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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">THE NEXT MORNING Paige woke up with men
talking to each other in an unfamiliar language. It started in moderate
undertones then slowly progressed into an argument. She turned over onto her
back to listen and try and make out what they were saying. With no luck in
analysing the language she got up, rolled up her sleeping bag and dug out
something to eat and drink from her backpack. As she made her way to the pool
to wash her face, brush her teeth and hair she noticed the men standing around
the still paralysed creature. Seeing the commander their eyes met, which
instantly made her cheeks flush with embarrassment remembering their kiss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trying to ignore him and the men she bent
over the pool and scooped its cool water over her face, it was much colder than
what she remembered from yesterday when she waded in, in fact it was ice cold.
This shocked her, no wonder hyperthermia set in, but how was the commander able
to dive into it and wash himself off last night? These questions made her look
over to the men again, still arguing in a foreign language. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Looking back at the creature she noticed its
wounds had healed, but then something strange caught her eye. Something she did
not take note of when it revealed itself to her. <span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">How did she know it was a male? Dropping her toiletries,
she walked directly over to the creature and scanned its lifeless, naked body.
It wasn’t genderless; it had a skin like armor covering its reproductive
organs. The skin armor looked hard to the touch, she wondered how did the stake
penetrate his skin? </span>All these questions raced through her brain as she
bent down next to the creature and noticed it red sunken eyes were watching
her, pleading and angry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Oh my god, how is this possible?” She
whispered to herself. The men behind her fell silent not realizing she was
behind them studying the Grigori a little too closely. In fact, that was what
they were arguing about, Corvan wanted her taken home, Alex thinks she would
come in handy and she already knows too much to let her go, Neal wanted to get
the Grigori moved back to safety and AJ wanted to find the other creature first
before they leave the caves. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Paige don’t touch it,” Corvan summoned
too late. Paige had placed her hand on its arm to feel the skin like armor. She
looked up with a sense of knowledge, it wasn’t a memory but something she knew
had resurfaced. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“I know what this is. It’s not a
gargoyle, or half man half dragon, as you explained.” Paige stood up looking at
the men. Alex smiled not believing she could know what it was.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“So what do you think it is then?” Alex
asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“It’s one of the fallen angles.” Paige
replied in the same language they spoke earlier. Her tongue wrapped around the
words as if she spoke it all her life, not believing her own ears she covered
her mouth with her hands and started to laugh at the possibility and the
ability to do this. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Great, no mortal is supposed to be
able to do that.” Neal said angrily “Nor are they supposed to know about this,
how are we going to contain this?” He added as he paced back and forth
frustrated and angry at the idea Paige may have to be contained or worse. He
started to like her, as a matter of fact he liked her a lot even though she was
a human. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Wait a minute, what do you mean by
mortal and contain what exactly?” Paige asked coming closer to the circle of
men.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Great now you’ve tweaked her
interest.” Alex stated wanting to shut the young recruit up. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“I should have stopped you from joining
us, but I’ll have to take full responsibility for what I’m about to tell you.”
Corvan advised. “Here, sit.” He asked and got his men to sit back down around
the fire and have Paige join them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“You’re correct in saying it’s a fallen
angel, one of four. They are known as watches, the Grigori, they came down from
heaven to corrupted mankind. If they are not contained, humans will become annoyed,
evil and war will erupt and finally apocalypse will be unleashed.” Corvan
explained.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“One escaped our facility and came here
to feed, regain its strength and reintroduce itself to mankind.” Alex added.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“We were expecting just one had
awakened, but according to you we have two and we will need to get to their lair
before they are joined by the others. They stronger in numbers.” Neal advised.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Paige was about to ask for more
information when she was interrupted. “Paige we know you have thousands of
questions and we don’t have the time to give you a history lesson. It may be
best we don’t give you too much information for your own safety, the less you
know the better it will be for you later, please trust me on this.” Corvan
insisted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Our main objective is to keep this Grigori
immobilised and find the others before it’s too late.” Neal said and looked
over to the creature.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Our only problem is finding them.” AJ
said despondently. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“I know where the other one is.” Paige
said confidently. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“You do?” they asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“The only problem is to get to it, like
I said, it may be in one of those pockets without air.” Paige replied.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">PAIGE TOOK OUT her satellite phone and
dialled Jen’s number relieved to hear it go to voice mail.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Hi you’ve reached Jennifer Citron
private cell, please leave a message.” Paige’s heart tightened when she heard
Jen’s voice in her ear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Hi Jen, a few men from another
organization has joined me here on a separate expedition and I’ve offered to
help them out. They have extra supplies so I will be staying for a bit longer.
So don’t worry about picking me up tomorrow, I’ll be up here for a few more
days. I’ll be in and out of cell coverage so don’t bother phoning me back,
which I know you will.” Paige took a deep breath, “Jen, I’ll be fine, really,
did I mention one of the gentlemen is really hot, I’m in good hands. I’ll call
again in a few days, love you.” Paige whispered and disconnected, knowing this
would not sit well with her, but at least it would be the only way to get a few
more days to track the female Grigori that was haunting her externally as well
as internally.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“So I’m hot?” Corvan mocked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Damn-it” Paige jumped, “do you have to
creep up on me like that?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“I wasn’t creeping, you on the other
hand are not taking note of your environment, which can kill you if you don’t
start making mental notes of where you are standing and what’s behind you at
all times,” Corvan replied looking down at Paige’s feet which happened to be
standing in some kind of animal dun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Crap” Paige said in disgust.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Exactly” Corvan laughed watching Paige
trying to wipe the dun off her boots.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Great, a little help here or are you
just going to stand their laughing at me?” Paige sneered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Yes, and enjoying every minute of it.”
Corvan chuckled. As she made her way past him, he grabbed her by the hips and
pushed her back against a large rock. She pushed against him to move on, but he
held her for a few seconds studying her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“When you said I would be the death of
you, you are right, I will be the death of you.” Corvan simply said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“What?” Paige asked finding his
statement unexpected.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Last night, when we kissed, you…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“I know what I said, but I didn’t mean
it literally.” Paige interrupted shocked. “What I don’t understand is why you
think you will?” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“I don’t think, I am dangerous and you will
need to stay away from me.” He warned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Why are you trying to scare me?” Paige
asked knowing why he was saying these things, but asked him anyway, she felt
this was his way of getting her to back off.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Good you need to be scared of me.” He
replied still holding her hips.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“You scared of committing to me
romantically.” Paige said throwing in her curveball putting her hands over his,
keeping them on her hips.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Corvan started to laugh, “Commitment is
not my issue.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“What is it then.” Paige asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Your blood.” He replied instantly
returning to a solemn face.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“My blood?” Paige repeated, now that
statement did scare her, it made her heart rate increase a little. Corvan moved
his hand from her hip up to her neck and gently glided his fingers up her
throat. This made her skin contract into goose bumps and shivers ran down her
spine into her toes. The feelings running through her had an unexpected thrill
that pooled deep inside of her most secret place, a place she did not know existed
until this very second. Shock ran through all her nerves, which reflected back
in her eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Corvan noticed her heart rate and the
goose bumps, as her blood and adrenaline throbbed through her veins, but what
he did not expect was her eyes, they brightened into the richest green he had
ever seen, this stirred up strange feelings. His chest vibrated in anticipation
to taste her and before he could keep his emotions in check, his eyeteeth
extended past his lips into sharp dangerous fangs. Paige watched as Corvan’s
features changed, his skin started to glow slightly as his eye sank into his
skull and turned into the most mysterious incandescent blue. Eyes that saved
her from suffocating, eyes that saved her many time these last couple of days.
He growled as he moved his head away from her neck and stepped back. Instead of
her running in fear, Paige slowly and gently took Corvan’s face between her
hands and calmly whispered his name.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Run, get away from me.” He growled,
not believing she stepped closer to him and held his cold face in her warm
hands. “Go, please go, now.” He shouted trying to hold himself back from
sinking his teeth into her soft warm flesh and drain every ounce of blood from
her body. The pain holding him back was excruciating, but she had no idea what
she was doing to him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Without warning Paige felt someone grab
her around the waist and with swift speed carried her away from Corvan as Neal
and AJ pushed Corvan down to the ground and held him down, as he growled and
spat with anger.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“What the hell were you thinking?” Alex
yelled at Paige as he put her back down far away from Corvan and the others.
“Why don’t you ever listen to anyone or do you want to die? He asked swearing
under his breath as he paced up and down trying to keep his emotions drawn. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“No, the commander wouldn’t -.” Paige
replied, still winded by the speed she was moved away to safety.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“The commander wouldn’t what? Kill you?
You stupid, stupid girl, you reckless and now you have put the commander into a
very precarious position.” Alex shouted uncontrollably grabbing Paige by the
arm and led her to the fire and forced her to sit on one of the rocks. “Now I
have no choice but to detain you.” He added as he took out a short piece of
rope they had used earlier from the commander’s backpack and tied her hands behind
her back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Paige wanted to stand up and run, but
Alex was too fast, he had already tied her up and silenced her with duct tape before
she could even lift herself off the rock. Alex grabbed her chin between his
thumb and pointing finger tilting her head up, he looked deep into her wide
scared eyes. “This is the only way you will be safe, the sooner we find that
nest, the sooner we can get to leave this bloody mountain.” Alex said. He took
another few seconds to study her, shook his head and made his way back to
Corvan with a flask in his hands. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">He found Neal and AJ still wrestle the
commander down to his knees, hissing and spitting with anger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“He won’t settle,” Neal swore as he held one
of the commander’s arms behind his back, while AJ had the other. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Let him go” Alex advised. Both men
looked at him surprised. “It’s an order.” He added, immediately they let the
commander’s arms go. Corvan dropped onto his hands, panting for air. As he
looked up at the Major, Alex through the flask at him, swiftly catching it, he
opened and drank the contents greedily. Once done, Corvan wiped the leftover
moisture off his lips with the back of his hand. “What happened to Paige?” He
asked concerned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“She’s safe, I had to restrain her.”
Alex advised stepping forward to help his friend back to his feet. Corvan
nodded in agreement and made his way to where Paige was sitting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Paige shuffled back on the rock trying
to get comfortable when the men returned to join her around the fire. Corvan
sat next to her making her feel very uncomfortable, what were they going to do
with her now that she knew so much? What kind of creature was he and why would
he want her blood? Paige looked over at him, finding him staring into the fire,
looking normal, or should she say human, again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Do we have to gag her?” AJ asked the
others as he sat across from Paige.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“No, but it sure is quieter.” Alex
replied making the others laugh.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Paige made moaning sounds behind the
restraint, they could not make out what she was trying to say, but her eyes
where blazing with anger, so they got the idea and so laughed even louder. This
made her madder and with all her might she used her shoulder to knock Corvan
off his rock.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Okay, okay I know you not happy about
this, but its best for all of us.” Corvan laughed as he sat back up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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IT TOOK HOURS for Paige to break
through the fever and once she did, they cautiously untied her. Finding her
body stiff and sore with all the unexplained manipulations the Grigori put her
through, she did everything at a slower pace, frustrating Corvan even more.
