, my lips were split, my eyes beginning to blacken. She was shrieking, her words a load roar to my ringing ears. 4)
A horrible demon that should never have existed! It disgusts me that you came from my womb! If I could
broken anything. I was always careful not to. I followed all directions, I didn’t disobey any directive I was given. I just wanted them to love me. I had apologized and begged her to
to my plea’s for forgiveness and to not hurt me. It never mattered how good of a girl I was, they always found
me down the stairs, each step painful to my back and brusing me further. She put the chains around my wrists.
I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’ll be good, I’ll be a
slash opened up in my flesh by the
leaving me there and walking back up the stairs. “I
me?
you?’ I had asked. ‘I am Xena, your wolf’ she told me. ‘But mommy said I would never have a wolf, that I didn’t deserve one’ I told her. ‘Every child born to a werewolf has a wolf she told me ‘I’m here now, you’ll never be alone again’
I
was the day I had stopped
them, and live my own life free of the pain and blood that was my existence with them. I shake my head to shake off the memory, tuning back into our present
that my mother had told me I would never have a wolf because I didn‘t deserve one” I remind
trying to break the chain that was trapping me in my
did you get free of
out, she came to me that night‘
she says
did the
from you, you will be free to be with your other half.” that‘s when she broke the chain. Then the
denied ascension, her first daughter born will never be acknowledged and gifted my blessing, it will be the
one
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