Must Read: A Broken Destiny: The Sword Of Vengeance

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Must Read: A Broken Destiny: The Sword Of Vengeance

KIERAN
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She wants me to be the sword of vengeance for the innocent or for her own personal gain? I asked within me. The answer to my question came after a few days. Ellen was teaching me how to control my steadily growing rage and how to fuse it with my gift when I suddenly asked why she doesn’t sleep. She opened her eyes and stopped what she was doing.
There was a look of surprise on her face when she opened her eyes but it left Just as quickly as it came.
“What do you mean by I don’t sleep?” she asked, then she leaned a little towards me and whispered,
“Are you watching me now?”
I smiled and stood on my feet,
“I have noticed that your demeanor changes when it approaches bedtime. Most times when I take a stroll around the compound as I think to myself, I notice that you don’t put out your lights. Even Claudia who loves reading so much still gets to do that. Moreover, I was once a hunter and I still am and I know the simple tricks used when one don’t want to sleep.
But in your case, you are not sleeping because you need to do something; you don’t sleep because you are unable to. Remember you are my teacher and I get to see you very close more than you usually allow to other persons around here. I am also quite gifted and I have often asked myself why there is this strange sphere of magic around you. I haven’t noticed that around the other teachers and not even Anna has such. Which is why every touch from you carries this tingling s£nsat!on of magic and that strange sphere is not for protection as no one, not even Lucien can get into this place. So, why create a wall of magic most people can’t see as most here are not witches or wizards when there is actually no need for it, except it is for hiding something you are ashamed of. When you were merging your gift with mine to help with what you were teaching yesterday, I had this urge to open my eyes and I did to see your face.

There are thick dark rings around your eyes which suggest you haven’t slept in a long time, which brings me to the question, why?”
All through my speech, she didn’t blink once; she just stared at me as I spoke. When I stopped talking, she chuckled for no reason and just took her things and moved away from my room. I was surprised at what she just did but it only confirmed what I just knew to be true; she doesn’t sleep. She didn’t visit me that evening as she has been doing since that night she lead me to that grave. I waited till night and looked towards the compound but I didn’t see her again. I decided to visit her late into the night. I knocked and after a while, she opened the door for me to come in. She returned to her bed and faced the wall. I sat on the head of the bed, away from where her butt0ckz were and apologized for whatever wrong thing I might have said. She didn’t say anything but just remained where she was.
I waited for some time and when it seemed like she had no intentions of changing her stance, I stood up to leave Only for her to drag me back down and hold my head with both her hands.

She started reciting some words after she placed her hands on my head and soon I felt myself slip into her consciousness. I saw several men taking turns in sleeping with her, I saw her kill those men and then I saw her carrying the body of another man. Then, I heard the man asking Ellen to take care of Claudia.

I snapped out of her mind after then and just stared into her eyes, horrified at the sheer wickedness of men. My rage surged within me as I remembered what those men were making Ellen do. Could that have been what those men who murdered my family did to my wife before she was hung? I stood up and faced the windows as I tried really hard to control my anger. The men responsible were not here presently so there was no need for my rage.
“Who were those men to you?” I asked.
“They were my cousins and uncle.” She replied in a husky voice. I shook my head; it explains why she doesn’t like men.
“What of the dying man on your arm?”
“His name is Eric, he sought to kill Lucien but he died doing so. I tried to help him but I was unable to. He was supposed to marry Claudia but he was unable to.”
I nodded and just walked out of her room, I didn’t even know where I was going to.
I just kept on walking until I got to the library and watched Claudia open page after page.
She doesn’t know her Eric is gone. She has that eating her up and yet she concentrates on her work to help me fulfill my destiny and how have been able to thank her?By making her sad and angry. I later left for my room and tried really hard to sleep but I couldn’t. The next day went as it should and I noticed that Claudia was looking at me in a strange way. She had something to say but she couldn’t say it. She later did during the night but that was the wrong time for her to do so as I tend to practice how to control my rage during such periods. I was unable to control it enough and I said what I shouldn’t have. She became angry too and went after the woman who was supposed to be her protector. I called after Claudia but she ignored me and continued her walk into the quarters. I walked after her, albeit slowly though as I anticipated some war of words.