Chapter Fifteen

MY BIGGEST REGRET IS NOT ENJOYING THE SMALL MOMENTS I HAD WITH HER. -Emma

      How does it feel to be on fire? It left like getting a sunburn but hurting ten times আরো and আরো heat. It felt like being in a furnace অথবা being baked in an oven. It felt awful. আপনি would think that from all of that pain I would have surely died but I didn't. I was alive and each moment I inhaled it only got worse. I couldn't tell what had caused this pain but from the yelling I could tell Shane was fighting whoever did it. 
      My mind began to wonder away from the pain. It was too much to ভালুক especially since I wasn't going to faint অথবা die anytime soon. I was in a white room with a white rug. That was the only color I could see. There was nothing else. I was lying on a soft white বিছানা while an old woman put a spoon filled with a জেলি like substance. It tasted sweet like something mom would make.
      Her silver hair was in a braid that ran down her back. She had brown eyes and a soft smile. She looked like mom but not exactly like her. There were some different features when she smiled. She had laughing lines around her eyes and bags under eyes. It seemed আরো likely that I should be feeding her জেলি like substance. 
      I tried sitting up but she placed a shriveled hand on my shoulder and forced me back down. The other hand simply kept feeding me. She wouldn't say anything but I tell she had nothing today to me. If I wanted উত্তর I would have to make the first move. "Where am I?" That seemed like a good প্রশ্ন to ask first.
      "You should not be speaking. আপনি should be resting," she said. Her voice was stern but her smile was present.
      "I'll rest but I'll need some answers," I said.
      "I don't want to ruin your future but there is one reason why I have called আপনি here." She nervously placed the spoon on a টেবিল that was behind her. She closed her eyes and breathed in and out before she continued. "There is only on way to fully destroy The One. It is tricky but I know আপনি can do it. আপনি must first destroy his power উৎস which lies in The Grey Realm, then আপনি must find the strength within you, and finally take him and his army down."
      "What do আপনি mean power উৎস and what about Sophie?" My mind was spinning and my body was aching. 
     "Do this with someone আপনি trust. Sophie will die in the end. There is nothing I can do but please come back, not too soon."

When I awoke, I was back in the hallway. Sophie was standing over me and Shane was trying to block her. It wasn't working. I wasn't on আগুন anymore which to me was a sign that I wouldn't die. Sophie might have to. He red ring around Sophie's tender brown eyes made me assume that she was being possessed. It almost ripped my হৃদয় out but I kept it in. "This has nothing to do with আপনি Shane. This is between me, Sophie, and the demon inside of her."
      'It isn't time,' ব্যক্ত a small voice. It was Erica. She is near here somewhere.
      "You don't want to fight me," ব্যক্ত Sophie. "We are sisters. Instead of fighting আপনি should instead যোগদান me. The One can do anything and everything. He is all powerful. She we really be fighting the force that can grant us anything we want?"
      "Sounds tempting but no. I have my own plans and they don't involve The One." In one সত্বর move, I kicked Sophie and the gut and slid under the closing wall. Shane was already on the other side as soon as I had kicked my sister. It was painful to watch her clutch her stomach but it wasn't nearly as painful as it was to watch those beady eyes glare at me with hatred. I had only stalled Sophie অথবা The One for a while. 
      As the দেওয়াল closed down, trapping Sophie, Shane immediately turned to me. "What happened to you. I thought I হারিয়ে গেছে you."
      "It was nothing. It was just a visit from my grandma. She seemed to know how to defeat The One." I was pretty sure it was my grandma. She looked like me and my mom but she also had her own features. I could tell she was once a sight to behold. She still is.
      "I will support আপনি 100 percent. আপনি gotta tell me how to do it?" I could see Shane's eyes pleading with me. My grandma ব্যক্ত only to trust one person. Was it Shane? 
      My হৃদয় overpowered my brain. "She ব্যক্ত we must eliminate his power source, find the strength to kill him along with my sister and then destroy him and his army."
      "We need to get আপনি outta here. It isn't safe." Shame was already out the দুর্গ door and to the road which we had followed.
      I had to sprint to catch up with him. "Shane," I called. "It's not নিরাপদ anywhere. He will surely find us anywhere we decide hide."