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)
wretch! Your nothing but a blight, a mistake, a good for nothing worthless wretch! A horrible demon that should never have existed! It disgusts me that you came from my womb! If I could I would
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 forgive me, sobbing that I was sorry, that I would be a good girl, begging her
breath, they never listened to my plea’s for forgiveness and to not hurt me. It never mattered how good of a girl I was, they always found some minute reason to punish me. Even a bad time at the grocery store would be taken out on me. Because just by
me further. She put the chains around my wrists.
“Mommy no! Please no! I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’ll be good, I’ll be a good girl, mommy please, please
my face, screaming, tears streaming. With every slash opened up in my flesh by the whip, my blood flying every where, I screamed. Until
falling, not a sound coming from me. Her last words before leaving me there and walking back
me?
chime ‘Your not a demon, your a werewolf, and I’m here now’ she had said, ‘Who are 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
mate who will love and accept you too’ she told me. I cried
was the day I had stopped
I would take myself away from them, and live my
told me
was trapping me in my ‘space‘ keeping
get free of
had heard me crying out, she
she says
did the Moon Goddess do?” I ask
chain and It broke. She said “Your destiny to be with your human half will not be kept from you, you will be free to be with your other half.” that‘s when she
escape her punishment, for rejecting her destined mate she has failed to be true to her bloodline. She was told, as punishment she was denied ascension, her first daughter born will never be acknowledged and gifted my blessing, it
one who
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