Paige decided to repack her backpack leaving all the tools in a neat pile,
making her pack much lighter and comfortable.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Once they found her strong enough to
keep up, they moved down the corridor that led them out the day before, until
they came to the opening in the roof leading them up to another cavity of the
cave. As the men could not jump up like they did before, to keep, what they
were a secret. AJ, being the lightest volunteered to be hoisted up into the
cavity and drop down a rope for the rest to climb up with. When it was Paige’s
turn she grabbed hold of the rope, found she did not have enough strength to
pull herself up. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Hold on to the rope, we’ll pull you
up.” Alex suggested, in no time at all she joined the men looking rather agitated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Sorry, I’m not myself today.” She
mumbled putting her backpack back on her shoulders as Alex adjusted it for her
and smiled as he walked on. She realized his smile did not reach his eyes and
wondered what had changed that had made his demeanour toward her colder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Falling into step behind Eddie bringing
up the rear, with Corvan in the lead followed by Alex, Neal and AJ, she sensed
they were going the wrong way, he felt the Grigori was behind them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Excuse me gentlemen.” Paige whispered.
They ignored her. So instead of trying again she turned around and followed her
gut, passing the gap that now acted as her floor, she carefully moved along the
opposite direction to what the men were taking. The air was getting colder with
every step. Following her instinct, she moved further away from the men until
she could not hear their footsteps behind her any longer. She was alone in the
dark, cold cave, making her way toward the deadliest creature on this planet.
An unknown species to man, but yet she knew this creature was as old as the
earth itself, it’s part of humanity, it’s part of what makes everything
tick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The air around her became thicker,
making it harder to breath normally. Taking a deep breath trying to fill her
lungs up with fresh air, air that lacked oxygen. She could feel her body slow drown,
a migraine hit her temples, she sank down onto her knees holding her throat,
she could not shout out for help, they must be far away from her by now, it
would be too late for them to find her. Paige felt she was losing
consciousness, trying very hard to keep awake; she crawled with all the effort
she could muster, trying to escape this oxygen deprived environment. This would
be her final mistake; this is where she would die. As she collapsed Paige felt
hands grab her under the arms and pick her up. The light from her flashlight
must have gone out as it was pitch black and freezing cold, she could hear her
teeth chatter, her consciousness dimmed but still gathering information. She
tried to see what carried her so she dropped her head back as it felt as heavy
as her limbs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Air, I need air, </i>her head screamed. Paige looked around to see if
there was a spec of something that would tell her where she was, or what was
carrying her, it felt as if she was flying, yet nothing made a sound to suggest
she was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With all her energy that was
left in her, she lifted her head and saw its eyes, it shone back at her, an
incandescent blue, they were beautiful, warm and mesmerizing. The last bit of
energy she had finally left her. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Finding oxygen reintroduced into her
lungs Paige gasped for air, her consciousness come back to her slowly, finding
her body lying on the hard floor facing up. There was light, turning her head
toward the source she found her flashlight lying next to her. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Seriously, this is getting old.”
Corvan voice came out of the darkness beyond. Paige shuffled her body to sit up
to find the men looking down at her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Sorry but you chose to ignore me when
I tried to tell you the creature was,” Paige looked around and realized she had
no idea where she was. “Was, um, was, behind us,” she finally said very
confused and disorientated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Look, you have got to realize you are
putting yourself and my men in danger, you walked into a pocket of carbon
dioxide, these caves are full of them, you need to understand if you don’t
stick with us, you will die.” Corvan tried to explain in a very calm voice,
even though he wanted to grab and shake her. To prevent him from doing so he
jammed his hands in his pants pockets. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Well that’s where you’ll find the
creature, it’s using those pockets to hide in.” Paige realized.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“It’s what?” Alex stepped forward and
knelt next to Paige and looked back to the others, then back to Paige. “How do
you know this?” he asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“It found me and carried me out.” She
replied.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Ah, no the co-.” Alex wanted to say
the commander saved her, but Corvan interrupted him very quickly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“She may have a point, but still you
need to get our attention before you wonder off on your own?” Corvan asked as
he offered his hand to help her up. “Agree?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Yes. I don’t mean to get into these
situations, trust me I’m normally very rash and responsible but since that
creature bit and healed me, I don’t feel myself anymore.” Paige mumbled. Then
looked up into the commander’s blue eyes, they were dark and seemed to be in
pain, the same eyes she saw in her dream, empty. Paige looked back down at
their hands; still in a grip realizing the tingle she felt came from his hand.
She looked back up in surprise as he let go and walked away. Stunned by the
feeling, the connection, she followed him. “Hold on commander, don’t tell me
you didn’t feel that.” Paige asked anxiously.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Feel what?” he turned to face her, the
look in his eyes made her swallow back what she was about to ask or was she revealing
something personal, so instead she shook her head.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Nothing. It was nothing.” She replied
and backed away, looking for her pack and put it back on. Not knowing where she
was she followed the team like a lamb to its slaughter, she had the strangest
sensations running up and down her spine, a feeling of dread was the strongest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">They walked, climbed and squeezed
through the caves tunnels and crevasses, making their way to nowhere. Finally,
she saw light reflecting off the rocks, there was natural light coming in
ahead. Then the sound of running water, could it be a waterfall? Excitement hit
her stomach as they made their way to this large underground pool, the roof of
the cave cracked open to the sky. Rain was pouring in and hit the pool below, Stalactites
dropped off the ceiling and Stalagmites raised up from the floor, some
connecting making pillars others would still take millions of years to do so.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Paige’s mouth hung open with awe. It
was beautiful as she stood looking at the wonder, the rain stopped and sun
filtered into the cave, revealing the green algae and ferns covering most of the
caves walls. The water of the pool cascaded its reflection onto the ceiling as
water dropped into the pool causing a rippling effect. Paige was in a dream
interrupted by a sudden yell from Eddie.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Commander.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The men made their way to where Eddie
knelt. Paige looked over her shoulder to watch the men huddle around some luminous
jelly like substance pooling on the floor. Not going over to join them she
walked closer to the pool of water and looked down at her reflection. Relieved
to see herself in cargo pants and t-shirt, her eyes where sunken and dark with
fatigue. The pool rippled by another drop of water and her reflection changed
into the creature. It had pitch black wavy hair, red glowing eyes and luminous
skin; it wasn’t the female that attacked her earlier, but a male. He now looked
back at her, his red glowing eyes, changed slowly into a deep aquamarine blue,
gentle and knowing. His skin still luminous like a glowing angle, his wings
rippled with the waves as if he was flying underwater. Paige could not move or
make a sound; her attention was focused on this beautiful creature. This wasn’t
a monster at all; it had a sense of peace, grace and a strange agility in its
form. The smell of sulphur filled the air around her, it tickled her nose and
made her eyes water. It compelled her to join him in the pool, not giving it
another thought; she slowly waded in, finding the water quite pleasant as she
walked into the pools depth. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Quietly it
lapped her in deeper and deeper, until she was fully submerged. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paige could see the creature clearly through
the water as she sank deeper into the pools depths. It came closer to her, an arm’s
length away. Was this real, or is it just an image placed in her head by the
female that bit her. She reached out slowly and to her surprise she touched the
creature’s solid chest, he smiled. Paige smiled back. The surreal moment
disappeared as the creature lifted his wings above his head and with one powerful
thrust, swooped out of the water. As he left the pool the current pushed Paige
back out onto the pools banks where she lay coughing out water she accidently
swallowed. A little dazed she heard the men behind her shout out orders as the
creature flew above them, spitting out fire. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paige felt the warmth of it as the creature
dipped and aimed its deathly flame toward the men, now scattering for shelter,
behind her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Corvan shouted out for Paige to take
cover as he dove behind a large bolder taking cover from the creature, just as
it spat out a bolt of fire at him. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few
moments ago he was taking samples of the luminous jelly, the next he noticed
Paige had disappeared and just as panic set in a mass of water gushed up from
the pool revealing the Grigori aiming its anger at them. The same second it
took him to take cover, he noticed Paige washed up onto the bank of the pool,
disorientated and soaking wet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The Grigori now focused its attention on
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way. Corvan and Neal both released their arrows into the creature, hitting one
of the wings and the other in its shoulder, causing the creature to spiral down
to the ground. Before it hit the earth it released another bolt of fire towards
Eddie, hitting him squarely in the chest. It took another couple of seconds to
incinerate him into ashes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Paige screamed as she watched him fall
to his knees and die. As the scream echoed against the cave walls, Corvan
released another arrow hitting the Grigori in the chest, and sprinted over to
Paige, picking her up and tossing her over his shoulder with his free arm. It
happened with such speed and agility she hadn’t realised what happened, until
she was dropped face down to the ground with Corvan’s body on top of her,
winding her slightly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">A few more arrows made their way into
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around her. She found Alex and Neal shooting arrows at the creature with
incredible speed, as AJ stumbled to safety.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Paige felt Corvan adjust his body over
hers, trying to keep his weight off her but yet keeping her covered. Finding
his cheek touching hers, he felt cold. Tears blinded her slightly as she
watched the creature pull the arrows out of its body and spitting bolts of fire
at Alex and Neal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Corvan realized this would be a good
time to stake the creature, but this meant he had to leave Paige vulnerable.
Slowly he lifted himself off her, as he did so he whispered, “when I lift
myself off you, you dash for the bolder to our right, understand?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Where you going?” Paige asked shocked
that he was going to leave her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Do what I ask, please Paige” Corvan
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Don’t leave me.” Paige cried out as he
lifted himself off her. Without a word he scooped up his backpack and grabbed a
couple of stakes and with blinding speed collided head on with the Grigori
pinning the stakes into its chest, hitting its heart and paralyzing it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">As Corvan leaped off Paige, it took all
her strength to get up and dive in behind a large rock that would protect her
from the creature’s flame. She heard Corvan yell as he made his way toward the
creature. Paige curled into a ball and held her ears closed with her hands and
squeezed her eyes tightly shut as the creature gurgled with pain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Silence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Nothing moved or made a sound. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Alex, Neal and AJ where the first to
move out from behind the rocks and made their way toward the Grigori.
Cautiously they lifted the creature off Corvan who was pinned beneath it,
covered in blood. Without a word Alex reached out and gave Corvan a hand up and
tapped him on the shoulder, Corvan nodded in acknowledgment and made his way to
where Paige was lying.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Finding her curled up and unaware that
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her ear. She opened her eyes to find Corvan kneeling next to her covered in
blood. She sobbed as she flung her arms around his neck and held on tightly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Hush, it’s okay,” he whispered as he
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scent of adrenalin coming from her skin. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Paige held on a little longer then
moved back a little to see his face. He was covered with blood and dirt, which
concerned her. She held his face in her hands and stared into his eyes, not
seeing pain she sighed with relief and moved her fingers through his hair. She
smiled slightly to find him unharmed, but then remembered Eddie.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Eddie,” she gasped and started to
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“I’m sorry you had to witness that.”
Corvan said and wiped the tears off her cheek. “Will you be okay?” he then
asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Paige nodded her head and swallowed as
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Commander, we need to secure the Grigori.”
