Stone Circle vittorio

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... But it never came.

She lay there as the voice echoed in her ears --

You're not worth it.

-- Confirming everything that she had told herself before.

Except rather than receiving what she dreaded the most in this world -- not the sweet release of death but something far more diabolical -- nothing happened. Seconds ticked by as her heart beat thudded in the front of her head. It didn't add up. If she wasn't worth it, then why did he leave her be at last?

She was nothing more than a shell lacking any desire for life any longer. She had been from the day that Indra had been ripped by her side, and perhaps even before that. From the moment her latest children were born, but you know that it was much earlier than that, Laurel. His voice sent shivers down her spine as she did not hear whether it was Merrick or Iliksis that spoke to her in that moment, whether it was either of them actually speaking or just memories mixing with her messed up mind.

I'll be back he said, and she knew that he would be.

Because she knew what men were like.

She knew they would not relent. He won't relent. Next time.

Laurel lay there for a while. She didn't know how long or how short. Hours, days, minutes, seconds. Eventually she got up, and she started making her way back towards her home within Easthollow's confines. She wasn't safe here. Hadn't been, before this, but now --

But the truth of it was --

But the painful truth --

But his voice calling, whispering in her ears while a malicious smirk paints his face crimson red with her blood --

You aren't safe wherever you go.