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)
don’t deserve to have it you 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
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
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 being born
had dragged me down the stairs, each step painful to my back and brusing me further. She
“Mommy no! Please no! I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’ll be good, I’ll be a good girl, mommy please, please
put my hands over my face, screaming, tears streaming. With every slash opened up in my flesh by the
Her last words before leaving me there and walking back up the stairs. “I hope you die you wretch, you deserve it for destroying this family with your birth, filthy demon.” Why was I a demon, how could I
me?
your wolf’ she told me. ‘But mommy said
told me. I cried
day I had
the day I started to plan my escape from them. They didn’t deserve me, so I would take myself away from them, and live my own life free of the pain and blood that was my
first came to me I remember telling you that my mother had told me I would never have a wolf because I
I had been trying to break the chain that was trapping me in my ‘space‘ keeping me from
did you get free of the chains”
Goddess had heard me crying out,
she says
“What did the
will not be kept from you, you will be
birthed you and your human half cannot 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 will be the second daughter born, the one most like the first Alpha, who I have blessed, the one
the one who did
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