Blood Curse

"How do you know it is mine?" Jayden asked.

Swan laughed "When you are marked you know it!" She whispered.

He couldn't make sense of it, but he had no choice because everything that's been happening to him lately didn't make sense at all, so he stopped asking questions.

"Are you ready now?" She smiled.

"Okay but not like this! If you must serve me then do it like a friend, you are not my slave! Get up from the ground and sit beside me" He tapped on the bed.

She looked into his eyes with innocence, and the slightest smile appeared on her face, that could hardly be seen just by her eyes, she liked how he cared for her by doing little things.

She agreed to sit with him, but not beside him, this task needed them both to sit face to face, she extended her hands toward Jayden's when he placed both of his hands on her hands.

She didn't say anything instead his hands raised by themselves in the air, and a ball of wind started swirling between their hands.

After a few minutes it stopped, and she opened her eyes.

Jayden was looking at her like a little kid, she giggled "What?" She asked.

"Is it done?"

"Let's see" She answered and pulled out a small knife from an apple on her bedside table.

"Sorry, it will hurt" She squinted a bit and asked him to open his hand.

She shoved the knife in his palm and pulled it down to make a small cut, he moaned with pain. Then she showed him her palm it had the same wound as Jayden's.

Jayden's eyes widened when he saw his wound sewing up by itself, it healed within a minute.

"What are you looking at Jayden? You are a werewolf!" She fell on the bed while laughing.

Her laughter made him smile and embarrassed.

Someone knocked on the door, it was Emric "We sent Kace with a few scouts to get Brigid!" He said and left.

Upon asking Swan told him who Brigid is, she's a very powerful witch.

"Didn't the only witch die?" Jayden was asking about Cithara.

"There's no only witch!" She held the door as Jayden walked out of there "Witch is nature's work! Witches are born witches! From time to time nature sends a witch to keep balance on supernatural things"

"And who's Kace?" He asked.

"That guy? The one who carried me on his shoulder?" She smirked.

"Oh! Right!" He nodded "He seems to have something for you" He hit her lightly with his shoulder.

"I don't know… He…" She thought for a second to dig out words to describe Kace "He's a good guy! But He's more self-obsessed" She pressed her lips folding her hands.

"Ahan!" He teased her.

"I mean come on! Imagine someone looking in your eyes and saying 'I am so blessed to have you but I am more blessed to have this perfect face of mine'" She mimicked Kace.

"No! Are you serious?" He laughed.

Her smile widened as she saw him laughing, she took a sigh of relief, she's been worried about him lately, mostly because he was upset all the time.

After midnight Brigid arrived but without Kace, she was covered in blood.

"What happened?" Maverick reached her.

"It's not mine!" Brigid was frightened "Kace got attacked and your scouts were killed!"

Before Emric could get out, Kace got in and fell on the ground.

Emric checked his breath to make sure if he was alive, luckily he was. They took Kace to treat him "Why can't he heal?" Jayden asked.

"There must have been some reason!" Emric was lost in thought, that night they couldn't talk to Brigid, she was still a little shaken since the incident, and was also tired.

So in the morning, they told Brigid about Jayden's dream "I won't help him you know!" She rudely turned her face away from Jayden.

After a little silence, she realized that she owe them an explanation so she glanced at Maverick "You know you were sent by nature! That's why I help you and only you!" She looked at all of them except for Jayden.

"He's not like us but he is pretty much like us!" Swan got close to her "He's the one with the green eyes!" She insisted, when Jayden couldn't help but to think about what having green eyes actually mean.

"You are lying!" Brigid slowly turned her face toward Swan.

"I can prove it to you!" She sat straight on her knees in front of her "I have connected myself to him look in my eyes" She said as her eyes glowed green.

"This can't be!" Brigid gasped, She was looking at Jayden with an open mouth, Jayden stared down at the floor, he didn't even know what they were talking about.

Brigid agreed to help him she sat with both Jayden and Swan and they held each other's hands.

His dream replayed and this time Swan and Brigid could see it too.

Afterward, Brigid pulled her hand back from theirs.

"What does it mean?" Swan had tears in her eyes.

"It means that what happened last night was just a sneak peek" Brigid seemed disturbed, she was staring at the ground without blinking.

"What is it?" Jayden asked Swan when they were heading toward the other end of the bricked path.

Swan was quiet, she didn't answer him she was just walking.

He didn't ask her again because he remembered the vision of Emric's dead body.

The path they were following goes all the way down toward something that looks like a big establishment, but inside walls and roof, there were partitions with walls with pointy edges at the top. And big arches where you can enter a partition, but the strange thing was, there were no doors that could cover those arches.

"This is a sanatorium, our sanatorium!" Swan noticed Jayden had questions in his mind.

Right after they saw Emric coming their way "You've got to listen to this!" He grabbed Jayden with his arm and took him to one of those partitions in the far left corner.

Kace was resting on a bed, upon getting close Kace first turned his face toward Emric to seek approval.

When he nodded he opened his mouth but he failed to speak.

"Show me!" Swan stepped forward and placed both of her hands with two of her smallest fingers on each side near his ear and her thumbs above his eyebrows, she felt as if an electric wave ran across her body.

Everything that happened in front of Kace's eyes, started happening in front of her.

When Kace was coming back with Brigid, a shadow made them stop by the graveyard. He peeked from behind the tree and saw Hawkbone slowly getting inside and then walking to a grave, he was carrying a knife, he slit his wrist and dripped blood on the ground, or at least this is what it looked like, because the lower half of the vision was so dark that couldn't be seen.