Chapter 107 METANOIA 3
107 METANOIA 3
Look into my eyes
It's where my demons hide
It's where my demons hide
Don't get too close
It's dark inside
It's where my demons hide
It's where my demons hide
-Demons; Imagine Dragons-
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Raine didn't know how to process the information as she blinked her eyes and opened her mouth, but there was nothing she could say about it.
"There are not many like us." Lucas said his expression slightly down. "Many creatures used to use our pureness for their sake."
Raine was overwhelmed, she couldn't catch up with this conversation. What was the meaning of all this? What did he mean by many creatures? There were a lot of 'creatures' that she had been seeing for the past eight years of her life, which had driven her crazy?
Her breath hitched when the idea crossed her mind. How was that possible? No, actually everything was possible.
However the real question was; where was she now? How could she get back to Torak? She wanted to meet him, badly.
She didn't feel safe here, in a place that she didn't know, people that she wasn't familiar with.
"You don't know about all of this, do you?" Lydia, who became the considerate person in the room, caught Raine's anxiousness.
Raine shifted her gaze at Lydia and shook her head in dismay.
"I wonder what kind of place this Fulbright City is. Are there many of us in Fulbright City?" Lydia asked curiously as she looked back at Raine, became impatient to hear her answer.
"I don't know…" Raine replied sheepishly.
She really didn't know if there were many guardian angels in Fulbright Village or not. She also still had a hard time discerning the sudden information shoved in her head.
Her? A guardian angel?
What was that all about?
"Oh…" Lydia's eyes slightly casted down. "Decades ago when we were still free and not being hunted, our people had roamed this realm, casting away the darkness."
"The darkness?" Raine didn't know if this conversation would turn to normal, the more they talked the more it confused her.
Lydia chuckled lightly. "Why do you think we are a guardian angel?" She gave her a rhetorical question that, honestly, Raine couldn't have known the answer to.
However, instead of answering it, Lydia jumped into another matter. "However, four decades ago, all the creatures started to hunt us, because the essence of our power could make them stronger, and as a result the darkness becomes darker." Lydia's eyes casted down. "This realm became imbalanced."
Raine totally lost it. What was the darkness? What was the guardian angel guarding? What happened to the guardian angels whose essence were sapped?
However, she was still lacking knowledge about this, and all the other information that she got, rather confused her even further.
On the other hand, seemingly, Lucas didn't catch Raine's strange behavior as he continued. "At the moment, they only see us as an instrument to strengthen their power, while the Lycanthropes simply don't like us to begin with, because our people are destined to be physically weak creatures."
Upon hearing the word of Lycanthropes, Raine perked up. "Lycan?" Her eyes shone brightly.
If it was a lycan then they would know about Torak!
However, Raine's sudden cheerful behavior was rewarded with a strange look from the three siblings' eyes. They looked at Raine as if she was saying something inappropriate.
"Why do you look so happy when you hear about Lycans?" Lydia asked, she frowned as her beautiful black eyes were assessing Raine.
"I know one Lycan." Raine said happily and sheepishly.
"Who?" Lydia asked in a sharp tone while leaning her body towards Raine, her fist on her laps tightened as if she was holding something back.
"His name is Torak." Until this point Raine was still not aware about the sudden change of the atmosphere, even the little boy stopped playing with his own hands.
Only when Raine mentioned Torak's name the three of them let out a shriek and Lydia covered her mouth to prevent her from screaming.
Raine was startled by their reaction. She didn't know why they gave her that kind of reaction.
"The second one of the Donovans… Torak Donovan?" Lucas asked Raine in a very serious tone, while Lydia was shifting in her seat uncomfortably.
Raine nodded as reply, but her eyes became wary. She felt like she had just said something wrong and couldn't be irreparable.
"I don't know how you know him, but…" Lydia was fidgeting as if she remembered something unpleasant. "You better stay away from him." She warned Raine.
The confusion was clouding the atmosphere of this living room, it was as thick as fog. Meanwhile both parties had so many questions inside their head, but didn't know where to start.
"Sometime he lost his temper, but most of the time he was so kind and caring." Raine, subconsciously stood up for him, as she reminisced how Torak had been treating her. No one had ever done what Torak did for her.
The three of them visibly grimaced by Raine's statement, and somehow this irritated her. They didn't know Torak, but why did they judge him?
"Why? Is there something wrong with that?" Raine felt uncomfortable under their eyes.
"Yes, something totally wrong." Lydia hissed when she regained her composure after her shock. "You are not supposed to have anything to do with Lycanthropes."
"But, why?" Raine clutched the hem of her sweater, something wasn't right and she knew whatever Lydia would tell her, it would surprise her with a new revelation about Torak.
"Because Lycanthropes are used to slaughtering our kind. Their kind is too strong and too haughty. They'd like to gain more power in this way that they kill us instead to prevent the other creatures from sapping our essence. So, no creature would be stronger than them." Lucas finished his sister's explanation in one bold and direct statement.
Raine was in disbelief. She couldn't accept what she heard, and shook her head vigorously. "No. he will not kill others without reason."
Yes, everything that Torak had done always had a reason behind it. He wouldn't kill only for his impulsiveness, right?
In reality, Raine wasn't sure about this either, as she remembered how easy Torak had killed his own kind the other day.