Chapter 2

I glace over at Aycn to see if he is as scared as I am. He seems on edge as well. I can feel the heat radiating off of him. Seeming to notice me staring he looks at me and offers a weak smile before looking back at our mothers walking towards us. We wait for them to walk over to us and they do not look happy. My mother looks at both of us and says " Amara how many times do I have to tell you not to fight. Look at what you did to your face." She is always says this stuff I'm so done with her not allowing me to fight.

" My face is fine it's nothing a skin healer can't heal. It's not like I'm doing anything wrong. I don't want to sit back and watch my people die for some stupid war that you started with the North. I don't want to be a Queen that sits back and does nothing as her people die. I want to be a Queen that fights with them." I say looking her on the eyes.

she chuckles and says " You don't understand the war but you'll see that someday you were wrong. " She flicks her hand gesturing to the guards to put the bracelet on me for arguing with her. The bracelet will burn me whenever I try to use my abilities I haven't disobeyed her since I was little. I look at her with pleading eyes "no... no you can't please! Mom!" I back up turning to run away but there is a guard behind me that grabs me. I turn my rings into a spear and stab him in the back. He immediately let's go screaming in pain as I pull it out of his back ready for the next guard. All the guards have abilities but they aren't as strong as mine. I take the metal from my jewelry and create a rope and wrap it around the two others guards trying to put the bracelet on me without moving a muscle. My mother's sighs and says " now child you know what happens when you try to fight back."

I look over at Aycn he is watching helplessly knowing he can't Interfere. His mother is standing next to my mother I can see the hurt in her eyes. My mother calls for Chase he is a silencer the only one in our land. Silencers can get into your head and make you see things that aren't there. They can look through all your memories and thoughts. Chase hates me he is on my mother's side of everything he likes to see my pain. I shake my head and mumble " not agian." The last time this happened I was seven and I didn't want to go to any of my elegance classes. I look up and see him standing next to my mother's smiling at me. I block out everything in my head so he can't get in. He chuckles and says "Amara you know how this works you can try to resist all you want is won't work." I focus on blocking him out.

" I see you've gotten stronger since last time." he says taking a step towards me. I can feel him trying to get in and I try to block him but he breaks through. I yelp in pain. He starts going through all my memories as he does I remember them vividly. I fall to my knees when is finds the one memory I locked away a long time ago. I was friends with a poor girl I would bring her food and play games with her and when the war started my mother found out what I was doing and she sent the girl to war knowing she would die. I see her face and I feel tears on my checks. I've been crying. I hear his booming voice in my head " She died because of you. It was your fault." I shake my head and scream " It wasn't my fault." He replays the day she was shoved onto a bus to go to the war the fear in her eyes. " Stop!" I yell at him. then everything goes dark and the last thing I hear is Acyn screaming my name. "Amara!"

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