The Golden Awakening

I would have done anything to not live this fateful day, oblivious to what was written inside the letter, which still remained sealed on the desk. The waiting seemed as if it were destroying me from the inside. Even though, I still was not ready to find out what words were hiding inside the sealed envelope.

"You two shouldn"t be here," Aliya screamed.

I hastened my pace towards the door half opened, while I tried to figure out what they were talking about.

"The girl, is it her?" the hoody guy asked.

The other one came in my direction and said, "I am Aaron Huskera and this is Viktor Prasken. Do you know why we are here metin rae?"

"What? My name is Sarah, not m-"

I was unable to finish the sentence as Viktor began to laugh out loud, "you are a hilarious metin rae," he said.

"Was your mother the only family alive?" Aaron asked.

Who were they? I repeated in my mind, since what they were asking made no sense.

"Do you need to do it now?" Aliya said.

"Ms Clarke, we have a metin rae who was capable of nearly killing fifteen people a week ago, so we most certainly need to," Viktor said.

"No, I would not be able to harm anyone and what is a metin rae? Answer me!"

"Sarah, we just need to know how you did it," Aaron said.

"I don"t know what you are talking about!"

"Stop lying!" Viktor shouted, as his face became red as a poppy. Just two seconds ago he laughed at what I said and now he was shouting at me, "Aaron she must be a tersen. She is one of them I tell you."

"Do I have to repeat myself? I don"t know what gibberish you two are talking about."

Viktor took his hood off, "Huskera my limit is coming to an end, I"ll get the information with my own methods," he said, while from his hands appeared a strange substance, a crimson fog, which kept surrounding me.

I took two steps back; my breathing became heavier than normal, while my body was numb. I started panicking as my hands shook uncontrollably, which only made things worse. My throat began to shrink faster, and my muscles were weakened even though I did not move. If I thought of escaping, it would not have been feasible even if I wanted to. My eyes began to burn, while my screams of pain echoed within the walls of this kitchen.

"Metin rae tell me! Where did you steal the powers which you now own?" Viktor maniacally said.

I could not breathe; how could he think I would have been able to speak? In his previously brown eyes, a golden circle formed, which covered the outer part of his pupil.

"Stop, you"ll kill her!" Robert shouted as he tried to throw a punch to maybe divert the morbid attention Viktor had towards me.

"Boy, do you think you have any chance of attacking me," Viktor quickly blocked him. He smiled, as it was clear how torturing and seeing us in this state made him feel invincible. He did not know what real pain was, as I could read it through his soulless eyes.

I could not understand how people, no, how actual monsters such as himself had the opportunity to live in this world, while my mother could not live another day. I had never felt so much rage flowing through my body, and even though my own eyes were blurred by the smoke and burned as I peeked, I could distinctly feel Robert"s pain and every punch which was inflicted on him.

"Viktor, what is happening? Her eyes are awakening yet again," Aaron said.

I was not weakened anymore, he had to suffer for his actions in the same way he had inflicted it on us or worse. I would have given him all of my sufferings, make him cough blood like I was, how did he dare think of attacking Rob.

"I am sorry girl, but this experiment ends here," Aaron said. As he walked near me, his eyes changed just like Viktor"s, a golden ring appeared, but this time red veins covered the sclera.

"Why are you doing this?" I asked.

"a.r.s.en," he whispered, as his hand gently touched my neck, this word echoed in my mind, as I felt abnormally drowsy.

***

I woke up on a green sofa as my head was resting on Aliya"s legs, I could lucidly see those same guys going through my stuff.

"What do you think you"re-" Aliya stopped me before I could say another word, which could have angered them any further.

"Leave them, honey," she whispered.

"There is nothing here," Viktor said.

"We need to know who gave her those powers," Aaron said.

"Stop talking nonsense, you tried to kill me and Rob."

"If I wanted to, the both of you would have already been dead."

"Stop Viktor," Aaron said.

"Your friend is alive like you are, for now," Viktor said.

Aliya was standing close to Robert, making sure he probably did not do anything reckless.

"Do you remember what happened when your mother died?" Aaron asked.

"Are you seriously asking me if I remember my mother"s death? I don"t know, I must have forgotten everything!"

"Do you know what you did?" Aaron said while repeating the same question over and over.

"I pa.s.sed out."

"In some way, you gave your pain to all the people around you, everyone was suffocating, puking water from their lungs. We came before you could kill anyone," Aaron explained.

"I don"t remember any of this. You are all crazy!"

"So, tell me, did you see anything else?" Aaron asked.

I had a strange connection with my mother, I saw her memories, I felt her emotions. There was no way I could have reviled all this to them, they would have used it against me and it was my secret to keep.

"It"s none of your business," I remarked.

"What an insolent girl," Viktor said.

"We already have the information we needed, we will need to go back and report it," Aaron said.

"What? You really want to leave this being here?" Viktor shouted.

"Sarah, a man named Rayleigh will come in a month and take you to Naeyriv," Aaron said, as he constantly stared at me.

"And you expect me to come and say nothing? I won"t go anywhere until I have real answers."

"No, you"ll come and be tested and depending on what happens, then you might know something," Aaron said.

I had so many questions or I merely could not believe what was happening. It seemed as my world went upside down in an instant, and I would have gladly wanted it to be a joke, instead, they simply walked right past me.

"Hara Seleanor herall," Viktor said as he gently touched the mirror.

As they went through it, I could not see their reflection, but from the distance, people were walking on a secluded street near what seemed to be a palace of justice.

Even after many hours pa.s.sed by, I stood in front of this mirror, perhaps my mind could not process all the information all at once. I nearly killed people without even knowing I was capable of such a thing and now I was here, as I examined what had happened to my life.

"Sar, what are you thinking?" Robert said as he sat down near me.

"There must be something wrong with me, there must be."

"I am here if you-"

"I know, I"m just thinking how can I rationalise people coming through mirrors? How can it be that my best friend is a golden eyes creature?"

"Half golden eyes creature."

"And what am I? A human? A mistake?"

"You"ll never be a mistake; you don"t need to label yourself."

"Who am I Rob?"

"You are Sarah, a girl that I kissed under the table the first time we met. A brave girl who tried to save me while you were suffocating. My best friend."

"I need her the most now."

"I won"t leave you, I"ll be here every b.u.mp in the road like we always do for each other," he said, as he took two rings out of his pocket.

"I wanted to give you this on your birthday, but after what happened I"ll give you my present earlier than it was planned for."

"What are they?"

"They are special rings in our world, they are called Ienwren."

"You even have your own language? I guessed it when they were saying those nonsensical words."

"It means the mirror of your soul. It doesn"t matter where you are, I"ll always be here whenever you"ll need me like you would for me."

"Always?" I asked.

"I will be eternally beside you."

"Wouldn"t it be tiring to be eternally beside me?"

"From the moment we met, we have always been a soul divided into two bodies. Now running through an eternally epic journey."

His words were sincere. Our friendship, our love as anyone might call it, would have always been a soulful one. Every time I looked at him, it gave me a vast security of what we had for each other, for me it was more than friendship or than love itself, it was beyond anything in this world, as words would have failed to describe what I felt when I was with him.