Alex advised, bringing Corvan back to reality. Pushing Paige away from him, he
stood up and moved over to where the creature lay paralyzed and bleeding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He knelt down next to it and removed the
arrows that were still pinned in its arms, legs and torso, but left the wooden
stake wedged in its heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Paige was stunned by Corvan’s sudden
coldness, but understood the situation needed to be addressed and so got up and
followed the men. The Grigori was badly injured; its beautiful incandescent
skin was now dull, grey and covered with black blood, its eyes red and sunken
back into its skull, its wings torn at places and a large wooden stake stuck
out of its chest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Is it dead?” Paige asked finding her
body getting colder the closer she got to the Grigori.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“No,” Corvan replied as he was
attending to the creature. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“You need to get out of those wet
cloths before you catch your death.” Alex said with concern as he found her
looking down at them shaking and lips turning blue. Stepping over the Grigori
he asked AJ to get a fire started as he made his way to find Paige’s backpack. Searching
the cave he finally found it and handed it over to her. Taking it she sat down
behind a rock to undress, but found her fingers numb unable to open the clasps.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Here let me help you,” Alex said
gently and helped by taking out some zip lock plastic bags that contained
fresh, dry clothing and handed them over to her. Paige thanked him as he moved
back to help the commander. She shook so violently she could not make out if
she was shaking due to the cold or shock, either way she needed to get warm and
get her blood circulating again. Taking the bags from Alex she ripped them open
with her teeth and lay them down on a rock, then tried to get the wet clothing
off her body with no success. Her clothing stuck to her like glue and her
joints did not want to flex the way they should to remove them. Defeated and
angry with herself she put her face in her hands and cried out with
frustration.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“I’ve got this.” Corvan advised the men
and moved over to where Paige was sitting. “Do you need help?” he asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Paige looked at Corvan in defeat, her
lips blue and her chin shaking as she tried to hold back her emotions. She did
not answer him; she did not need to; he knew she was about to lose control. So
he grabbed hold of her wet t-shirt and tore it off her. Paige was shocked by
the sudden action Corvan took to strip her from her wet top, what was he going
to do with her pants and underwear? She crossed her breasts with her arms and
shook as he knelt in front of her. Picking up her right leg he untied her
bootlaces and pulled it off followed by her sock and did the same with the
left. He then undone her cargo pants button and zipper, pushed her back down on
the ground and pulled her pants off. Paige yelped by the sudden and effortless
motion it took him to undress her. She lay quietly in front of him with just
her underwear on, shaking and skin turning blue with cold. He knew he had to
work quickly to get her dressed and warm, he had no time in admiring her
beauty. He turned her over and unclasped her bra and ripped her panties off,
knowing she would rather show off her butt, then her bare breasts and private
parts. It happened so swiftly she had no time to register what was happening.
The next thing she remembered was been manhandle into clean, dry panties and cargo
pants. Corvan then lifted her up to a sitting position, she still held onto her
wet bra covered breasts when he handed her a camisole and t- shirt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Will you manage to put these on?” he asked
coldly. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Before she could stop herself, Paige
shook her head. Was she testing him or was it the tingling sensation she felt
when he touched her? She wasn’t sure. Paige looked up at him still shaking violently,
her teeth chattering she let go of her wet bra and lifted her arms to allow him
to slip the dry camisole over her, he did so without taking his eyes off her
face. They stared into each other’s eyes as he did the same with the t-shit,
but this time he tugged the fabric down hard to her hips. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“I-I’m c-c-cold” she stuttered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Corvan stood up and looked over the
large rock, to find his men had made a fire and secured the Grigori. Lifting
Paige up he started to rub her arms, he was about to embrace her to rub her
back when she lifted her palms against his chest, to prevent her from sticking
to the blood socked shirt he was still wearing. Realizing this he let her go,
took off his holster and socked shirt, then started untying his belt and pants
when he called out to Neal to through his backpack to him, which he did without
any hesitation. Corvan grabbed a t-shirt out of it, but before he had a chance
to put it on, Paige’s eyes began to roll back and started to sink to her knees.
With his t-shirt in one hand he grabbed hold of her and lifted her into his
arms.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Move back, she needs to get warm.”
Corvan ordered as he made his way to the fire. He barked out orders for the men
to get her sleeping bag and backpack, he held onto her until it was put into
place. He lay her down onto it and called out her name, no response. He checked
her breathing, which was shallow and uneven so he tilted her head back slightly
opening up her airway and started to rub her arms and legs. He asked Alex to retrieve
warmer clothing from her pack and the others to find more firewood, which they
did. Finding her rain jacket, and extra pair of socks he helped Corvan put them
on and tucked her into the sleeping bag. Corvan then slid Paige onto his lap
and sat as close to the fire as possible and started to rub her body and
checking her vitals periodically. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Paige was watching the scene from
above, through foggy, diluted eyes. She could see how Corvan and his men scurried
around trying to make her warm and comfortable. She now lay in Corvan’s arms,
still shirtless and looking rather concerned. She then looked over to the
creature that lay a few metres away, paralysed and injured, her heart tightened
in her chest, with sorrow and anger. She had to help him, but this was not the
time to do it, she had time to make this right. Paige found herself move down a
dark passage until it was pitch, she could not see where she was going.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“No stay,” Paige moaned. Corvan looked
down to see color coming back to her face, lips no longer blue and her eyes started
moving from side to side under her lids, indicating she was restless. He
touched her face and whispered her name to wake her gently, which did not
happen. She jolted awake and stared straight into Corvan’s eyes, without
blinking she said;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“She was here, looking down on us.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Who?” Corvan asked not understanding
whom she was referring to. Alex grabbed his weapon knowing exactly what she
meant, as he did so he indicated to the others to do the same. Using hand
signals he indicated to the others to get ready for cover. Corvan looked over
to Alex then back down to Paige, who was still staring at him with dilated
eyes, indicating she was possessed again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Paige?” he whispered hoping to get her
back. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">She smiled back at him, lifting her
hand to his cheek, she felt much warmer. He watched her as she circled her
fingers lightly around his ear as she snuggled up to his neck and took in a
deep breath. Licking her lips slowly she moved up, pushing the sleeping bag
down, not getting off Corvan’s lap she slowly climbed out of the covers and
saddled his legs, keeping her hands on his shoulders and rested her forehead to
his. She moaned seductively rubbing her nose against his. He stopped her going
any further with her game by taking her head in his hands and moved her face
away from his. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As soon as he focused on
Paige’s eyes he found they were her own, he could no longer hold his own sexual
frustrations back. Grabbing her hair in a ruff ponytail in one hand and
supporting her back with the other, he kissed her not so gently on her lips. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paige felt his passion and greed as she kissed
him back. The hunger for him was finally released, as she tasted him. She grabbed
the back of his neck and head and clamped her legs around his waist as their
tongues danced; it tasted so good and so right.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Paige moved her hand down Corvan’s back,
finding his skin cold under her palm, not getting enough of him, she held him
tight as she broke away from his lips for air, panting, wanting she nibbled
along his jaw to his ear, he did the same.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“You will be the death of me” she
whispered in his ear and then moved to look back at him, he was about to say
something, but she stopped him by putting her finger on his lips, then replaced
it with a gentle kiss and slowly moved off his lap and stood up. She turned to
find the men looking back at her, enjoying the scene a bit too much. Shaking
her head she picked up her pack and sleeping bag and then moved to where her
damp clothing lay. All the while the men looked back at her stunned at her
coolness after the passion she displayed a few moments ago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Finding the staring and the airy stillness
unnerving she stopped at what she was doing and looked back at them. “If you
want me to apologies for my behaviour you will be waiting for a very long
time.” Paige stated tilting he head waiting for an argument to unfold. To her
surprise they all shook their heads and returned to the fire and sat watching
Corvan clumsily trying to put his shirt on. He was not himself after that kiss;
he still felt her on his skin and tasted her in his mouth. He looked over at
her shaking out her damp clothing and laying them out to dry a bit more before
she packed them back into her backpack.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Frustrated he decided to take a dip in
the pool, so instead of manipulating his t-shirt on, he flung it to one side
and undressed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">She found it best to stay busy and not
think of what had just transpired between her and the commander. It took a
while for her heart and breathing to settle down to an easy rhythm. Then she
heard a splash behind her, turning toward the sound, she found Corvan come back
up to the surface and wash the dry blood off his hair and skin. She found it
hard not to stare at him, but she was weak when it came to looking at his slim,
hard body that was covered with the most intriguing tattoos. When their eyes
met she quickly looked away and got back to being busy. She found it hard and
awkward to be in the same space as him, so she moved back behind a large rock
and settled down for the night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Cameohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03186416939667170469noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6079465517553494055.post-5347825266111985332016-09-25T07:00:00.000-07:002016-09-25T07:00:16.092-07:00GOLDEN EYRIE VAMPIRES - CHAPTER FIVE - Possession<h1>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span>PAIGE DRIFTED IN and out of sleep, when
she slept she dreamt of murky places, it was as if she was looking though water
and when she woke, she found the men sitting watching over her. Angry with
herself for not healing quick enough, Paige tried to sit up, she realized she
would not be able to go after and trek that monster alone after all. Her
strategy will have to change to allow her to join the commander and his men on
their mission.</div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Finding Paige wake and finally trying
to sit up, Alex moved over to assist her before Corvan had the chance to do so.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“How do you feel?” Alex asked with a
concerned look in his eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“I must have a fever as I keep on hallucinating,
seeing strange images in my head.” Paige replied rubbing her eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“What kind of images?” Alex asked
curiously and looked over to Corvan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Images of strange murky places I know
I have never seen before, it’s as if I’m in someone else’s head.” Paige said shivering
as she pulled up her sleeping bag under her chin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Corvan got up from where he was sitting
and knelt down next to her. Taking his finger, he lifted up her chin to inspect
her throat, then gently pulled her up to a sitting position and lifted her hair
and looked over her neck and upper back not covered by her shirt only to find
goose bumps. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“What are you looking for?” Alex asked
watching the commander inspecting Paige carefully; all the while she sat very
still wondering the same thing. Corvan lifted one arm then the other, Paige
cringed in pain, finally he found what he was looking for, a bite mark.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“This.” Corvan pointed out. Alex pushed
back Paige’s T-shirt sleeve to reveal a large bruise with four puncture marks
as to where the creature teeth penetrated the skin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Oh my god, that thing bit me?” Paige
cried out, now understanding why her arm felt so stiff.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“This is not a good thing.” Alex moved
and sat back on his haunches with an unsettling look on his face.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“What will happen to her?” Neal asked
as he and the others came closer to inspect the wound and find out what this
all meant. They were put on this mission without too much information on what
they would be apprehending and returning to base. All they knew it was a source
and ancient creature from which they were created. Neal, AJ nor Eddie had ever
seen or dealt with a Grigori before.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“This complicates matters a bit.”
Corvan admitted with angst.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“A bit, what do you mean a bit?” Paige
asked feeling very nauseous.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Well what do you want to hear first,
the good, the bad or the ugly?” Corvan asked, not thinking Paige would not find
the quote funny.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Is there a good side to this?” Paige
asked instead.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Yes, and that is you won’t die, but
you will have a high fever and find the Grigori in your head amongst other
things.” Corvan explained as he put the back of his hand on Paige’s forehead to
feel her body temperature. Not that he needed to, but did it anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“The what?” Paige shrieked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“The Grigori is an ancient worrier,
half dragon, half man.” Corvan started when Alex interrupted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“It’s very similar to the mythology of
the gargoyle, the creature the church used at one time to guard their faith and
drive out people that were not worthy.” Alex explained.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Except the Grigori does not only guard
churches.” Corvan continued.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Why do I have this sickening feeling I
shouldn’t ask what else it guards?’ Paige asked buckling over, holding her
mouth closed with her hands, feeling very nauseous and dry mouthed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“We will need to tie her down.” Corvan
commanded, “I have ropes in my pack.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Paige looked up at the commander as
fear hit her stomach, “Why?” Paige choked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“It’s to protect us all, especially you.”
Alex replied trying to sound reassuring and calm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Please don’t, please don’t restrain
me.” Paige begged, tears filled her eyes as she looked up into Corvan’s eyes, she
held him in her gaze, mesmerised, controlling. Then slowly moved over to Alex
and the rest of the men, captivating them in her stare and plea. Paige knew
these feelings where not her own, but whatever was taking over her body
depressed her own emotions and functions, as if in a dream. This monster was
taking over her mind and her body and she had neither a way of warning the men nor
fight to keep it under control. It wasn’t Paige begging and staring them down,
wanting them to surrender to her plea, if it was; she would want to be tied up.
