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I take a few steps back, suddenly feeling very unsettled. Something about this feels very wrong. What does this new gift mean? What is the intention behind it?
The overwhelming need to know who the fuck is leaving this shit envelops me, but another part of me never ever wants to find out. So which part will win in the end? I’m not sure I want to find out any time soon.
I survey the clearing once more. Are they here right now, watching me? Can they see the thoughts crashing through my head? Can they smell the fear radiating off of me? Why haven’t they shown themselves to me?
The amount of questions in my mind is never-ending. I have no idea what the fuck to think.
Skye does a loop around my head, and I snap back to reality. I should probably leave. Nothing good can come of me hanging around here.
I walk away without taking the collar, refusing for the first time to take one of the gifts. Something in me just screams that it’s not right. Something is definitely off about this gift, and I ponder it the whole way home.
Back in my room, I take my new necklace off and quickly discard it in a drawer before wrapping myself up in my blankets and closing my eyes. That’s when it occurs to me. What if the person behind these gifts gets angry that I rejected one? What if they feel the need to retaliate?
I shiver at the thought. But the more I think about it, the more I wonder what it was about today's particular gift that made me not want to take it. And more so, why am I now feeling intrigued by it?
I rub my thighs together, and suddenly, I feel very impatient. I throw the covers off of me and look out my window. The night sky stares back at me.
Even though I know that this can’t go anywhere good, a very small part of me deep inside wishes I had taken the gift. An even bigger part of me wonders why that is.
I shiver again and huddle under the covers once more, forcing myself to close my eyes and forget about all of this.
12
THALI
I’m in an oddly good mood today, and it’s mostly because of Brielle. How can this girl have such an effect on my day without even actually being in it?
I left the collar for her the other day, and I haven’t been back yet to see if she took it or not, although I’m not actually worried about that. She’s taken every single gift I’ve left, even if she hesitated at some of them.
I’m only upset that I didn’t get to see her face when she took this one. I usually like to be there, to see her excitement or wonder. I like seeing her radiant smile that shines brighter than the sun.
Unfortunately, I had a job to do yesterday, so I had to just leave it before she got there. I guess I could’ve waited to give it to her, but I didn’t want to risk her going out there only to find nothing from me.
But today I’m going back to see if she took it, and if she did, then I’m going to track her down and see how amazing her beautiful neck looks with it on. It’ll be hard not to approach her and trace my finger over it, but I’ll just have to make myself wait. Not much longer though.
I’ve already decided that I’m going to approach her soon. I’m fairly certain that she won’t be scared off. She obviously likes my gifts, and she knows that I’ve been leaving them for her and her alone.
I know she wants to meet me just as much as I want to meet her. And it’s going to be exquisite.
I’m on top of a building in Lowtown, scoping the place out. Even though I’m not in charge of these humans, I like to keep more of an eye on them since finding Brielle.
If anything were to spark here, it would directly affect her, and I would need to make sure to get her out safely before anything got bad.
As I’m looking around, I spot Kaisax. He’s lurking outside the very same factory that I know Brielle works at, and it immediately starts a fire in my veins. He’s watching them from the shadows as the morning shift filters out of the factory's front doors.
I jump from rooftop to rooftop until I’m on top of the building that’s directly across from the factory. I’m going to approach him, but I need to get a closer look at what my brother’s doing before I jump down there.
The focused look on his face makes me even angrier. Why does he even care about these humans?
I mean, I know that technically he owns most of them, but he hasnevershown any interest in them before. His methods have always been hands-off. If anything, he gets a lower-class elf to do his dirty work when it comes to the humans. This is definitely new behavior for him, and I need to find out why.
When I’ve had enough of watching, I jump down from the roof, landing perfectly on my feet. The humans near me scatter immediately, some outright running down the street. I grin at the fear, feeding off of it like I always have.
Kaisax trains his eyes on me and jerks his head to the alley next to the factory before stalking off in that direction. I meet him there, and before I can even get a word in, he’s talking.
“You think I didn’t know you were watching me this whole time? You think I didn’t know it the minute you stepped foot on the first roof?”
“Kaisax, I really don’t give a shit whether you knew it or not. But if you did know, then why not wave hello?” I smirk.
