Blood Witch

[Innocence]

Chapter 8

The next day we found a spot and made camp. I sat down with a happy sigh. Damen smiled and then sat the pack down, I crawled over to it and took out the water canteen. After taking a drink and putting it back, I went to help Damen.

Once everything was set up we ate. It was a meal of bread, cheese, and dried meat. It didn't really fill me up but it would have to do. After everything was put away I took out the book and looked at it.

As I looked inside I found spells for sickness, love and other really not worth my time. I looked it over once more and then closed the book. I looked up to see Damenm staring at me, I blushed and looked away. He snickered and said "I bite that hard, please come sit by me" then he patted the spot next to him.

I sat next to him and he asked "so what were you running away from when we met?" I looked down and whispered "I was running from guards for high treason." Damen raised a brow and asked "what for?" and I replied "not using my ability to help the King." Damen nodded and then leaned back thinking, since there was nothing else to say I curled up on the ground and fell asleep.

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The next morning I awoke to the smell of something burning. I opened my eyes to the forest going up in flames. I scrambled up and saw Damen stumbling around. I rushed over and coughed "what's going on?"and he replied "your King's guards are on to us." I paled and rushed back to grab the pack. I opened the bag and grabbed the book, as soon as that happened the bag burst into flames.

I clutched the book to my chest and ran back to Damen. Then something hard landed on me and I fell to the ground. I opened my eyes to see Owen, I gasped and began to struggel as he tied my hands and feet, then he gagged me. I looked away to see Damen in same position, except he had a black eye. Owen lifted me onto his horse and shoved my book into his saddle bag. Owen led the way, I didn't have to ask where we were going. It took a week to get back and during that time we weren't fed at all.

As we rode I tried to mentally talk to Damen, then I remebered a spell my dad taught me. I loked straight at Damen and willed him to looked at me. When he finally did I quickly whispered the words malay and felt the connection to Damen.

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Damen are you okay? I thought, he looked at me startled and then replied only a few bruises how about you? I shrugged and asked what are we going to do? Damen looked away and said I don't know.

Chapter 9

I sighed in defeat and then said to him I'm going to break the connection now talk to you soon. Damen nodded and then I turned away. After a while they stopped and made camp. We were led to a tree and tied to it, once we were tied Owen came over and sneered "so Rebecca you found someone else to use." I looked at him with wide eyes but said nothing. Owen chuckled to himself and then threw the spell book into my lapand leaned into whisper "it can't help you now can it?" then he walked away laughing.

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I looked down so Damen wouldn't see my tears. Once I had stopped crying I looked up to see that everyone was asleep. I turned to Damen and gently kicked his leg, he opened his eyes and stared. I smiled and reached my hand out to his and he grabbed my hand tight within his own. Once I knew he wouldn't let go I fell asleep.

When I awoke the next morning I was already strapped to a horse and Damen had another black eye. I looked away as Owen climbed onto the horse. As we rode Owen leaned in and whispered "so now are you going to help my father?" I shook my head no and he said '' pity looks like Alisa is going to have to stay with us a little longer. You know she's been asking for you." I trembled with fear and tried vainly to block him out. Suddenly I heard Damen shout "hey you bastard, leave her alone." Owen laughed and made a signal to the guard that was with Damen and then the guy punched Damen. I screamed and tried to get off the startled horse.

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Owen swore and held me tight. I shifted around a bit and then took a chunk out of his arm. He cursed and let me go, I jumped down and rushed to Damen. He already knocked the guy out and was ready to leave. I took one step and the remebered the book. so I rushed back in all the commotion and grabbed it. I got back to Damen and whispered "let's go," he nodded and grabbed my hand and ran.

We rab like our lives depended on it (which it did). we entered the forest and Damen pulled me behind a tree and held me close. As we stood there Owen and the guards galloped past, once they were gone I breathed a sigh of relief. Damen laughed quietly and whispered "now that was close." I nodded and tried to step back, but Damen wouldn't let go. Instead he held on and bent his head to mine.

Chapter 10

I gasped and pulled away. Damen looked away all red in the face. Then he said sheepishly "sorry that was the adrenaline talking." I nodded and said "shall we go now?" he nodded and held onto my hand and began running again. As we ran I heard the pounding of hooves and a voice shout "there they are." Damen muttered an oath and began running faster.

I tripped over a root and broke my wrist. Damen saw me fall, but he couldn't get to me. I looked up eyes watering with pain to see Owen, he smiled and slid off his horse. He walked over to me and said "tsk, tsk Rebecca looks like you have to come with me after all." Owen grabbed my broken wrist and I smothered a scream as he threw me onto his horse. I looked back to see Damen running away and the guards didn't seem to care. Owen picked up the book and shoved into his saddle bag. He got onto the horse the began to ride away. I looked back in Damen's direction and mouthed "malay."

[LizzyTwoTwo]

please write more

[surreal adventure]

Very well written. I quite enjoyed it. The drama kept me going. But I have some suggestions:

There was a bit too much nodding in this story for my taste. Every other word was "nodded". Try to use other things.
The action started out pretty fast in the story, like in the beginning, and I don't know if I liked that or not.
Usually stories are calm when they start out, then they get to a certain adventurous point.

But good job! One of THE BEST I've read on here! And that's saying a lot. ; 0

[Innocence]

{thank yopu for those suggestions, i didn't notice it and it's my first time writing online so it should be a little wrong. what other words should I use?}

[Manafest]

Wow so much suspense! Good job!

[surreal adventure]

Well, maybe try using things like "I mumbled my agreement" or "I shook my head no" (in case u r doing "no" parts)
And maybe also just a simple old "Okay" wouldn't do you any harm. Now im not saying that you should NEVER use nodding, its very good for some points in the story, but people tend to get bored when you use the same word over and over again. try to switch it up a bit xD Ill keep reading as well because i find it awesome! XD