The feelings raging through her were dangerous, lustful and wanting. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Corvan could not move, he was taken
aback by her plea, the sadness and fear in her eyes reflected back into his
soul. He took pity on her. He had never felt sorry for anyone or anything
before so this feeling took hold of him. He was told he had no heart, no
feelings but Paige seemed to prove this wrong, how did she do this, he
wondered?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Alex was the first to move closer to
Paige, he took her hand finding it clammy and cold. Paige subliminal brain
screamed for him to back off, while the Grigori made her smile seductively,
inviting him closer. She tilted her head to one side and uncontrollably took
Alex’s face in her hands and gently kissed him on the lips. Instead of closing
her eyes to enjoy the moment, she looked up at Corvan to watch for his reaction.
The Grigori was playing a very dangerous game and Paige’s body was the
instrument, a weapon of choice and there was no way to stop it. Both men were
taken aback by her kiss and flirty manner, before any more harm came to her,
Corvan moved over to his pack and pulled out a rope and swiftly grabbed Paige
out of Alex’s embrace and tied her wrists together. Her eyes where glossy and
fully dilated indicating she was not herself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Paige yelled in anger and twisted her
body in an inhuman manner. Her ribs screamed in pain as she regained consciousness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“What’s happening to me?” She asked softly
as she found her wrists tied tightly and held down by Corvan and Alex. They
looked at each other not trusting the situation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“The Grigori is controlling you.”
Corvan spat out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Please stop it, it’s hurting me.”
Paige begged as her body twisted into another painful position.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Neal grabbed the knot that held Paige’s
wrists together and held it above her head. Alex cut another piece of rope off,
and tied her ankles together, while Corvan held her shoulders down. Her
strength was not her own and it took all three men to restrain her. Hoping this
may keep her still enough to not do any more harm to her body. AJ and Eddie
found a couple of wooden stakes and drove them down into the sand and tied her
arms and legs to them, stretching her out as if on a spit. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paige moaned with the pain searing through her
body, wishing for relief that did not come. Instead of crying out she found
herself laughing uncontrollably, which made her cracked ribs stab into her.
Paige tried to focus on Corvan saddling her, keeping her still. He noticed
tears run down her temples, as she gurgled for air, blood slowly started to seep
out of the corner of her mouth and nose. Her ribs dug deeper into her lungs
filling them up with blood. She was about to drown in her own blood if they did
not stop it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“She’s bleeding internally; the crack
ribs must have splinted into her lungs” Alex yelled getting Corvan’s attention.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“What, do you think I’m blind not
seeing the blood?’ Corvan shouted back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“We need to do something.” Alex roared.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Like what?” Corvan asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“She needs blood.” Neal suggested
calmly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Who’s?” Alex asked looking back at the
lieutenant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“The oldest is best.” Neal looked over
to the commander, who started to shake his head in disbelief; if he fed her
more of his blood she would feel him inside of her forever. Not like the Grigori’s
possession she is feeling now, but a deep unity that will make her feel she
belongs to him. This is not what he was planning for her, as they do not have
that kind of bond, well not yet and he was not planning to earn it like this
either. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Now, sooner than later.” Neal
interrupted the commander’s thoughts with urgency.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Alright, I’ve got this.” He yelled
back, looking down at Paige that was still wrenching beneath him with her eye
closed and her jaw clenched, “I’ve got this” he repeated in a whisper not quite
sure if he did. Biting into his wrist again he slowly forced her mouth open and
held his wrist to her lips and softly whispered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Drink.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">She did without knowing what she was
doing, she felt liquid running down her throat, slowly the pain eased and her
mind drifted off to a dark place. Was she dreaming again? Paige was not sure
what was reality and what was not, it all felt unfamiliar, but at least now she
felt no pain and she could breath.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">She was standing on a black rock above
a pool of water. Everything around her was misty except for where she was
standing. Across the pool Corvan stood, he was dressed in black leather armour
and carrying a large cutlass sword, the hilt covered his hand, what looked like,
silver wings. He looked majestic and strong, unexplained feelings of lust seared
through her veins, finally pooling in her heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She could feel his strength, his anger inside
of her, yet there was a hint of sadness and emptiness, an emptiness she so
desperately wanted to fill. He wasn’t looking at her, so she followed his gaze,
which ended up in the pool ahead of them. What reflected back was not her own
image but of a women naked with majestic wings on her back spread wide, ready
for flight, small horns peaked through her hair on her head and rapped around
her legs was a dragon tail with an arrow tip. Paige gasped at the sight, not
that she was ugly or frightening, on the contrary she looked beautiful, sexy
and very powerful. Something Paige wanted to be all her life and worked very
hard to achieve, but never had the body and the looks to achieve it. She looked
back up at Corvan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Is that me?” she asked softly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Yes,” he said looking back at her with
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">As she could not tell what he was feeling,”
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Nothing.” He replied and jumped over
the pool and landed swiftly next to her, using his free hand to pull her closer
by her hip and held her close. She could feel the leather on her bare skin, his
hand now resting on the small of her back, just above her new tail. His lips
skimmed hers gently, but did not kiss her, a kiss she desperately wanted. Paige
could not move as his grip tightened around her, the pressure around her waist
started to feel heavy, they were not standing any longer she was on her back
with Corvan saddling her holding her shoulders down. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Paige eyes fluttered open as reality
came back to her, arms and legs tied up, drenched in sweat and the taste of
blood in her mouth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Corvan noticed her eyes where back to
normal, beautiful big green eyes looked up at him, completely captivating him.
He straightened up letting go of her shoulders, but sat over her hips to make
sure she was completely recovered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Can I have some water please?” Paige
whispered finding her throat clogged with blood and dust.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Most certainly” Alex replied and
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Corvan moved off her at the same time
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“No, don’t I can still feel her, inside
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Her?” Corvan asked surprised<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Yes, the creature is female and she is
here to retrieve something, something she had lost centuries ago.” Paige said
surprised with the fact she knew this. How, was not clear to her, but she could
feel it was the reason she was here, now she had to find out why the commander
and his men were here and what their intentions were.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“You get some rest then and once your temperature
comes down we’ll untie you.” Corvan replied. Once Paige settled down into a
light sleep, which felt like forever, Corvan pulled his men aside to discuss
their plan of action.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“If Paige was bitten by a female then
we dealing with more than one” Corvan advised.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“So our mission has stepped up a
notch,” Alex added finding a sense of urgency in his voice he looked over to
Paige. The men followed his gaze and understood they do not have much time
before all humanity will be at risk.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“What are we going to do with the
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Human? You not referring to Paige as a
human, now?” Corvan asked with an edge of anger in his voice. The men picked up
on it and immediately recognized there was more to his irritation with her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Alex cleared his throat, “And I sense
there is more to her than what I first realized.” He added trying to mask the
commander vulnerability.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“She may come in handy now that she has
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">They all nodded in agreement, except
for Corvan, he feared for her and knew his feelings would get in the way of
this mission and needed to get her to safety, away from this cave, the dangers
and most of all far away from him as possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Unfortunately, the team did not agree with him, they saw the potential
in using her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Cameohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03186416939667170469noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6079465517553494055.post-37649730105903197272016-09-18T07:30:00.000-07:002016-09-25T20:07:09.643-07:00THE GOLDEN EYRIE VAMPIRES - CHAPTER FOUR - Exploration<br />
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WITHOUT A WORD she moved down deeper into the cave, adjusted her backpack on her hips and switched on the light that was attached to her hardhat.<br />
“Stop, where do you think you’re going?” Corvan asked as he stood up to get his gear together. Paige turned around finding the men coming toward her, she shook her head not believing they were actually going to join her.<br />
“We were kind enough to wait for you for two hours this morning, at least have the courtesy letting us know where you going?” Corvan asked irritated by her demeanour.<br />
Realising they could have gone off into the caves without her and broke the deal they made last night, Paige replied; “follow me then.”<br />
“I like a woman with few words.” Lieutenant Neal Samuel said grinning as he followed the feistiest woman he had ever met, deeper into the cave.<br />
The air smelt of decaying vegetation and wet soil, it felt humid, yet cold. This made Paige’s backpack stick to her shoulders and hips already. The corridor they were following started to narrow down, she remembered further down she would have to take her backpack off. This would enable her to squeeze through into a larger section beyond and this was where she found the fragments of bone. Walking single file now her light reflected the walls forming a V, the floor of the corridor narrowed down, but the ceiling was at least eight-feet wide, which made it difficult to walk and hard to balance with weight on her back. Their path made a curve to the right where her light reflected onto boulders that fell over blocking the route, leaving a very small hole they had to squeezing through, the men behind her moaned at the sight of it. As they approached, Paige took off her backpack and crouched down to shine her light down the hole the boulders made, to find the path still clear. Pushing her backpack in front of her, she gone on hands and knees and disappeared into the hole.<br />
“Do you think we’ll fit?” Alex asked Corvan as Paige moved out of sight.<br />
Corvan bent down to take a look and found the opening not long but definitely tight, the hole had a diamond shape to it so keeping their large shoulders in the middle would be best. Paige found Neal, Eddie and AJ join her first as they were smaller than the other two, they watched in anticipation for Alex and Corvan to join them. Alex came out first looking a little riled up.<br />
“Shit that was tight.” He moaned as he dusted himself off and then bent back down to see how his commander and best friend was doing. Ducking down into the hole again he grabbed hold of Corvan’s backpack and pulled it out to give him some space to manoeuvre. Hearing a bone pop Paige yelped and ran over to Alex to find the commander mangled inside the hole.<br />
“What the hell was that?” Paige panicked hearing the sound repeating in her head.<br />
Alex fell onto his knees and shifted to the entrance and grabbed hold of Corvan’s arm and pulled him out. Paige gasped to find the commanders shoulder twisted unnaturally.<br />
“What happened? Paige asked anxiously.<br />
“He had to dislocate his shoulder to squeeze through.” Alex explained as he took Corvan’s arm and manipulated it so the shoulder could pop back into place. Paige screamed at the sound it made. Corvan laughed and stood up, dusting himself off and picking up his backpack with the arm that was dislocated a few moments ago. Paige stared at him in disbelief, this upset her more than expected, she felt her body shake, nausea hit her stomach and uncontrolled tears ran down her face.<br />
The men stopped, not expecting her to react so profoundly. Corvan stepped up toward her finding her shaking and pale, he took his finger and wiped off a tear from her cheek, then smiled. “I’m okay,” he advised with a smug look in his eyes.<br />
Paige stepped back a little not believing his arrogance and without warning slapped him across his face with all the frustration she had bottled up these last twelve hours, turned and walked back to her backpack feeling a lot better. This was short lived, as she bent down to opened her pack, Corvan whisked her up to face him. He looked fearful, his eyes dark and sunken, his face pale and his jaw muscles quivered with anger. Alex stood behind him looking rather concerned, but did not intervene, he knew better, he had been friends with Corvan for centuries and knew when to stay out of his way. This was one of those times, he disliked Corvan when he was in this state, especially with a woman, but Alex trusted Corvan to snap out of it before he lost it. Corvan did, he knew his features where enough to put Paige in her place. He moved away leaving Alex to deal with her further.<br />
“You certainly not a morning person are you?” Alex asked with a stern look on his face.<br />
Paige turned away from him and bent down to her pack and retrieved her camera, a few unique looking lamps and a large bag. Still shaking, she nervously set up the lights around the perimeter she wanted to work in and unpacked the bag containing, a fold-up pic, hammer, spade, vinyl tape, tape measure, nylon string, stone chisels of various sizes, a magnifying glass, a notebook, pencil and various other little nifty gadgets needed for her mini excavation. Standing up she turned toward the men staring at her, not believing all that equipment she carried must have weighed a ton.<br />
