Who: Lissa and Rebekah What: Reliving old horrors Where: A random maze in the wilderness When: Tomorrow night Warnings: Some creepy and possibly offensive bastards are likely to make some appearances.
She didn't know why but for most of the afternoon Lissa had been feeling restless. She'd spent some of it sitting with Christian in their room at the inn and other times checking on the baby. She was doing so many different things now and Lissa loved each and every one of them. She'd gone back to the prison a few days at a time but still kept a few things at the inn and stayed on there days at a time too. It was easy to go back and forth freely and she knew that Azazeal didn't mind their presence there at all.
It had been a day or so since they'd all had a feeding and maybe it was the hunger, but when Lissa stepped outside the inn to get some air she felt dizzy. There had been no real use of spirit in a while but it was possible that she'd felt some effects from it during the couple of days that Rose was missing. She had started to turn to go back inside, but something kept her from walking back up the porch stairs.
Sometimes her ability caused her to sense things that others didn't but this wasn't like that. It was more like a whisper calling to her from somewhere in the woods and she didn't think to look back before wandering off into the darkness on her own away from the safety of the inn. Christian, Rose, and Dimitri would lecture her later when they realized she'd walked off on her own but the thought didn't cross her mind until she was far enough away that she knew she needed to keep going. She'd already left so she might as well make the trip worth the lecture.
They'd done a lot of walking around the wilderness since arriving in Everett over a year ago, but she didn't think she'd ever been in this section of the woods. If she had, she didn't recognize it in the darkness. Lissa tugged her coat more tightly around herself and shivered a bit from the cold. She may have been a vampire, but she still felt the cold air biting at her exposed skin. Walking a bit more there was a shadow ahead of her that was puzzling. The closer the got to it the more she realized that it wasn't a shadow but a wall of thick brush that was so high she didn't know where it ended and the sky began.
Unable to stop herself, Lissa spotted an opening and stepped inside only to see more of the same towering walls. How had no one else come across this?
"Vasilisa."
A whisper of a familiar male voice that haunted her dreams tickled her ears and she spun around only to find no one behind her. "Hello?" Her voice was shaky and nervous, but she made sure to put on a true look of royalty after the first hesitation.
"Do you realize how disgraceful you are to your people?"
Her face hardened and she desperately searched for the source of the voice. It sounded like Victor Dashkov, but she couldn't believe that it was him. He'd come back while the influx of ghosts haunted Everett, but she hadn't seen or heard from him since including when all of the other ghosts had been brought back to life.
There was a noise that caught her attention, but when she looked again she still didn't see anyone. The one change that she did see was that the place where she had thought she'd come into the maze was now closed off. Or had she gone farther into the made and not realized it?
"Hello?" She called out again. "Is someone there?"