Her fall
has just begun. Only his touch can save her from the shift that could destroy
it all. Within my blood runs a thing our kind calls the Shadowing Disease. It
shadows over, and bends everything to its will. When the first blood- shift
came, it tore through flesh and blood, threatening to bend me, break bone,
shatter my mind and entrap my heart with its honeyed, seductive poison. It came
with vicious intent, moving my thoughts and altering me forever. The shift has
caused a rift within me. No one was safe when it entrapped me in its claws of
foul lust. But I have the only antidote against the evil that becomes me - his
touch alone has the power to release the spurs of sweet darkness that clung on
for dear life. I knew what I had to do; the desperation pulled my mind with the
deep determination of a hungry predator. By the time the revelation raised me
from the dark dungeon of my bounds - it might have been too late.
My makers would say I was created for revenge. I say, I was
born to prove them wrong. I defied the Council and its Keepers. Fought back against the dark magic of our
enemies, but I am afraid it had come at a cost. Inflicted
with the dark disease, I was lost in every possible way; and they were wrong –
death does not bring you your true purpose. After death, I am more misplaced
than ever, but only because I am immune to guidance. I relive my darkest
moments over and over again, just to remind myself of who I am.
I am the destined one. The haltered. For me, there is no
love and no release, only destruction; but I am on a path to be free of its
burden. I do love and I will have it, absorb it and never, ever, let all its
enchanting affections go. In order to be with love, there is only one path to
lead me there; through this war. But nothing and no one knows what awaits on
the other side, or what lies have been afflicted upon us about the after.
Remorse is an infection I no longer want. I had made apocalyptic mistakes, and
will probably keep on faltering forward. It has become my only direction in a
reality where there is none. To him, there is no him, if there is no me. He is
bound to me, and I hated it more than I will ever confess. His cross to bear is
me, and to be that – to be this – is a curse I must fight.
When the first true blood-shift came, it tore through flesh
and parted blood, threatening to bend me, break bone, shatter my mind and
entrap my heart to become its will. It comes with vicious intent, moving my
thoughts and touching me with a cutting effect from the inside. It has many
ways of bleeding out, and when it releases, there is nothing I can do to stop
it. No one is safe when it entraps me in its claws of foul lust. Corrupt,
damnable, depraved, destructive, hideous, demonic; your kind would call it many
things. I have a weapon against the profane that becomes me – his touch alone
has the power to release the talons of a sweet darkness that clings on for dear
life. It has one trigger – my guilt. I can change it if only I can take the
leap, surrender myself utterly. I am ready with all of me, for all of him.
I know what I have to do, the desperation of it pulls my
mind with the unfathomable determination of a ravenous predator. I let it sink
in hard and true. I feel the swell of the fight fill me with a bitter
sweetness, and with a glorious soothing pain that tears my mind from the
disease which transforms me. My loss has become my fight as I watch it all
wither away. But, I will never stop fighting. I am my own destiny; my destiny
is to be with him. And the Truth-seekers of this prophecy will not take it
lightly.
Everything else becomes Evanescent.
Carlyle is an South African award winning author, with a
flair for mixing genres and adding loads of drama to every story she creates. For
now she is happy to take over the world and convert non Sci-fi believers.
Her goal as an author is to touch people's lives, and help
others love their differences and one another by delivering strong messages of
faith, love and hope within every outrageous world she writes about.
"I love to swim, fight for the trees, and am a food
lover who is driven by my passion for life. I dream that one day my stories
will change the lives of countless teenagers and have them obsess over the
world literacy can offer them instead of worrying about fitting in. Never
sacrifice who you are, it’s in the dark times that the light comes to
life."
Carlyle used writing as a healing tool and that is why she
started her very own writers support event - SAIR bookfestival.
"To be a helping
hand for those who strive to become full times writers, editors, bloggers,
readers and cover artists - it’s a crazy world out there you don’t have to go
it alone!"
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