“Stay out of my way.” She warned as she sucked in a large amount of stale air into her lungs and made her way back to her pack to retrieve her water bottle and an energy bar. What a morning she thought to herself and no she wasn’t a morning person, not until she had that wonderful cup of caffeine to render her conscious for the day, which she did not get round to making for herself this morning.<br />
Corvan stood watching Paige still riled up by her unannounced slap, it did not hurt, but it was the hate in her eyes when she did, that upset him. Corvan could not understand this feeling or connection he had for her, instead of putting it into good use he fought against it. Trying to shrug this urge to hold her, he caught his men’s attention and started to investigate the rest of the cave. They found many other corridors that led out this main cavern looking for any kind of disturbance, examining the ground and walls for clues. AJ was the first to find some kind of secretion on a rock jutting out of a corridor wall to the left of where Paige was working. She watched as they took a sample of what they found, Corvan took something out of his pack and carefully transferred what was on the rock into a container of some kind, then quickly put it back into his pack. They then as a group disappeared down the corridor, leaving Paige doing her thing.<br />
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She found some interesting fragments of newer bone scattered around, but nothing substantial or identifiable to say what animal they came from. Time was not on her side and if she did not find something today or tomorrow she knew this expedition would be for nothing. She knew funding would not be approved on a gut feeling. Her gut was telling her there was something sinister and very interesting in these caves, but she needed proof. Sitting back on her haunches she looked around where the lamps cast their light, maybe she was too hasty in speculating this area would be where she would find more bone fragments, just because she found them here over a decade before. Maybe just like all the other little pieces of bone that lay around came from a main source further away. Time was against her, animals may have disturbed this gravesite over time, she knew this, she also knew the earth moves things around over the years. Taking two lamps from their perches, one in each hand, she walked around the cavern looking for signs, for example, unexplained mounds of sand, soil disturbances and sand discoloration. Walking into the middle of the cavern she sat on her haunches again and shone the light along the sand where she found a suspicious mound of sand. If anything this is where she was going to start her dig, she smiled to herself. Before she stood up to transfer her gear over the mound she switched off the lights and sat in the dark and listened to the silence for a bit. Although silent, Paige could sense energy in the cavern, not that she could see or hear it, but she could smell and taste it. She put the lights back on and stood up quickly, making her way to her pack and retrieved her hunting knife. Paige knew she was alone but opening up her senses scared her, she felt something lurked in the darkness of the cave and knew she would feel much safer with the knife strapped to her leg. Shrugging the feeling off she got busy again by setting up her parameter, wrote down her co-ordinates, staked out a square to exact measurements and started to dig. As her pic hit the mound she smelt a slight vile stench of sulphur, she stopped and sniffed the air, it did not come from the mound as she first thought, it was coming form the corridor the men disappeared into hours before. Where were they, what took them so long? Time eluded her and senses fogged, as she worked in the dark. She stood up again and called out the men’s names, no answer. Paige looked at her watch it was past lunchtime, which subconsciously made her stomach growl, it was quite loud as it echo into the silence of the cave.<br />
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CORVAN AND HIS men made their way down the corridor finding traces of a gel like substance they suspect the Grigori left. They could smell it, trekking down the passage there senses heightened, moving slowly not to make a sound as they moved along until there flashlights hit a solid wall. The passage stopped abruptly, nowhere to go but back, until a drop of water fell on Alex’s head. He looked up and found an opening above them. He tapped the commander on his shoulder and pointed up, following the major’s finger; he found a hole in the roof big enough to climb through. Alex passed his backpack to AJ and adjusted his crossbow across his chest as he jumped, with vampire agility, up into the opening, loading and readying the weapon as he landed on the upper level. It was dark and quiet so he indicated for the rest of the squad to join him. AJ through up both backpacks and joined Alex, followed by the rest. Corvan was about to leap up when he heard Paige call out their names, it wasn’t in a tone that made him think she may be in danger but a feeling of dread ran up his spine, as he realized he left her behind defenceless.<br />
“What is it?’ Alex asked as he looked down at Corvan.<br />
“We left her alone without any protection.” Corvan replied looking back down the corridor.<br />
The men snickered. “You’ve got to be kidding. She may be small, but she has a big ass attitude, nothing will come close to her, besides the Grigori is up here.” Alex advised, hopping to apprehend this creature and put it back where it belongs.<br />
“Also, did you see that big ass knife to go with that attitude?” Neal added with a sly smile, which drained away as soon as they heard a deathly scream echoed down the corridor. In a flash, all the men jumped back down and ran toward the main cave, where they had left Paige working earlier. Corvan was the first to reach her; she was lying in the center of the cavern, unconscious and bleeding from a head wound.<br />
Swearing he knelt next to her limp body and dropped his backpack next to him to find water and a spare tank top to apply to her badly bleeding gash that ran from her forehead and disappeared into her hairline. Alex was the next to arrive and skidded to a halt watching the commander trying to stop the bleeding. Paige’s blood smelt rich, the aroma spread through the cave; it took a lot of effort not to drop his fangs. Corvan swallowed hard keeping his composure.<br />
He looked up at Alex, “help me here will you, we need to stop the bleeding before she loses too much.”<br />
“Sure.” Alex took the tank top from Corvan and lifted it up to see the damage; he too had to swallow to keep his cool. He looked up to the rest of the men and ordered they back away. Corvan took his canteen and gently poured the water over her forehead to wash off the blood and reveal the wound, it looked deep and nasty, whatever smashed her skull created a hairline crake along the bone. Paige moaned.<br />
Before she gained consciousness, Corvan bite into his wrist and aimed his blood over her head wound, knowing their blood would heal human ailments quickly, but with a price. He hoped this would at least heal the fracture and skin. It took a few more dropped than anticipated but finally the gash started to seal, leaving a slight pink mark.<br />
Paige felt a warm tingling sensation run along her forehead up into her head as she gained consciousness. She could sense she was in Corvan’s arms, she could feel him very close to her face; his breath was light and smelt slightly like lavender, which was soothing and peaceful. Before she opened her eyes she remembered the creature with glowing eyes, the image made her scream and lash out. Corvan held her tight against his chest to keep her from hurting herself any further, as he gently whispered, “Its okay, I’ve got you.”<br />
Paige started to cry, fear crept up her spine as he held onto the commander as her life depended on it, she needed him to make her feel safe. Paige held him tighter and sobbed as she felt his breath on her neck, whispering in her ear to calm her down. She wanted to stay like this for eternity, it felt so right, yet something deep down, an alarm bell went off, that creature was the reason he and his men where here. They did not warn her or protect her against its wrath.<br />
Paige pushed herself away from the commander’s embrace and scurried away from him to get some distance. “You fucking bastard you knew about that monster, that is why you’re here, aren’t you?” Paige yelled angrily and then cringed as her ribs sang with pain.<br />
“You need to lie still, we haven’t checked for broken bones and you may have a concussion.” Alex advised in a gentle manner hoping to settle her down.<br />
“Answer my bloody question.” She growled back.<br />
“Yes,” Corvan replied irritated at the situation.<br />
“Is that all you going to say, no explanation as to what that thing was?” Paige asked. She tried to stand up, but finding her head spin, she dropped down again.<br />
“Yes and no,” Corvan replied as Alex moved over to Paige to help her steady herself.<br />
“Ma’am we’ll explain as soon as you settle down, you have a bad knock on your head.” Alex replied as he grabbed her around her chest to keep her still, she yelped as pain seared through her.<br />
“As I suspected cracked or broken ribs, can I take a look?” Alex asked as he gently laying her back down.<br />
“I can’t believe my bloody luck.” Paige moaned through her teeth as she lay down on the soft sand of the now lit cavern. All she could remember was calling out to the men, then she remembers seeing these glowing eyes coming toward her, taking out the lights as it did. Next thing she was being flung around the cavern like a worthless toy, it made the airiest sounds as it did. Paige shivered.<br />
“I need to lift your shirt up to see what we have.” Alex warned. Paige nodded. Slowly the major pulled her shirt out from her jeans and lifted it up revealing her bruised rib cage and bra covered breasts.<br />
“Take an easy breath and hold it, it may hurt.” Alex warned. As she did what she was told, she slowly inhaled hopping nothing pricked her lungs. It did hurt, a lot. Wanting to release the air from her lungs, Alex coaxed her to hold on to it for a bit longer as he ran his fingers across each rib finding a few cracked ones. Not much can be done for cracked ribs except time to heal. That will mean taking it slow, but there was no way Paige was going to rest, now that she knew something prehistoric was actually still alive in these caves. The creature she remembered looked human, glowing eyes and large menacing teeth and wings attached to its back. Its skin took a strange glow, as if it was covered with phosphorus, the same glow the commander had coming from some of his tattoos. Paige looked up at the commander, finding him staring down at her, as Alex examined her chest. Still holding her breath, she could not tell him to put his eyes back into his skull so she looked at him with intent. He picked up on her vibe. He cleared his throat, as he turned around, a bit embarrassed at his impoliteness. He had seen woman’s breast before, but Paige had somehow allured him into wanting to hold hers, maybe even taste them, the thought of running his tongue over them made him shudder with desire. It was like a drug, he found he could not get enough of her. She had an exceptional body, strong stomach muscles, her breast filled a C-cup bra perfectly, and her skin glistened slightly with perspiration making him jealous of Alex, who was able to touch her there. He could feel his fingers go into a fist, trying to get his composure back, what was he thinking, who the hell does she think she is, driving him crazy like this. He growled.<br />
“Well it looks like you need to take it very slow the next few days, so I suggest you call for help and get you off this mountain and into bed.” Alex advised.<br />
Yes, finally we can get rid of her and carry on with catching that menace, Corvan smiled at the thought and turned around to find Paige shaking her head.<br />
“No way, I want to know what attacked me and I’m going after it, with or without your help.” She replied as she straightened up her shirt and tried to get up again, without success.<br />
“No you not, look at you, you can’t hardly get up.” Corvan pointed out.<br />
“Give me a few hours. I’ll be right at rain” she grunted as she eased back down onto her back, “or maybe in the morning.” Paige declared hoping she will be.<br />
“You going back down in the morning, whether you like it or not.” Corvan ordered.<br />
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FINDING AN APPLE and an old chart of the caves layout she made herself comfortable on her now stretched out sleeping bag. The commander watched her carefully when Paige bit into the apple to free both hands and opened some kind of map. Where the hell did she get those? Knowing these caves where out of bounds for centuries for anyone to make any kind of assessments never mind maps, the Corporation saw to that. Paige looked up to find the men rather quiet, all she could hear was her gnawing on her apple, which sounded very loud all of a sudden.<br />
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Finding them staring at her again, “What now?” she asked irritated with their presence and unnerving manner.<br />
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Putting her apple down and getting up to meet the major half way, she accepted his hand, but instead of shaking it he took her hand to his lips and kissed her knuckles gently.<br />
“Major Alexander Robson, but call me Alex, at your service ma’am.” Alex smiled.<br />
“Paige Thornton,” Paige greeted taken aback by his manner.<br />
“So Miss Thornton, this as you may not know is Commander Corvan Steel,” Alex introduced and was acknowledged by just a nod. “This is Lieutenant Neal Samuels.” <br />
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Neal walked forward and politely shook Paige’s hand, the same gesture was made by Corporal Edward Smyth, known as Eddie and Corporal Arnold Jenkins, known as AJ. Once all formalities where taken care of, Paige asked them to use her name and not Mrs. Thornton as it reminded her of her ex. They laughed and agreed. About to settle down again Alex and Neal joined her at the fire and suggested Eddie and AJ get more firewood, now that the rain had stopped.<br />
Paige sat back down at her map and finished her apple when she realised the three men left in the cave had made themselves comfortable around the fire and was drinking out of large flasks watching her again.<br />
“So now that you found my cave, what are you planning to do here?” Paige asked as she started to fold up her map.<br />
The Commander started shifting irritated with her question, but decided to say nothing just in case he may say something he would regret later. Instead he looked over at the Major, who replied in a very serious tone. “If we tell you, we will have to kill you.” The Major smiled. The Commander quickly looked over to Paige to see how she would react to that comment. If he had said it, he was sure she would stab that knife into his heart, but because it was the Major, she laughed.<br />
“Ditto” she replied before they asked her the same question.<br />
“Ah, so you on a secret mission too then?” The Major asked taking another sip from his flask.<br />
“Something like that.” Paige smiled slyly.<br />
“So what makes these caves yours?” The commander could not resist asking, making the Major clear his throat. Paige noticed the two men’s why of communicating. She now realised the Major and his charm would get far more information from her than the Commander, she smiled at the interaction.<br />
