Only heaven knows why the danger grows Who: The Elias family and their familiars Where: Elias home When: Eeeaaaarly morning
Aurora was far too used to the way that she felt: sore, tired and scared. It was not the exact same as how things had been after she had been used in whatever way by the last vampire, but it was similar. Only she was not stretched out on a bed now, sipping at a drink while Aetheria cuddled next to her. That always made the scared vanish. Stumbling along the ground did not help. Having Neveah give her directions in a clipped voice that sounded scared did not help. It only made Aurora wonder if she should have stayed where she was. Curled up in a place away from the dogs and the little girl with the so-called curly hair and the far too childish voice for what she had said. There nothing else had happened. The cuts opened on her arms and legs by those sharp teeth had dried, though some of them had opened again when Neveah had coaxed her out with a hundred assurances that she would be fine, but they had to go home. Aurora had suggested that Neveah go and get them, but the owl had absolutely refused to leave her perch. She had been as terrified by that little girl as Aurora and would not leave her elemental just in case she came back. They had waited for what was possibly too long, but Aurora... Aurora knew how much blood she could handle losing. She had lost more than this one terrifying time with an overzealous vampire who had not ever had angelic air - a Gabriel, oh it hurt so bad - but then there had been someone to patch up her neck and wrists and that spot on her shoulder. Now the cuts were bleeding again, scabs breaking open as she stumbled, and Aurora truly wished she had not moved at all.
'It's not much further now, Aurora,' Neveah coaxed. The owl could have flown ahead to tell everyone, but she refused to be that far from Aurora right now. She already felt awful enough for not having been able to do anything to protect her from those dogs and that awful girl. 'Oh, it's Breeze!' Aurora may not have been able to see the other bird, but she knew Neveah was telling the truth and a moment later her familiar was urging her to hurry up because home was just right there.
Aurora wanted to hurry, she really did, but there was a particularly large gash on her left leg that had already broken open again just from walking and she did not want to make it worse by running. Even if her family was right there what were they going to do? Elementals did not heal, witches did. Caelia's a witch. But Caelia did not live with them. It had never occurred to Aurora - nor had it stuck when Neveah had suggested it - that her family might be waiting for her. It was night and if they were tired then they needed to go to sleep. Why would they stay up and wait? There had been nights, very rare ones yes, when she had slept alone. Aetheria knew how to do that, but she had Cheila or Dashiell or their parents... Aurora stopped when her leg twinged and she reached down, feeling the wetness again. She had not known that dogs had such sharp teeth or that they could tear... 'Come on Aurora, just a little-' Whatever else the owl had been going to say was lost because Aurora heard a door open so hard that it slammed against the wall and then there were voices declaring her name before suddenly everyone was reaching for her and exclaiming over the shape she was in. All that Aurora could do was lock her arms around the first person who had reached her, tears that had stopped hours ago starting up again. "It was a demon," she sobbed. "She made the dogs so angry... I don't know what happened to August." He had acted strange too. Why?
Neveah had perched on the open door, feathers fluffed up around her. 'I'd have gotten her home sooner, but I didn't know where the demon went. I wasn't going to make it worse.' She almost sounded like she was defending herself, which Aurora did not understand. She would never think her familiar had done a thing wrong.