While trying to guess how far down the rhythm she felt was, Sylvie looked up and spotted a skull with a set of four pronounced fangs embedded within. Conflicting emotions rifled through the elder vampire as she struggled with the vision insisting on her to touch the skull versus her willpower not to do so. Exactly like her prior visions, Sylvie immediately watched as a shadow descended across the skull and doused it in bck. Instinctively Sylvie gnced up and spotted her internal darkness, his eyes white diamonds of furious hate. “Kigatilik?” She asked and slowly stood in pce, waiting for the dark demon to do something. “No eclipse. So you created this reality. One you hope to see.” Sylvie’s eyes shifted to new moons, “I always knew you would try to scare and control me one day. No darkness…or shadewraith is ever peaceful.” She turned her back and closed her eyes, “False vision on Halloween, nice trick.” She sighed and then sat down to meditate. “I refuse to engage…” She cleared her mind and waited for the vision to pass.
“Taini.” Kigatilik's whisper was barely audible and yet insidious. “Think about why the eclipse isn’t here, or is it? Maybe you just can’t see it.” Kigatilik ughed. “Archanos Enas was right, fear is enlightening. Yours particurly so.” Watching as Sylvie kept herself in pce, it was her doubt and fear Kigatilik felt in sporadic waves. “You betray yourself, this is so glorious.”
A chill. Freezing. One icy touch shook Sylvie out of her desperate attempt to leave the vision she was in. Unable to ignore the feeling any longer, Sylvie peeked open her eyes and saw a smoky six-fingered hand resting on her shoulder. “You aren’t really touching me, no shadewraith denies themselves the pleasure. If you could have…you would have taken me.”
“Not my intention, Taini.” Kigatilik offered, “Enas promises quite a bit. Chaos, mayhem, pain and suffering. Freedom to take what we want without any remorse. Everything that we could ever wish for.” Dark and foreboding, the shadewraith lifted Sylvie to her feet without much of a thought and held her by the chin, as though it were about to plunge into her throat. “Nothing would please me more than to consume you whole and watch your spirit suffer as I sapped you over the next thousand years.” Kigatilik seethed yet maintained control. “Enas is the eldest and most savvy, the others…all of the others…” It growled and pulled Sylvie so she could see its hot diamond eyes. “An illusion. She controls the others through their willingness to think they are freed from their host.” It tilted its murderous bck head and revealed a row of silver teeth, “Chains are chains. Chained to a vampire, or chained to Enas. One is just a little longer than the other.”
Without warning, a twisted scaled tongue dripping with a mud-like saliva licked Sylvie from chin to nose, leaving a horrific stench of rotting leaves and flesh behind. Originally repulsed by what she sensed, Sylvie blinked her waxing moon eyes at her demon. Like flipping a light switch Sylvie turned off her sense of smell, and took a neutral breath in order to maintain her control and to speak. “You haven’t spoken to me in over two-hundred years. Now you decide to open that foul mouth and to leave some slime on me?” Sylvie wiped her face clear and blinked into her ghost form for a second in order to be freed of Kigatilik’s grip on her. “Why now? Why the deceptive vision that you knew I wouldn’t believe?”
“Simply put, this is what I will become.” Kigatilik snarled, “Unlike many other dark-demon forms, I want to torture just one person.” It ughed maniacally, “Just you. I want to twist you into knots at your weakest. Tempt you into falling into the night forever.” Kigatilik floated into the air and spread into nothing but arms and cws. “Others don’t see the illusion for what it is. Enas. You’ve seen it, they get power and she consumes them at her will.”
“Good riddance.” Sylvie snapped and crossed her arms. “You want me to take pity on you? Just so you can continue to torture me like you are doing right now?” Sylvie ughed, “I knew you were demented, but I didn’t think you were stupid. Why would I care if you were fed to Enas?” Sylvie faked a ugh and felt the vision switch in tone enough that she now controlled it. “My existence would be lovely without having to look for an eclipse with every vision. So if you perish, so be it.”
Swiftly the dark blot picked up the vampire skull that Sylvie resisted. “You know who this is. What’s more, is that you know it was my doing.” Kigatilik tossed the skull back on the pile like a useless piece of garbage. “You do know that almost every lie contains some truth.” Separating its head into thirteen parts, multiple eyes and hands looked and reached in all directions. “The machine fails, Taini. The portal gets buried deep after the destruction. All according to Enas’s pn.” Reforming itself, Kigatilik settled down beside Sylvie. “It is a lie and a truth, or another way to look at it is…”
“A warning.” Sylvie frowned and took a step back from her inner darkness's manifestation. “That is why there isn’t an eclipse.” She looked around at the empty ndscape. “This vision isn’t necessarily true because this is one possible future, not the absolute future.”
With a gleeful and hateful scream, Kigatilik drove itself into Sylvie’s body.
“Sylvie, Sylvie…Oh fuck.” Casey lightly spped her lover’s cheeks in an effort to wake her up. “Come on babe, the blood use…wake your lovely ass up.” Casey desperately begged, yet had her lover tucked into her chest. “I really need fucking warning for this, if I wasn’t dead…” She paused and ughed, “...you’d give me a heart attack.”
Groaning as she reopened her eyes and felt her third eye close, Sylvie reached out and held Casey’s hand tightly. “Blood…” She begged and began to shake. “I have..” Still reeling from the vision and its depth of importance Sylvie didn’t register that Casey had unzipped one of the saddlebags and pced a bag of blood in her hand. “No eclipse, dead…” Sylvie mumbled as she squirmed.
Once she was convinced that Sylvie wasn’t going to drop the blood on the ground, Casey pulled her partner’s helm off and dropped it on the ground. “Come on, drink, sweetheart. You’ve been out here twitching so long that Kody has caught up to us.” Casey dropped her fangs into pce and plucked the stopper from the bag and lifted it to Sylvie’s mouth. “It will calm you.” Right after Sylvie finally started pulling blood from the container Casey waved and Kody came running over.
“What’s going on? I thought you two would have the element by now.” Kody noticed Sylvie drinking in a near panic. “She had a vision didn’t she?” With an affirmation from Casey, Kody’s power button glow turned gray, “This makes things worse, Casey. She won’t be able to ride and we’ve lost the time advantage.”
“Yes, I am well aware of that Kody.” Casey kissed Sylvie’s blue locks and then looked back at Kody. “So far as I understand there was no eclipse of all things.”
