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Original X-roads-2003
“Come on Jasylin, don be like dat to your ol pal Jonothan.” he held out his hand.
I glanced around for any sight of Sertoff, there was nothing. Slowly I walked towards him, “What is it?”
He met me halfway and set his arm around my shoulders as we started walking. “Ahh ma amie,” he sighed. “When ya gonna let up on ol Jonothan? Realize he ain’t such a bad guy.”
His whispers could set my soul on fire if I let them. I closed my eyes for a second and drew in my breath. Slowly I opened them and looked straight ahead, I can’t do this to myself. If Sertoff was to see… The price is just too high. Yeah keep telling yourself that, eventually you’ll believe it.
“Do you remember all de good times we had?” he crossed to my other side. “Think back ma amie.”
As he waved his hand in front of my face I began to feel strange. A lightheaded feeling passed over me, my eyes began to blur out. Slowly I blinked…
I stood on light sandy beach, a sea of deep violet lapping on the shore. Three suns shone brightly in the far distance, the heat pouring from them was moderate. Moderate compared to the time of day anyway. A cool breeze blowing my hair off my shoulders. Jonothan by my side, I feel so, so, In Love?!? But I can’t love him, I can’t love anyone. That’ll just mess things up for me, I am who I am. He’ll change me. Then he’ll leave me. Is that what I want? To be hurt? I don’t think that’s what I want. There’s a million reasons to say no, but there’s a fire deep inside of me burning. I look at him and I see everything I want, everything I’ve dreamed about. I ache because I want him, but something in the back of my mind says don’t risk it. Have you forgotten what it feels like to be hurt? And I haven’t forgotten, I’ll never forget.
“This is just charm, D’Brau.” I said firmly.
“D’Brau?!?!” he stood in front of me and raised my face to look into my eyes. “What de matter wit you gal? He got you so brainwashed you forget your feelin’s for ME?”
A chill of coldness raced down my back, I closed my eyes and held in my breath.
Jonothan moved away from me and glared at Sertoff, “You thin I just gonna let you do dat to my best gal?”
I opened my eyes as I heard Sertoff pull his sword, quickly I spun around and watched. Sertoff raised the sword and it began to hum. It was low pitched, dull sort of hum. I could feel the energy flowing in it, energy I never felt from it before. So all this time he hasn’t been using it, not really using it.
Jonothan smiled, “What you gonna do? Kill a Immortal?” his voice taunted.