“Its mine because I have permission to be here.” Paige tried to say politely but failed as her mouth twisted into a sneer.<br />
“Why do you think we don’t have permission?” The commander scoffed.<br />
“Well if you had, you would have had the co-ordinates to find them, but instead you had no idea where they were.” Paige replied and stood up in frustration, looking down at the men, “Commander these caves have sensitive and historical data buried deep inside its cavities and I do not want you and your men entering these caves and upsetting or destroying evidence before I had a chance in retrieving it. I don’t know what you are after and to be honest I don’t really care, but what I do care about are these caves and the dig.” Paige advised finding her temper boiling again.<br />
The Major stood up and joined her, “Ma’am I understand your frustration and I do sympathise with you, however, our presence here is classified and very necessary.” The Major explained in an even voice.<br />
Paige looked at the three men now all standing anticipating a showdown, when she backed up a little and picked up her backpack angrily and threw it down again. “Okay, I’m not going to get into a pissing match with you, so I am willing to compromise.” She said, taking a deep breath to even her temper a little and then added, “I am willing to work with you, if you respect my space and I will respect yours. I understand you wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t necessary and I get that, but please respect my place and the ground you tread on. Deal?”<br />
The Major looked over to the Commander and the Lieutenant, they nodded. “Deal” the Major replied. Walking over to where he placed his backpack took out his bedroll, lay it out and sat on it. Using his backpack as a backrest, and settled in for the night.<br />
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As the Commander and the Lieutenant was doing the same, Eddie and AJ returned with enough wood to last two nights. Finding the men settling in, Paige packed a few logs onto the fire and settled in too. Not falling asleep straight away, she watched the reflection of the flames dance on the ceiling of the cave, as the wood crackled and the rain started to come down again, she realised she may have found herself in a very precarious situation. Darkness fell over the mountains prompting the night creatures began to waken, a couple of owls hooted in the distant trees, while Coyotes howled and yelped excitedly as they hunted. Paige snuggled up closer to the fire for protection and heat. The cave was silent, she could not hear the men at all, they did not snore or move in their sleep, in fact they were so quiet she had to use her flashlight to see if they were still there. This was the first time she had to share sleeping quarters with men without a sound coming from them, which was rather chilling.<br />
The men did not sleep, instead they watched Paige settle down and lay on her back watching the ceiling for a bit then shivered by the sounds of the night and move her bedroll closer to the fire. Finding her shine her flashlight over them, they pretending to be asleep. As Paige settled down again, Corvan watched her most of the night trying to fall asleep and finally when she did he found she did not rest easily. He had a suspicion this agreement with them sharing this cave and its secrets will reveal many other personal ones that may not be easy to explain. The first and largest secret of all was what he and his men where and what they were after, this secret may cost her, her life. Not knowing why he was so attracted to her, but he had to ensure at all cost that she would remain innocent throughout this mission and not compromise their secrets. Now how was he supposed to do this, he was not certain but he had to try. He watched as the fire gave her skin an orange glow, it gave her an aura of power and mystery that surprisingly aroused him.<br />
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WAKING UP THE next morning was just as surprising, Paige moaned and stretched as she started to wake up, stiff from sleeping on the ground, Paige gently lifted herself up to find the men dressed and ready for the day. The sun had not made its way over the mountain yet and so a thick fog hung like a heavy curtain over the caves entrance. Not concerned about the outside of the cave, Paige got up without a word and took out a can of beans and opened it, then placed it on some hot coals. While that was warming up as breakfast she took out her toothbrush and paste to brush her teeth, then brushed her hair, tied it back and then took out a deodorant stick, lifted her t-shirt and ran it under each arm. Corvan watched her every move from the corner of his eye as he made as if he was reading something. Quietly he watched and studied her as she carefully removed the hot can of beans off the fire and gently forked its contents into her mouth. Finishing it off she put the can in the same container she had her apple core the night before and put it to one side. How meticulous she was, everything had a purpose and a reason. Finally, a half an hour later, she was geared up and ready to explore the caves.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">TWO WEEKS LATER, Paige decided to take some time off and return to a place she forgot about until recently. Paige found this place quite by chance, she was young and adventurous and on one of her hikes up Edge Peak, she came across hidden caves, where she found some bones. Not knowing if they were animal or human the find was quite intriguing. She carefully removed a few fragments and took them back home with her; this discovery triggered her interest in archaeology. Paige tried to get into the caves again a few months later, but when she returned she found authorities had denied access by erecting a six-foot barbwire fence, claiming the caves dangerous, unsafe and trespasses would be persecuted. When a conservation officer found her lurking about the fence she found herself explaining the reason being there to the officer and her parents, she wasn’t about to climb over and trespass, she was just inquisitive. The incident terrified her and so kept the find in a box, until she decided to move back to where she grew up, and came across the fragments a few weeks ago when she finally decided to unpack that last box in her old hometown of Maple Ridge, Canada. Curiosity took the bones into her lab the next morning to start some tests of her own.</span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Her first stop was a colleague and friend of three years, Dr. Robyn Abraham’s laboratory. They had become good friends the day Robyn started working in the Radiocarbon Laboratory, which happened to be next to Paige’s office. Walking into the lab, Paige was welcomed immediately;</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> “Good morning Paige.” Robyn greeted from behind her microscope.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Not particularly, why, what’s up?” Robyn asked moving away from the scope and monitors to take a closer look at what Paige held in her hands.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“I have some bones here that needs dating, if you have some time?” Paige replied as she handed the box over to her friend, without letting it go. “This is a personal favour to me not the companies.” Page added.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Yesterday,” Paige grinned hopping to have it back by the end of the day.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Robyn smiled opening the box and looked at the contents, “Well, it looks like you a have very old human metatarsal fragment and a couple of phalanx of the foot here, do you have anything bigger?”</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“No, the foot fragments where the only ones I found.” Paige replied, “Once I have them dated, I’ll be able to warrant an application for a dig.”</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Leave them with me and I’ll see what I can do for you today.” Robyn replied lifting the box and its contents and started working on them.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“The report is inconclusive.” Robyn frowned.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“How can carbon dating be inconclusive?” Paige asked suspiciously.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“How is that possible?” Paige asked confused</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“That’s the point, its not. Come take a look at this.” Robyn moved her microscope over toward Paige. Bending over and adjusting the scope to focus, Paige found cells within the bone expanding and contracting as if they were breathing.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Have no clue, that’s inconclusive too.” Robyn sighed and sat back down on her lab chair. “It’s alien.”</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“As in out of space alien?” Paige started to panic.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“It could be, as it’s not in our database to relate to be earthbound. May I ask where you found them?” Robyn asked nervously.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“I can only if you promise to keep this between us for now?” Paige asked.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“I promise for now, but you will have to relay this find to Steve,” Robyn whispered.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">After long negotiations and keeping her find a secret until she found larger bone fragments, Dr. Stephan Renny used his authority with the corporation to get Paige back into those forgotten caves and revive its hidden secrets. These caves were in her own back yard and for years she watched the sun reflect its pink glow over the snow capped peaks and always wondered what if, now she had her backpack packed with a few days food, gear and on a new secret mission. </span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">JEN DROPPED PAIGE off at the west canyon parking lot of the Golden Ears Provincial Park that morning and made arrangements to pick her up a few days later. Paige hiked past Alder Flats camp, which was a few kilometres from the parking lot early that first morning and headed to the emergency shelter on the ridge below the peaks. She had to get there before nightfall otherwise she would have to set up camp in the dark, which would not be the best idea being alone with predators lurking about. Paige had packed bear mace, and her favourite hunting knife she obtained when she was camping out on a dig back in Kenya, it was large enough to scare anything away. Paige knew how to use it in case of any emergency like, chop, cut and even kill, it had come in handy many times before. Excavation of artefacts never seemed to be found in safe places, so she had to learn how to survive and this knife was her best defence.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">The backpack was heavy and very uncomfortable, so by the time Paige got to her first overnight stop she was drenched in sweat and too tied to eat. She through out her bedroll and made a fire to keep the night creatures at bay. Fire logs where provided by the B.C. Provincial Park, but knew her next stop, she would not be so lucky. Hitting the sleeping bag early she was up before the sun the next morning. Making up good time, she ate energy bars as she walked. Finding the trail she was on thinning out, as not many hikers came this way, the trail up to the peak veered left. However, the caves she was looking for took her off the beaten track, so taking a deer path turning her toward the caves came with many unwanted obstacles, this gave her the opportunity to use her big ass knife. Slamming through overgrown bush up a very steep embankment Paige broke through onto a clearing. Shrugging off her backpack and leaning it against her leg she took out a water bottle and her state of the art satellite phone. Taking a sip of the water, she was able to get her co-ordinates, to the left was the caves and right was the parks warden shelter, both less than a half a day’s hike. Wasting no time she made her way toward overgrown forest, which sheltered the cliff face, hiding the caves from sight. Picking up her backpack and hoisting it up onto her shoulders again she stopped to listen. Voices, of men arguing. Not sure which direction it was coming from she decided to move along and make her way to her destination. Hoping not to come across the men, she had no time to find out why men would be up so high, hunting season was over, so if it wasn’t park officials or other hikers then she would be in trouble, making them poachers. Taking out her mace and hunting knife that hung off her hip, she made her way back into the forest following her GPS reading on her phone toward the caves. Unexpectedly walking straight into a group of five large men dressed in unidentifiable black camouflage uniforms, hunched over their GPS unit.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Are you lost?” Paige asked startled at the discovery in finding military men up in this part of the forest. Each man had an emblem and rank marked on their sleeves.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“You!” they exclaimed in unison, recognising each other from the club, but this time the man was dressed in a uniform, a crossbow hanging over his shoulder and surrounded by four other large scary looking men with knives strapped onto their legs and crossbows in their hands. Paige was drenched in sweat, dirty, carrying mace in one hand and a large hunting knife in the other, staring back at them.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Commander, you know this lovely lady,” a man from the left asked as he passed, the commander, and made his way toward Paige. Backing up a little and raising her knife for protection, Paige cursed.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Major, I think you safer back here.” The commander said sarcastically shaking his head not believing what was standing in front of him.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Taking a deep breath Paige sidestepped, keeping her eyes on the men as she tied to move back onto the path she was taking.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“To answer your question Ma’am, yes, we may be lost.” The major replied trying to cut the tension between the beautiful woman and his superior officer.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Paige started to giggle then moved to a laugh, then finally not holding back, dropped her backpack off her shoulders and held her stomach, as she laughed so hard it hurt. Looking back at the five men through tearing eyes she noticed everyone except the Commander laughing with her.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“No bloody way,” Paige gasped not finding the situation funny anymore. They wanting to go to the same place she was heading and there was no way these military men would tread their large unskilled feet onto “her” historical site.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“What are you doing out here, alone?” the major asked.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“That’s my business,” Paige replied putting her backpack back on and adjusting it as she clipped it securely around her hips.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Well I think it has to do with these caves we looking for.” the commander challenged.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“You need permission to enter those caves, do you have that?” Paige asked slyly watching the men gathering closer to her. There was the Commander, the Major and three other large men now all standing getting a good look at this young, sassy lady being a bit rebellious and arrogant.