Aurora was not sure where she was right now. When the commotion erupted in the building, she had been carried helplessly by the running crowd that she couldn't even determine which direction she came from.
The one small good thing of this was that everyone was too engrossed with the event that no one tried to stop here in the middle of the road. Taking the direction opposite from where the crowd was going, she hugged her arms around her middle and kept her face down, trying to keep her pace fast while directing most of her attention on the road to make sure she won't stumble.
She wants to find where Lilith was, but she was too afraid to approach the strangers in this town that she just ended up walking aimlessly on the road. She wasn't sure how long they were outside, as well, and the fright and other high emotions rolling inside her were making her hungry as time went on.
She knew she never had agreed with going out of her room.
All the happiness and excitement she had earlier seemed to evaporate as soon as she saw red on the floor.
It was sight that haunted her the moment her magic manifests. Whether they happened right in front of her or without her presence, the visions would always, always, haunts her, coming to her at any given moment and taking her by surprise. She had to report any visions that may come to her, and the fact that she had to relive these violence not only in her head but by having to talk about them torments her even more.
She loathes her gift.
The only time that she had been thankful of this curse was when she had, somehow, helped in saving a life of a little girl; a girl of her age, and whose appearance she shares.
She had tried to leave her place to talk to her. It was the first time she had seen someone close to her age, and it made her curious how the two of them looked the same.
It was only just that, curiosity. But tragedy continues to follow her wherever she was, and that curse had resulted in a terrible accident that almost killed the other girl.
She had, as usual, saw the moments before the accident happened, and she had managed to shout for help as she tried all she could to stop the bleeding.
It made her hands red, but for the first time she hasn't been afraid of it.
The adults managed to come shortly, and they managed to save the other girl. A frightened woman--she was easy to notice as her eyes looked the same as hers--had cried angrily at her. The words had stopped bothering her for some time now; she knows she's a harbinger of bad omens. She honestly didn't even register whatever words the woman--and the man trying to hold her--was saying, her eyes only following the direction of the girl as they too ker away.
She had been the first victim of her curse. She wanted her to survive.
It was the last day she had ever seen the outside world. The one who holds the authority had given their verdict, but she made peace with knowing that she didn't have that girl's blood on her hands anymore.
She really shouldn't have agreed to go outside. She didn't know what to do outside of the rules she'd been given.
She huddled close to a wall and hugged her knees, burying her face. Above her, the sky's starting to rumble and turn gray.
A pair of boots appeared on her periphery. She looked up and saw a familiar face. She had never really knew of other names aside from Lilith, but Aurora does know that she held the authority here. It was a deeply-rooted instinct to follow her words, just as much as the Curse had held this family of theirs in this town for too long.
"I didn't mean to," Aurora automatically said when their eyes meet. "I didn't wish for any of it to happen."
"Of course, dear," the older woman replied as she kneeled close to her. "We give you your rules to prevent any of this from happening. Yet you disobeyed them."
Aurora, helpless, only shook her head and buried her head back. "I hate this. . . I don't want this gift."
There was a moment of silence as rain started to pour. The two of them were safely covered from it, the rest of the world turning gray from the curtain of water.
"Do you wish for it to be gone?"
When she registered the words, Aurora looked up. Even as she smiled, Annette's eyes held no trace of warmth in them.
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Author's Note: Another short chapter! Sorry guys, but I'm having a little trouble getting the words out hahaha. What do you all think? Does this chapter worked with the rest of the story?
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