Willow's P.O.V
I was leaving the meeting room with Marsh by my side, pulling out my tube and opening it with my thumbprint, scrolling down, trying to find Drean's file to know more about her.
"Don't worry, Willow, she won't be able to use her magic," Marsh chuckles. "Especially with that chip on her neck suppressing her magic down."
He pats my back between my wings; the pain goes down my spine. I groan and look up at him, glaring.
"Please don't. I'm still in pain," I whine. " especially sitting in that three-hour meeting getting a bad lecture from Valdez."
I elbow Marsh on his ribcage lightly and continue walking ahead to our office, putting my tube away in my pocket.
"So how's your silly experiment going? Did she die yet? Or is she the reason why in different villages people are going missing" I ask?
I look over at him and he stops walking his eyes are wide in complete shock.
"The food. . . I forgot to give her more food to last a week" Marsh panics.
I take ahold of his wrist pull him closer to me and stare him in the eyes.
"So I'm right your experiment is the one killing all those people! She needs to be killed or put in prison Marsh" I whisper harshly.
He shakes his head frantically and bites his lower lip.
"I-I can't sh-sh-sh-she's valuable" Marsh stutters with a panicked tone in his voice. "If she is trained well enough during this year we could use her against the rebels?"
"Fuck the rebels Marsh your safety is more important than making someone sane of a culture of people that are almost extinct because they couldn't control their powers"
Marsh pulls his wrist back and looks down with his eyes closed breathing heavily.
"Nothing will happen to me Willow." He whispers.
He turns around and walks away tapping his thigh. I shake my head and feel someone tap my shoulder turning around and looking down to see Valdez with his arms crossed.
"So I found out that there's another missing person case with that same monster that's been going to different villages, Drean, Zephyr and Justice are on the move slowly," Valdez says considering.
"Well I have my case to deal with Valdez, it's not like the monster is related to mine in any way"
I glare down at Valdez waiting for him to respond on what to say next to know that I'm right for once.
He covers his metal eye and looks down at his arm where metal and wire take up the forearm, I place my hand on top of it and crouch down title my head to look into his other good eye.
"I have lots of paperwork to do, if you need anything else sir just send me a message on the tube," I say softly.
Straightening my back and groaning quietly I walk away from him, the pain in my back just gets worse and worse the more I walk the heavier my wings feel as a tear builds up and goes down my face, not bothering to wipe it away I quickly pass a bunch of other officers not bothering to look at me being ashamed. . . of that incident.
'It's not my fault I think to myself.
Standing in front of my office with my hand on top of the doorknob, opening it with a loud creak the room dark the only light inside is the stars with the curtains wide open, stepping inside and making my way to look at the ridth-turaqur moon.
Spinning around and turning on the light in the shape of my first dagger from home that's broken in half, I look over at my door again seeing my silhouette in the mirror. My golden eye shines bright and my dark skin blends with the shadows around the room, I tap my fingernails on the crei wood desk and my screen glows white showing an image of my mom with straight black hair and her skin copper brown and eyes with a hint of gold lines in between the light brown with my dad's dark skin and his brown feathered wings tucked in tight as he's wearing a headpiece made of red rocks across his forehead with beads in between along with patterns of colours making the red rocks pop out as they stand next to each other not smiling no emotions showing.
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Pacing back and forth as I pick at my lower lip slightly digging my nails into it causing blood to drip out, I stop and stare at the screen with my message ready to send to him and worried about what I've found out.
I quickly walk around my desk as I sit down. Re-reading the message before I send it to his tube, pressing send.
Dear Valdez.
I have come across some information about Drean the princess within the last three hours before we last talked. I know it's late at night and you have your work to do but I was wondering if we could meet up on the ship and talk for a bit.
~ Willow.
I sit back and rest my head with my eyes closed my backaches spreading to my shoulder blades like hands pressing down where the beginning of the wings is attached to the spine as they intertwine with each other becoming one that's affecting the muscles that are attached to everyone's wings.
My Tube makes three loud beeps making my head ring, as it glows yellow bringing light into my office. Rubbing my face as I look down at my tube and open it, seeing the report about three escaped prisoners my eye skims across the words written about myself and about how the other guard's titles should be stripped of our places for losing the three highly watched prisoners.
I scream and throw the tube across the room as it hits the wall and shatters a huge dark mark is imprinted and those pieces fall and well it melts into the floor causing a stain of those pieces.
Hearing aloud crack a piece of metal falling to the ground as a light flicker behind me, my eyes go wide in fear of my dagger breaking more, stumbling over my legs shaking making me weak to the knees as I reach across falling to the ground with a loud thump my forearm hitting the edge of the Crei wood desk causing a huge mark to form, wincing putting my hand on the edge digging my nails into the wood as they lift pain going up my fingers gong on the sides and up to my knuckles as it catches along making me lose my grip making me fall to the ground again. A knock on the door catches my attention making me turn my head at the loud creak of the door and someone opens it more.
"Miss. Willow a friend of yours wishes to speak to you," a lady says with a hoarse voice.
Her heels click and clank against the floor then stop in place turning my head to see four-inch heels that are sunset orange matching her mint colour skin, looking up at her legs seeing tattoos of a bunch of moon flowers around her knees seeing a tight grey dress with her hands on her thighs kneeling looking directly into my eye, as she moves strands of her white shoulder-length hair behind her ear well she smiles showing her sharp teeth with a faint blush going across her cheek.
"Ahhh, Miss. Gooraie aren't I glad to see you just the one I was going to make a phone call about some problems in my office!" I say with a cheerful voice slightly sounding sarcastic.
we both chuckle as she walks around me as I turn around watching her every move as her hips sway and I look up at her back with a visible tattoo of some symbol on her neck poking out of her long-sleeved shirt.
Quietly getting up as I avoid all the creaks on the floor, I creep up behind her and gracefully touch the back of her neck as she yelps out my name and turns around slapping my hand away her eyes wide in shock.
"Miss. Willow!!! you have no right to touch me without permission please take a step back this instant" Gooraie says seriously.
"I saw a tattoo and was curious what it meant. I'm sorry for touching you . . . um could you possibly make a meeting with Valdez this afternoon if he's free?" I softly ask.
She walked passed me glaring as she adjusts her shirt not being able to see her tattoo, I looked down pushing my hair back as I sighed loudly.
"So you said a friend is here to visit me?" I questioned.
A whisper of a yes as she quickly walks out with a small blush across her face, my jaw drops as I look around my office seeing the mess I made hitting my lower lip and realizing I messed up a lot.
"How's my beautiful wife doing" Alexa cheered.
I leaped across the room toward her wrapping my arms around her waist as I pick her up and spun us around not bothered by the huge stabbing pain in my back I smile kissing her on the cheek as she giggles wrapping her arms around me back.
"A lot better since you got here my love!" I chuckled.
She stroked my hair back looking into my eye as her smile twitched and she made it bigger.
"I love you so much Juniper Willow" Alexa whispered