NOVPUB''she dared to claim what's mine!'' Margaret shook with fury, her veins popped and her eyes filled with murderous intent.
''bang!'' she threw the clays smashing them in pieces. The muscular woman who relayed the news shrank back in fear, hoping the leader wouldn't vent her anger on her. She watched the leader pacing around heaving in deep breaths and she wished she was not the one who brought the news.
''Get out of my sight! out!'' she screamed, the woman scurried away, sighing mentally in relief.
Margaret walked fast to the inner tent while giving her guards the command to bar any of her husbands from entering. She opened the fur curtain and entered; she walked to a certain location beside the embryo fudge. removing the fur-covered floor- revealing a trap door.
Opening it there was a ladder going straight down, she climbed down and moved around in the dark with familiarity- picking up a solar lamp, she lit up the room. in front of her were: test tubes filled with different colors of liquid, an odd-looking budding black plant, and an old ancient book opened in the side.
she moved to the plant and gazed at it fervently with crazed greed when she saw it growing. She just needs ten years for the plant to mature and everything would be hers. she felt calmer seeing everything going according to her plans, she had waited for nineteen years, what's ten more years to her- she had to endure and patiently wait.
She looked at the book beside her and caressed its peeling pages, since she found this book, her life changed. she looked in the direction of the north oasis:
''Wait for me to claim you. the ultimate power.'' her lips stretched into a crazy smile which turned into a burst of laughter.
She unfolded her bandaged hands hidden under her fur clothes, her flesh was filled with long old, and new ugly scars but she felt no heartache. She tore open one of the scars and watched blood dripping from her hands touching the plant and saw the plant glow and dim back. she closed her wounds and switched off the lamp.
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cyra was in a tough position, she was attacked from all sides. she tore the ant legs attacking her from the side and used them to smash the heads of the ones attacking her from the front. black liquid burst out from there, and they dropped dead but others took their place.
''cough...'' she felt nauseous from the blood stench. her eyes pooling with tears but she kept on swinging the torn flesh as her weapon.
''ow! fuck that hurts!'' she screamed as she dragged out the one biting her left shoulder. She squashed it in anger, dropping it quickly to avoid the blood from touching her.
''boom!''
''bang!''
The sound filled the area, she killed but more kept coming. She was feeling it was harder to breathe, every breath she took she felt exhausted and nauseous. all her limbs were already heavy and numb. She just kept swinging, her senses getting duller. she was attacked from the back and she stumbled and almost fell to the ground but she caught herself in time.
Zane watched all these and felt it was time for her training to end. he signaled for Greed to drop to the ground. Greed spread its wings and fluttered blowing all the ants away even Cyra was pushed back by the wind and dust blocked the visions of the ants.
Zane carried Cyra back and took off on Greed before the ants could regroup. As soon as Cyra's head hit the soft coat she dozed off. Zane saw her like this and felt his heart ache but she had to get stronger or this land would chew her without spitting out her bones and he couldn't always be around her to save her all the time.
This was the only thing he could do for her, he massaged her body, making sure all her muscles loosened and blood flowed well and he squeezed out some poison from the ant's bite- if he didn't do it would weaken her health but not kill her.
''Sigh...'' Cyra turned in her sleep and moaned in her sleep, sighing in satisfaction. he massaged her for thirty minutes and watched the darkening sky, he instructed Greed to look for skitticks.
