Chapter 75 - The Last Cry

I turned to Mandrake taking his face in my hands. his warmth made me smile. I was in a bubble of silence until it popped, the chaos breaking free again. Mandrakes men were pulling back, helping their own leaving the dead behind. I heard the whistle of something being thrown up into the air, I moved out the way as a heavy sword came down. The blade going right into Mandrakes shoulder. My eyes watched as the sword was pulled back again and brought down harder than before. Mandrake went down. I fell to my knees next to him my hands on the blood gushing through and out onto the ground. The blood flowed like a river, the earth was stained red, my skirt becoming drenched.

“Lilith: Mandrake whispered, choking and coughing out more blood as he lay on the ground

“Shhhh” was all I could think of in response “you’ll be okay,” I said running my bloody hands through this hair, moving it out from his face.

He smiled his teeth red