Chapter 15

Ana

The nerve of this guy.

I risked my life coming down into this well for him and he can’t even be polite to me. Although, just a few minutes ago I wasn’t able to breathe, and now, after he… I felt my face beginning to heat up. No no no, Ana. Don’t think about it. He sat there so unnerved by everything. Now looking at him, it made sense, he really was too surreal to be a human. He was an unearthly sort of being.   

“You do know that staring is impolite.” He shrugged whilst keeping his gaze forward.

“I wasn’t staring.” I quickly covered my embarrassment.

“You humans lie so easily.”

I let out a sigh and sat near him, lowering my eyes. “I suppose I can’t disagree with you. There are many of us who do not value honesty.” Like my father, I thought while looking at the grassy ground. “But,” I tried to smile away the sorrow I always felt in my heart when I thought of my parents, “Not all humans are like that.”

“You are too naïve.” He stood and reached his hand out towards me, “Now come, I cannot leave you here. I have a task to complete.” His grip was firm and strong as he pulled me up. “Now follow me with the bag.” He instructed while pointing towards a bag that leaned against another tree trunk.

I did as I was told and followed him along the path. My arms were giving way. What was in this bloody bag anyway? “Where are we going?”

He didn’t answer.

“Say,” I began as I struggled with the weight of the bag, “Why don’t we maybe take turns?”

“You can’t hold the groceries, you can hold a single bag. What can you do except complain?” he muttered.

“What’s even in this thing?” I stopped to catch my breath whilst placing an arm on my lower back which was beginning to ache. Whew. I’m getting way too old for my age. I decided to take a peek inside and shrieked, dropping the bag down.

“What in hell’s name.”

“You- you- there’s a head in the bag!” I shivered, mortified.

“Well of course there is.” He answered quite annoyed.

“And you just decided that I transport the decapitated thing around for you?”

“Well I had to put you through some work,” he scowled, “You already did me the honor of keeping me back from carrying out my task.”

“Well, I’m sorry that I was genuinely concerned about you and followed you down here.” I iced.

“Precisely and look where your foolishness got both of us.” He hissed.

“What kind of God are you?” I was so upset. My words came out like criticizing bullets.

“I-” he edged, “Am no God.”

In a swift second, he grabbed the bag and began walking ahead. I felt a tang of regret with the manner in which I spoke. I shouldn’t have been so harsh towards him. However, every time I tried to be nice he seemed so edgy and was rude to me so how could I just accept that? I do admit I must have gone a little too far though.

The journey ahead was silent. It felt oddly longer than I had initially expected it to be. The long trails were all quite similar in which they were lonely and paved with dried mud. I exhaled as we walked alongside. “I’m sorry.” I breathed. “I shouldn’t have been so harsh.”

“Stop.” He suddenly instructed. “Don’t move.”

His eyes lowered to my feet where a snake was wrapped around my legs and slithering up beneath my dress. My face paled. “Yuriiii!” I softly screamed trying my best not to move, clutching onto his shirt tightly. “Get it offff! Get it off,- get it off-get it off!”

How the hell did I not feel this bloody snake?

Yuri looked at me in my panicked state and smirked. “Now, I should just leave you here.” There was a devious sort of aura about him at the moment. Surely, he wouldn’t dare. He knelt to the ground and suddenly pried the snake off by the head with his bare hand. “I don’t like being followed, snake.” He said while flinging the creature as far away as possible.

My blood crawled from the inside out.

There was a snake wrapped around my leg and I didn’t even feel it.

“The snake seemed to have taken a liking to the warmth of your flesh.” He chuckled. “Usually when a male snake of the Otherworld wraps itself around a woman, he refuses to let her go without feasting on her tender flesh bit by bit.”

I laughed dryly, “You’re joking right?”

We stopped at the edge of a bright town ahead.

“What is it?” I asked observing his grave expression.

“A human doesn’t belong to the Otherworld. If any of the creatures which reside down here come to know of your being here, they’ll rip you apart.”

“Aw,” I smiled playfully, “You care about me.”

Yuri took a deep tired sigh, “I don’t. I just can’t be seen walking around with a human.”

“Gee, you’re a sweetheart.” I rolled my eyes.

 He stared at me for a few seconds and grinned. “Let’s make you less talkative.”

“What?”

Suddenly I felt as if he was getting taller, or rather I was shrinking. What was happening? Pretty soon I was the height just above his shoe. My hands and feet were flat on the ground. I look up to the towering man before me who held a plastered and amused grin.

“There.” He chuckled and knelt on the ground, looking down at me. I felt his large hand grab onto the back of my neck and held me up to his face. I looked at my hands dangling in the air before me and screamed when suddenly instead of hands I was looking at a fluffy furry paw. My scream somehow turned into a meow.

“Now give me a little purr.” He laughed softly.

This brute.

I scratched him across his pretty face with a hiss.

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