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“We don’t need permission.” The commander announced irritated with her presence. She was the last person to see out here, although he did plan to eventually see her again, but not in these circumstances. He and his unit were on a mission that did not involve a fiery red head that will be in grave danger if she stayed up in these mountains. “You being alone out here is dangerous and suggest you go back the way you came,” the commander added.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Why would you think I couldn’t look after myself?” Paige asked.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Hold on, where do you think you’re going?” The major asked, surprised at the young woman’s boldness. </span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“I’m on a schedule and need to get to the shelter before that storm hits these mountains.” Paige replied pointing west toward the large dark grey clouds building up and blowing toward them. “And by the way your caves, they’re that way.” She added pointing the opposite direction to where she was going.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Thanks,” the major replied and turned to join his unit.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“No problem.” Paige replied smiling slyly to herself as she chopped a path toward the caves. An hour later she arrived at the barbwire fence. Unclipping and dropping the backpack off her shoulders again she found the key for the padlock that was given to her to open the gate, when she noticed a big gaping hole in the fence a few meters away. On closer inspection she realized the fence was not cut as the edges where jagged, it was as if something or someone ripped it open. Retrieving her backpack she made her way through the opening and climbed up the steep embankment towards the cliffs where the caves where. No fresh prints or disturbance were found on her way up, which was a relief. The wind was blowing harder and bringing the rain in a little faster than first anticipated. Feeling a drop here and there Paige hassled as she prepared to climb up the steep ten-foot cliff face to get to the caves. She picked, chipped and pulled herself up slowly and meticulously as the rain fell down harder making the last few meters very slippery to climb. Concentrating not to fall she finally reached the caves ledge, then began hoisting her backpack up by the rope she tied it onto. Soaked to the bone she finally made her way to the caves entrance, finding it dry and breezy. The wind gusted through it, whipping up dead leaves and sand as it howled threw the crevasse.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Walking in deeper, Paige found a small circle of rocks, in one sheltered corner of the cave. It had no charcoal or debris left in it evidencing it not been in use for a very long time. It looked like the way she remembered it except for the small circle of rocks, which must have been put together by some trespasser to make a sheltered fire pit between then and now. Putting her backpack down, untied and twisting the rope up between her hand and elbow and neatly putting it back in the bag she stored it in, all the while looking around her new surroundings. Deciding to start a fire before she got out of her wet clothing and shoes.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gathering old tree twigs and leaves lying around in the cave she neatly stacked it into a starter pile in the fire pit. Then venturing out the cave, back into the rain, where she found larger branches and pine cones. Adding them to the pile she finally got the fire started and added larger branches until it became quite a large and warming fire.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Shivering with cold Paige took out her bedroll and zip lock plastic bags containing various pieces of dry clothing, she started to undress. First taking her hiking boots and socks off and lay them close to the fire to dry, then replaced her wet pants and underwear with dry and clean ones. Finally she pulled her T-shirt and sports bra off over her head when she heard rocks grinding under someone’s feet at the entrance of the cave. She turned around to find five drenched men staring back at her with a not too happy look on their faces. Paige yelped as she hugged the wet T-shirt closer to her bare breasts.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Oh my god, what the hell are you doing here?” Paige asked nervously.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Deception does not sit very well with me, Miss Thornton.” The commander sneered, finding himself very irritated, yet drawn to the beauty of the woman standing half naked in front of him.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Oh please.” Paige scorned “you trained for all sorts of weather and circumstances, I’m sure.” She replied, shivering as she tucked the T-shirt under her armpits to make sure nothing stuck out.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Hold on a minute, how well do you know each other?” the major interrupted realising his commander knew the young ladies last name.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Not at all,” Paige replied immediately, “Although I’m curious how your commander knew my last name?” she added. The commander just shook his head not believing the situation he found himself in. They stared at each other for a bit, realizing the commander wasn’t going to reply to her questions.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Do you mind turning around so that I can finish dressing here?” Paige asked.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Go ahead, don’t mind us as we get out of these wet clothes.” The commander said and walked further into the cave and dropped his backpack and crossbow onto the ground, followed by his men. Without warning started to strip off their wet uniforms, starting with their shirts revealing black tank tops and tattoos, many interesting tattoos. Paige stared in disbelieve at their gesture and then gapped as she did not recognised any of the symbols on the commander’s arms, she thought to be some kind of ancient hieroglyphics but could not be sure. These may have meaning that disturbed, but yet fascinated her. Taken back by the way she stared at him, the commander decided to take his undressing a bit further to see how far he would get before she turned away. </span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Wow” she moaned as he pulled off his tank top revealing the most wonderful symbols she had never seen before. Not realizing she had made her way over to him and was about to touch his skin when the commander abruptly grabbed her wrist to stop her. Paige gasped not realizing she had made her way to the other side of the cave, in some kind of trance. An unexpected current ran down her arm into her gut, jolting her brain back to the moment.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">There was confusion in his eyes, “Don’t.” He said angrily.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Paige swallowed hard before she had the courage to ask, “Where did you get these?” she asked, finding her voice soft yet rattled. Unexpectedly she was quite absorbed by them, they seemed to glisten in the dark as if the tattoos where drawn with incandescent ink.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“I think you need to get to know the commander first, Ma’am,” The major laughed.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Paige looked back at the major sitting on a rock taking his boots off, and the rest of the men in various stages of undress. Embarrassed by her rudeness in starring at all the men’s naked muscular chests all ripped into different immensity and hardness, she made her way back to her corner of the cave.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">The men that surrounded her did not care or acknowledge her half naked presence so she, decided to finish dressing. Picking up the plastic bag with a clean bra and T-shirt, she ripped it open with her teeth keeping the wet T-shirt in place until she got the bra out, turned her back to the men she clipped the bra in place and then snuggled into her clean T-shirt. Turning around she found the men not minding her at all, relieved she sat on a rock closest to the fire and dragged her backpack closer to find something to eat and rearrange the content, still a bit rattled not sure if it was their presence or the commanders touch.</span></span></h1>
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Cameohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03186416939667170469noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6079465517553494055.post-62952628594418424102016-08-28T10:04:00.002-07:002016-09-24T18:50:10.022-07:00THE GOLDEN EYRIE VAMPIRES - CHAPTER ONE – Night Out<h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;">WALKING INTO A club was a very unfamiliar occurrence for Paige. Glaring at the back of her friend, Jennifer’s head, she walked in wishing she never agreed to this evenings outing. When Jen pulled up into the clubs parking lot, Paige immediately regretted in agreeing to “let loose just this once” statement. This was going to be a long stretch in making an effort to enjoy herself. Paige had never been a party kind of girl; she always dedicated her life to her career and her now ex-husband, never making time for this kind of thing.</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;">They were escorted deeper into the club, up some stairs to a VIP room, which was dark and gloomy, it had a large table surrounded by what looked like leather chairs. Paige was surprised to find a complementary bottle of champagne on ice and two glasses waiting for them. She took a seat backing up against the glass wall that overlooked the club’s dance floor and large bar. Jen took a seat across from her giving her a clear panorama view of the whole club below.</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“So what’s the occasion?” Paige asked with a raised brow, studying the waitress taking the champagne bottle out of the ice bucket. With a slight pop she uncorked it and poured the golden liquid into their glasses without messing a drop. Picking up her now filled glass, she watched the waitress replace the bottle in the ice bucket and leave. </span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Jen picked up her glass and said; “To you coming out and realizing life does not always revolve around work.”</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Paige studied Jen for a moment, thinking how she knowingly ducked her head under research and work since her husband of five years cheated on her with his assistant while on an expedition in the Andes Mountains over a year ago. She had met Trevor on a fossil exploration site in the Badlands of Alberta, fell in love, married and worked together until she realized she hadn’t been in love at all, just infatuated with him, their marriage was for convenience only. She lost herself in work and dedicated her life to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, also known as UNESCO with interest to local heritage sites in Canada and the world. After their divorce she accepted a job with Vision Archaeology Inc. in their research and collection department, doing the same thing, but the pay was way better.</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“Okay I’ll give you that, but for tonight only.” Paige declared as she touched Jen’s glass with hers and then took a sip of the bitter sweet liquid.</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“Until I get you to come out again, which will be soon I hope.” Jen replied mischievously.</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“Not promising anything.” Paige added quickly.</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“So, I’ll nag again until you do.” Jen smiled.</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“Seriously! Jen, why here?” Paige asked irritated with the music that drummed so loud she could hardly hear herself think, she turned around and looked down at the dance floor, “Could we not have gone out to a dinner and a movie instead?”</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“Why? What’s the fun in that?” Jen asked moving her torso to the beat of the music.</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Paige shrugged watching her friend enjoying the beat and finishing her drink.</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“I’m going to dance, want to join me?” Jen announced knowing Paige would not dance to this kind of music, but asked anyway stretching out her hand indicating to get up and join her.</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“No bloody way will I be going down there.” Paige replied anxiously as she turned to watch sweaty bodied rubbing against each other, she shivered.</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“Well suit yourself.” Jen sang as she left the solitude of the VIP room. Paige watched her intently as she walked down the stairs, but lost track of her as a man made his way up, distracting Paige. He was exquisitely handsome, which made Jen nearly miss a step as she passed him. He was deep in thought and did not notice the ladies staring at him as he walked from the security office of the club, where he was carefully monitoring a couple of elegant woman sitting and enjoying their complimentary champagne. One did not look like she was impressed with the idea of being there as she sat with her back to the club and had no smile in her eyes. There was something about her that intrigued him and he was going to make damn sure he would find out who she was before this crazy detail was over.</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Commander Corvan Steel, “punishment” for not complying to orders his detail was given, got him running security for the Eyrie Corporation’s newest addition. Seekers, a five star club was for higher ranking or rich individuals only. For these ladies to get a VIP room meant they, either well off or well known.</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;">As it was compulsory to have all identification scanned, he took the advantage and looked through all the images of the evening’s guests until he came across a blond and sexy, Jennifer Citron, a thirty-six year old, well-to-do, multi-million dollar Real Estate broker and her friend Paige Thornton, same age, an archaeologist for Vision Archaeology Inc. So this would mean money that got them into the VIP room.</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Paige had a small muscular frame, with chestnut brown to red curly hair and deep green eyes that stared down into his soul, the same green eyes that had been watching him make his way up the stairs to the second level where her VIP suite was situated. What she did not expect was his appearance at her suites door, with a look of superiority and a hint of anger in his eyes. He walked over to where Paige sat and looked out of the glass wall down to find her friend dancing with a younger man.</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“May I help you?” Paige asked swallowing hard as her heart skipped a few beats while this larger than life man made his way toward her and then stood looking down at the dance floor with his hands behind his back.</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Not looking over at her, he asked; “Are you lost?”</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“I beg your pardon?” Paige asked frowning to the unexpected question.</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“You heard me.” He replied.