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ruler and killer
g. haron davis
The first time Chi killed for Coronet Álava was mostly accidental but
thrilling nonetheless. The only spell she’d learned from her mother, gods
rest her soul, should’ve protected the man from harm. Something must have
gone wrong, the wrong word uttered at the wrong time or some other
elementary-level mistake, because he looked up at Chi with lifeless eyes,
widened in surprise, as she siphoned his essence from his arm.
“Forgive me,” she said once she finished collecting his blood. She closed
the top on the glass jar and set it aside. His dead-eyed stare set her skin
crawling. She used her two forefingers to shut his eyelids. “May the gods
have mercy.”
The task was sustenance, and perhaps she’d thought too small, but there
seemed nothing better to sustain those like the Coronet than fresh blood.
She’d read once that they liked type O negative. It took her nearly a week to
find someone with that rarity, someone her mother would have referred to
as unmissable. Had she known that she would fail at protecting his soul
from death, she would’ve put him out of his misery to begin with. But
regrets didn’t serve anyone, and she couldn’t waste time dwelling on a life
lost if it meant her own life would be so dramatically improved because of
it.
The jars clanked in her satchel as she moved along the road back toward
the castle. Her grip tightened on the strap as a chill passed through her; each
noise seemed like it would give her away at any second, would alert a
patroller to her presence and they’d see all the blood and she’d be
immediately arrested and killed. But no one looked her way. No one cared
at all, and for that she was grateful. Sometimes it paid to be so nondescript,
so unremarkable.
It took twenty minutes to walk back to Vela, and in that time, uncertainty
settled into Chi’s bones. Was her hunch in assuming the Coronet would
want blood correct? Had she taken a life callously and without cause?
Would this somehow disqualify her from winning the Coronet’s hand? She
shook her head quickly as if that might banish her racing thoughts, and once
she reached the castle gates, she stopped to admire her temporary home.
Eddows Castle loomed over Vela, high on a hilltop and surrounded by a
thick forest of aggressive-looking trees. Growing up, Chi had listened to
stories about what went on in the castle, how people would venture in but
never return, the screaming that echoed through the canyon below. She’d
been in and around the castle for hours and hadn’t heard anything but
couldn’t deny that the place felt…alive.
Hungry.
She squared her shoulders and nodded at the guards at the gate, who let
her through after scanning the participant identification card around her
neck. Her hands clutched the strap of her bag even tighter as she funneled
all her anxiety into that grip. Never let them see on the outside how you feel
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