BLOOD LEGACIES
Chapter 243: Voices {1}

Chapter 243: Voices {1}

EMMA

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It was all darkness... wasn’t that supposed to be what one sees when unconscious? But I see it all... I sense it... almost like there was a third eye somewhere and I was clearly alive to everything around me. My body, even though unmoving, could feel every single thing... the sound of the wind, I could hear it whistle in my ears, making those blowing noises. I could sense the rise and fall of the sun each passing day, and feel the cold too... It was getting colder every day and the snow was already sticking to the ground.

The presence of everyone who came into my room, leaving and staying, the smell of them too. I could hear Vanessa’s voice too, how she speaks to me, the pain, the sadness that clouded her voice and words, she would hold my hand and speak to me, in her assumption I couldn’t hear her but I did. I could feel the struggle she went through of how she couldn’t bring herself to tell my mom about my condition until she finally did.

"I called Vivian, I didn’t exactly tell her what happened to you, I just told her she really needs to come back. I don’t want her to panic on her way here, she gets like that every time"

Her words that day.

My mom came, cried, and stayed with me every single day and I really wanted to open my eyes but I couldn’t... my body was just too weak. I had no idea what Vanessa told her, how I ended up here but it seems like she was yet to know the cause of my state. She was left once again from the supernatural world and I appreciate it. It was better than knowing what really happened. I told myself...

I don’t know how long I have been in this position with only my mind roaming free. It hurts... each passing day because I knew of what Vanessa did... It hurts so much because he wasn’t allowed to see me. I could feel his pain even though it was just a faint fragment of it. I tried to sense him but I can’t... not anymore... that was when I began to move.

I was scared because I can’t sense Dace anymore. So I moved my finger.

I was angry because he was cast away because of Vanessa’s wishes. So I moved my big toe.

I was driven by a strong desire to see him again. I moved my head.

The voices in my head called to me and also the dream I had of Grayson.

’Find him’

A voice in my head took over me... That was when I opened my eyes. It was blurry at first until my vision settled and everything was clear but the bright lights made me narrow my eyes. My vision was back, clear and I scanned everything around me.

Not wasting a second I wielded my body to move. I thought I would have difficulty because I don’t know how long I have been asleep, maybe longer. But I moved.

I sat up first taking the mouth breather off and then the wires connected to my body, luckily it wasn’t needles, just one at my wrist. It will hurt and I knew it... But I had to take it off, I closed my eyes and gave it a fast yank, it was gone and I didn’t feel the pain.

I swung my legs off the bed and my bare feet found the cold floor. I turned my head and saw my reflection in the mirror just where the clock was. Standing on my feet slowly I got a better look at my features.

My curly strawberry blond hair was cut short and it was now neck length, Vanessa must have cut it, it must have been difficult to tend to while I was unconscious. I was hoping I would be way skinnier than I was before but I was just.... Okay? I was only pale and my green eyes were brighter. The hospital gown I wore was loose on my body, maybe I did slim down a bit.

I held my head, how long was I asleep? My eyes drift to a cardigan jacket on the chair. I grabbed it and put it on before walking to the door and grabbing the doorknob but I paused in opening it when I heard footsteps approaching.

It might be Owen, Vanessa, or my mom... because it was mostly them that looked after me. I can’t use the door. I turned to the windows, they were well barricaded, with the irons, and the glass window outside, instead of within. There was nowhere to leave in this room, it was like a box. My teeth gritted on each other... just how secure have they been keeping me?

I was angry now, the pent-up emotions I have concealed within my unconscious body set loose, I saw nothing but anger as I let my body drown in it. My visions turned to hue green and then I stretched my hand to my target and a spell slipped in just like that day I saw no effort to chant it.

I will not be kept here as a prisoner!

At my control, the iron bend, parted, making a loud noise and the glass cracked and then shattered. I willed the iron to bend until there was a space for me to pass through.

My hand fell to my side as I released a sharp breath, I noticed something stream down my nose and I knew what, it didn’t hurt me as I expected it just bleed like a drop of blood so I used the back of my hand to wipe it off and walked to the space I created for myself.

I was mindful of the glass because I was barefoot, no shoes for me. But I was more focused on getting out of here and freeing myself.

My bare feet found the snow.

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I thought my feet would be frozen by the time I was deep in the forest but no... I couldn’t feel the cold, at all. I should be worried about that... but I wasn’t. I was merely focused on where I was headed. I trekked in the middle of nowhere under the cold like I was being controlled. I was lost and I knew it but at the back of my head, I knew where I was going. Is it a gut feeling maybe? Or the strange voice in my head leading me.

The voice in my head kept telling me to go that way and I just let it guide me. It sounded like me and not just some stranger’s voice, like my body needed to be somewhere. I felt if I don’t do this I will never be myself.

I don’t know how long I followed this voice but I finally heard something like the chopping of wood. And then a pause, it became insanely quiet but I didn’t stop until I saw a house and then someone, that wasn’t just someone but Grayson, I could tell that body figure anywhere.

Suddenly a strong urge to go to him overwhelmed me and I couldn’t stop it or control it... I just had to go.

One minute I was walking to him and the next he twirled and shot an arrow at me... I wasn’t expecting that, maybe he didn’t know it was me.

The arrow was halfway towards me when I stretched my hand and stopped it in midair. That was a close call.

"Emma!"

I directed my eyes to him, he was shocked and pale at the same time. He rushed to me and I fling the arrow somewhere.

"Gra-" I couldn’t finish as he engulfed me in a tight hug, wrapping his arms around my body, that was when the voices stopped.

"Emma," he said once again but his voice was shaky, almost like he couldn’t believe I was here.

I sighed wrapping my hand around his back and we just stayed there, for a minute maybe. I just listened to his calm heartbeat and let myself relax and all my emotions in control.

And then he pulled away still having his hands on my arms, he watched me in disbelief and I just gave him a faint but it fades.

"I-I need your help" I found my voice but it was quiet. "I have to find Dace, I can’t sense him anywhere," I said almost in tears as the pain got to me again and suddenly my body felt everything, even the cold.

He must have noticed my shiver because that was when he leveled his gaze.

"What the fuck Emma, why are you barefoot?!"

"I..." I couldn’t even finish my words as I shiver once again. I just realized how cold I am.

"Come on, let’s get you inside," he said, leading me inside the house. "You have some serious explaining to do"