March 29, 2005
"I'm in Winnipeg, but I'll portal by your place if you need me to. What's happening?" said Sonylla while heading toward the portal area.
"Please do. Come listen to this," said Coralis. "I swear I'm holding on by a very thin thread. Everything in me screams to lash out at them, but it's game over if I do."
Sonylla didn't stop walking and tried to keep a blank face while hurrying toward the portal area.
"See, we told you. We knew you were married. If you won't talk, your husband will, I promise you that. Now. We will ask you one last time. We told you the 3rd time would be the last. If you don't answer my question, my colleague will bring him in from the next room."
"HOLY GODS FROM ABOVE! That's sick dirty mind games they're playing! I'm almost in the portal area. You overkill your wards, but I'll beg the gods and goddesses for forgiveness, I'll portal on your neighbour's rooftop."
"OPEN YOUR EYES WHEN WE TALK TO YOU!" said her guard as whipped her back.
"Thank you," said Coralis, as Sonylla felt more whip marks appearing on her back, going deeper this time. "All day, they kept telling me they had Frank, that I should answer their questions if I wanted him to stay alive, but I kept repeating myself they were lying, with my eyes closed so they couldn't see the raging anger in my eyes and how it affected me."
"Where did you bury the children you killed? How many did you sacrifice to Satan?" said Coralis' guard as Sonylla appeared on the rooftop next to their building.
Coralis stayed silent.
"HOW IN GODS WORLD DID THEY COME UP WITH THAT ONE??? I'm watching your mate walking out of your apartment with his wolf guard," said Sonylla as she activated an invisible glamour on herself and closed the portal behind her. "I don't know where they're going, but they'll have me hitching a ride with them. If I knock something while jumping down on your neighbour's front balcony, hopefully, people will blame the wind."
Sonylla voided her invisibility glamour when her feet landed by the 2nd-floor apartment door.
"I don't know what you're talking about. I don't kill children and I do not worship Satan," said Coralis, with her eyes still shut, forcing herself to stay calm, focusing on the fact that Frank was okay and far from their reach.
"GUYS! WAIT FOR ME!" said Sonylla while running down the building next door's front stairs.
"Thanks, I needed to hear that. They can do what they want to me. So long as I know for sure that Frank is well and untouched, I've got this."
Frank and Liam turned toward the voice with a puzzled expression.
"Sonylla? What are you doing here?" said Frank, standing next to the driver's door of his car while Sonylla ran to them.
"I got you, girl, no need to thank me. I know you'd do the same for Derek," said Sonylla to Coralis before answering Frank. "You don't want to know, but I'm coming with you wherever you're going."
Sonylla tried to open the back door by the passenger seat, but couldn't. Frank unlocked it and she got in the backseat. He was confused as to why Sonylla appeared seemingly out of nowhere, without letting him know she'd be there, but he figured it had something to do with Coralis. Frank looked at Liam, who was even more confused.
"I'll introduce you two in the car," said Frank as he opened his door.
Frank frowned as he looked at Sonylla after closing his car door and saw bright red marks appearing on her neck.
"You're right. I'm sure I don't want to know and that I'll regret asking you, but what's happening to my wife?" said Frank before turning his face to look at Liam. "Liam, Sonylla is very closely connected to Blue. Sonylla, Liam is my tech assistant Blue hired to protect me."
"Yes, I know about your wolf guard," said Sonylla, smiling as she looked at the two men in the front seats. "Blue is fine now. What you see isn't remotely as bad as what I heard earlier before portalling my lovely ass onto your neighbour's rooftop because she overkilled the wards around your apartment."
Frank put his left hand on the steering wheel and paused, his right hand holding the ignition key mid-air.
"Somehow, I know she's fine, or you wouldn't be here alive and kicking on my backseat, but I also know she's not, or you wouldn't be here."
"Fine. She's peachy now because she knows I have my eyes on you. These cockroaches are playing sick mind games on her as you have no idea."
Frank put his key in the ignition and paused again. He knew he should act normal and drive, but he struggled with himself. It wasn't the first time Coralis was in a position where she couldn't get home to him, but this time, it was different. This time, he truly was afraid he'd lose her, sentenced to death and executed.
"If I'm reading this room well," said Liam, looking at Sonylla, "you and Blue share a mind-link and you're saying that Blue's captors told her they had captured Frank to make her talk or to break her."
"If I'm reading this room well, I'd say you, Liam, have a mate. You know. And you, Frank, you should be driving before people think I'm here to sell you drugs."
"Boss, how I drive us to work instead?"
"Your mate is heading to work with his wolf guard. Trust, Blackquella will follow him. Hmm, think my black squirrel can summon the local squirrels to protect him?"
"Hmm Cheetah gives the creep to local cats, so I'm not sure."
"Have you tried interacting with them?" said Sonylla while Liam drove.
"The only house cats I ever interacted with were Erny and Berny, also known as Erik and Henry."
Sonylla started laughing in the back seat. Frank and Liam gave her an odd look.
A few hours later, when the day turned in Sri Lanka, Coralis considered her options.
"If they set me on fire at the stake, I'd make sure it doesn't penetrate my skin. I'd close my eyes and glamour myself to look like a pile of ashes and roll away to make it look like the wind is blowing away ashes. Then, I'd glamour myself invisible and just walk away," said Coralis to Alejandro, lying on the ground and staring at the ceiling.
"GIRL! The authorities where you're at have just announced that you and Alejandro have been sentenced to death and are to be executed on Monday at noon."