</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“Yes, I heard you, but don’t understand the question?” Paige asked standing up “I’m not sure if it was meant as a compliment or insult?” Paige added, as she stood next to the man that had a very strange manner.</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;">He was wearing black Armani dress pants, which accentuated his thigh muscles and a white cotton shirt that covered tattoos, which peaked out behind his ear and ran down his hands and fingers.</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“Why would you think that it would be either?” he asked still not looking at her.</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Paige smiled, he was toying with her and could not come up with something wise to say, his presence made her brain go to mush. This intrigued her; Paige had never experienced the loss of words before.</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“Then I must be lost. Are you here to show me the way?” she whispered.</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;">God she threw a curveball, this time he was speechless. He chuckled. “I may have to,” he replied in the godliest voice. Paige’s knees wanted to buckle, so she made it back to her chair just in time to sit.</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“Wow, is it hot in here or is it just me.” Paige moaned to herself.</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“It’s you.” He replied still watching Jen now making her way back to the VIP room, which meant his visit was over, so he turned toward Paige, bowed and strode out of the room barely missing Jen bumping into him.</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“Oops, sorry big boy,” Jen grinned and moved aside for the large six foot something hunk of a man leave the room.</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“Who the hell was that?” Jen asked as she made her way to her seat.</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I don’t know, he thinks I’m lost” Paige shrugged.</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“What? Why on earth did you not ask for his name and number?” Jen reprimanded unsatisfied.</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“Didn’t get a chance to.”</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“God, Paige, do I have to teach you everything?” Jen asked and jumped up to find the man make his way into the clubs office behind the DJ. “Well he must either run or own the place.” Jen added.</span></h1>
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July 27, 2014 - a memory came back to me today when I came across a picture of Sean Connery.<br />
A reader of Feeders told me that she imagined that Sean Connery would be a perfect Sir Robert McKay, what do you think?<br />
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When I first created Sir Robert McKay I thought of my father, Johannes Martinus Nel.<br />
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I was approached by Gidget Girl Entertainment, interested in making FEEDERS into a movie. which means I need to transform the Novel into a Screenplay (script).<br />
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Downloaded MovieDraft from Mac apps and started working on downloading novel into it. Not a great start if you worked for hours in transforming the text and then forget to save it :(<br />
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Today, I started again and this time save as I go. Much better, here's a sample of how my first draft looks like -<br />
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EXT. OPEN ROAD - DUSK<br />
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THE RAIN BEAT down onto the windscreen with such force; the wipers were working frantically to keep it clear enough for Anne to see where the road was. Pushing the speed limit a little to get home, she sat leaning forward into the steering wheel of her car with such intense concentration that every muscle in her body started to ache.<br />
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“I SHOULD HAVE LEFT EARLIER,” SHE TOLD HERSELF THROUGH GRITTED TEETH.<br />
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Just then, what she thought was a dog ran with incredible speed over the road. To avoid hitting it, Anne swerved and slammed on the brakes realizing too late, this was a mistake. The car spun out. Correcting the direction the car was taking and with pristine steering, Anne directed the car over branches of a fallen tree that lay on the side of the road. It was either over the tree and its branches or into a bog filled with muddy water. The tree would mean not getting stuck and having to get out into the rain, but unfortunately as the car sped over the branches, she heard one of the back tires burst — this meant she had to get out into the rain anyway.<br />
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“Shit, ahhhhhh shit,”<br />
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“Can’t people look after their animals?”<br />
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“Here I am on a dark deserted road”<br />
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were Elle is born as Annabelle Savoie. She finds a body washed up on the
Chateau de Savoie, France, beach. She revives and finds him to be the Sovereign
of a large coven, Lucien Vallianto a very powerful vampire. They fall in love,
marry and he takes her and her brother, Marcus Savoie back to his villa </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">on the Island of Sardegna, Italy. There Ella is
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Elle, in 1690 is reborn as Isabella Savoie, orphaned and living with her best
friend Countess Hope De La Fontaine, hands the Chateau de Savoie over to her
great uncle, Marcus Savoie. Ella goes back to the Chateau for help when Hope
goes missing. While back at the Chateau she meets the Sovereign and falls hopelessly
in love again. They get married and once again he takes her back to his villa
where Elle finds Annabelle's journal and learns of her life and her death. When
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takes place in 1921, Ella is born as Jezebel Savage a descendent of the Savoie
family. When Ella’s uncle Philip Savoie dies in America, she returns to France
to claim her inheritance, Chateau de Savoie where she meets up with Marcus
Savoie. Not believing he was the original owner of the Chateau and may be her
great-great cousin. She encounters many familiar circumstances and started to
strongly believe in the word "déjà-vu." Then the sovereign walks into
the Chateau, her world turns upside down. Finding both Annabelle and Isabella's
journals, Ella discovers a sinister plot, preventing the Sovereign turning her
as his queen. Jezebel and a few trusted friends document everything they could
to find out who may be responsible for the brides murders. Knowing the dangers,
Elle agrees to go to the villa and marry the sovereign, but this time she was
prepared to die just to find the killer. Now that everything was documented it
paved the way for her next return......this time she comes back 91 years
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Present Day, Ellouise Conway accidently fell into Marcus Savoie’s lap, quite
literally. They became good friends and found she was his reincarnated sister,
Annabelle, but this time she had some unique attributes. She works with the
coven and together they succeed in turning Ellouise as their queen, but she
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Conclusion, Elle has to trust the sovereign again, identify the murderer and
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<b><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times-BoldItalic","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-BoldItalic;">A BRIDE REBORN </span></i></b><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times-Bold","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Bold;">(ISBN</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">: </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">978-1-30419-705-4</span></b><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times-Bold","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Bold;">) available as from November 1, 2013 for $22.00 and can be ordered
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<br />Cameohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03186416939667170469noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6079465517553494055.post-51104986384580286142013-07-01T18:45:00.000-07:002013-07-01T18:45:00.232-07:00Favourite Find - JulyOOH LA LA<br />
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<br />Cameohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03186416939667170469noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6079465517553494055.post-37725923115552565062013-06-24T20:57:00.000-07:002013-06-24T20:57:36.484-07:00A Bride Reborn - new book cover<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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New book cover -<br />
I took this photo myself (proud moment)<br />
A couple of old family photo's, jewellery, my wedding veil and a porcelain figurine.<br />
What do you think?Cameohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03186416939667170469noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6079465517553494055.post-58693150045796130562013-06-01T06:00:00.000-07:002013-06-01T06:00:09.907-07:00Favourite Find - June (Happy Fathers Day)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">I read of roads never traveled, in times never lived, and persons never met. Then my imagination renders the world. . . so unique it is to see the world differently than those who never saw these books.</span>Cameohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03186416939667170469noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6079465517553494055.post-37705792504768264102013-05-01T06:00:00.000-07:002013-05-01T06:00:05.438-07:00Favourite Finds - May (Mothers Day)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Vampire Eyes</div>
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Cameohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03186416939667170469noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6079465517553494055.post-88742794435165350652013-04-18T09:01:00.002-07:002013-04-18T09:01:13.657-07:00A Bride Reborn Update<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Finally received the last part of A BRIDE REBORN back from the editor. I'm reviewing it once more before I send it off to have it published.<br />
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Question:<br />
1. Do I save a tree and released it as a downloadable (eBook/ePub) format only?<br />
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3. Do both formats?<br />
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I'm really torn as I love to feel the book in my hands, but love to download and read from my iPad too.<br />
Its easy and convenient and it costs me less to download vs. buying a book and having it shipped out to me.<br />
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So what do like and why? Post your comments below I would appreciate you feedback....<br />
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<br />Cameohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03186416939667170469noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6079465517553494055.post-78348962124330290092013-04-15T08:20:00.000-07:002013-04-18T08:45:07.903-07:00Anniversary Surprises<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's our 24th Wedding Anniversary today and Hubby surprised me with a booking to Hawaii in October, 2013.<br />
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But the best of all he sent me a link to <a href="http://www.ncl.com/">www.ncl.com</a> with a username and password that took me to a booking on the Norwegian Jade, 11 day Mediterranean Cruise for our 25th Wedding Anniversary.<br />
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We start in Rome, Italy - April 12, 2014<br />
Florence, Italy<br />
MonteCarlo, Monaco<br />
*Provence, France (A Bride Reborn- my new novel starts here) and our 25th Wedding Anniversary<br />
Barcelone, Spain<br />
Valencia, Spain<br />
At Sea<br />
*Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (A Bride Reborn - <span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">
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Naples, Italy<br />
Back to Rome, Italy.<br />
We arrive at each Port at 8 am and depart each port at 5pm giving us the day at each stop.<br />
<br />
*A BRIDE REBORN: (spoiler)<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="line-height: 200%;">A few days later we sailed into Cagliari’s
port, we arranged carriages in Vallianto’s name finding how quickly and
efficiently everything was executed. The trip to the </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">Villa
Senza Paura</span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="line-height: 200%;"> was endless and hot, the closer we got to our destination I could feel Lucien’s
demeanour changed. The morning we were to arrive, I found Lucien’s guard was up
and with Marcus’s help, he prepared himself as if going into battle. This
scared me more than when I first realized he was a vampire. I feared losing the
one I loved more than life itself, watching him silently I had no idea how he
felt about facing his enemy. He mounted his stallion and road ahead of our carriage,
watching him ride his mount gallantly, made me proud. We entered the villa’s gates and road down the
long carriageway lined by cypress trees that led toward a large building. It was bigger than our Chateau back in France,
a whole floor higher and much wider. It was as immense as the owner himself.
The entrance was welcomed by two large lion statues on either side of a half
moon stairway leading up to a large heavy wooden double door, that had large
lion head knockers on each door. The walls where built out of the same rock
that surrounded it. Large crystal glass windows scatted evenly across, three
stories high and crowned by a terracotta tile roof. Approaching the large entry stairway we
arrived at the main doors of the villa, a few staff members came out to greet
the new arrivals with awe. Some recognised
Lucien although it was over five hundred years since they had seen him. Word must have reached Lorenzo and Lucien’s
council members very quickly as I hardly stepped out of the carriage when they
arrived at the villa’s entrance to greeted Lucien with gratitude and respect. Everyone
was talking at once so it was very difficult to understand what was said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Finally Lucien took
my hand and led me into the villa, followed by Marcus; the coolness of the
entrance hall was a relief from the scorching heat of the sun outside. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">We were escorted to the den where
refreshments where served and Lorenzo explained how they had been taking turns
throughout the centuries in trying to find Lucien. </span></span></div>
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<br />Cameohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03186416939667170469noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6079465517553494055.post-24551935004041471362013-04-01T08:18:00.000-07:002013-04-01T08:18:00.486-07:00Favourite Find - April<div style="text-align: center;">
It's our 24th Wedding Anniversary this month, so this is this months favourite find.</div>
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Glad to grow old with you, my husband because you are my inspiration, my anchor, my love and true soul mate.</div>
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