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She was looking at me. Her eyes widened with fear that went beyond what was happening in the room we were in.
It was as though she recognized me, and she thought I was her worst enemy.
“No,” Cari said as she took a step toward the mirror with the portal. “I am doing it.”
The queen’s gaze darted away from me and focused on her. “What?”
“I decided not to help you,” Cari said calmly as though they were discussing tonight's events years later. “You are not going to let me out of here. But if I die, you won’t have a way of creating any more monsters. And I think that is a good way to die, for me.”
The queen looked greatly dismayed. The shock made her nostrils flare and brows twist, taking away the elegance that had been all over her, even in her anger. She stared at Cari for a long moment before she tightened her fist.
“You think I need you to create monsters?” The queen’s voice was shrill but scary. “You have always been an idiot!”
The soldier standing a few paces away from her twitched as the queen turned around and walked to him. He didn’t move away.
She touched his shoulder. At first, I thought nothing would happen. But then, darkness took over him.
The man started to scream in agony as his body twisted awkwardly. It took only a few seconds for the transformation to start.
His bones broke with awful sounds that made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Pieces stuck out of his skin as his eyes widened with dread.
The man fell to his knees as the queen turned to us with a mad woman’s smile.
“I don’t need you to create the monsters,” she said calmly as the soldier’s wings unleashed and became twisted with monstrosity. He was full of pain and he screamed in agony. “I just needed you to control them.”
With that, the Queen of Light grabbed the transforming man by his tunic, and with strength I did not think she would have, she pushed the man into the portal.
As the man appeared in the room we were in, his transformation was complete.
He was a monster.
“Can you turn him back?” I asked Cari.
“No,” she replied, stepping away from the monster as it growled. “I can’t reach his mind either.”
“We will fight it,” Kieran said to us.
Dearen nodded and reached for his sword.
Qai snarled at the monster.
The queen was going toward another soldier.
“You see, Feremir,” the queen spoke as she moved, “the Unseelie have vile ways to win wars. This was the only way. I needed strength to protect the realm, and this was the only way.”
She reached the soldier. I knew what she was planning to do, and so did the man. He flinched and tried to run away before the queen reached him. He could not. The queen touched him too, and as the monster in the room of mirrors clashed with Qai, the soldier the queen touched started to scream in agony.
“You understand, don’t you?” She asked Feremir.
I could not see my brother’s expression. But I knew the queen was crazy to think he would still be on her side after witnessing what she had done.
“Yes, my queen,” Feremir replied. “You have to fight darkness with darkness.”
I could not believe it. I wanted to see his face. I wanted to...
“That is a great way to put it, my boy,” the queen smiled at him.
I felt a sudden rise of emotions in me. It took me a while to respond and understand what was happening since I felt multiple things at once: courage, joy, and happiness. It did not make sense.
