Her Revenge Starts With Him

I could see Will's rise and fall as he breathed in a steady rhythm as if undisturbed by everything that surrounded him. He couldn't hear us, and he continued on to his dreams like there was nothing to worry about.

A smile carved out dimples on the side of his cheeks and I wondered what could it be he dreamed about.

"Do you think he deserves your hatred Elizabeth? Do you think he should pay for breaking your heart?"

I quickly spun my heel to face the blind seer and I could tell he regarded me with calmness in contrast to my raging tempest.

"He deserves to suffer the way I did. Much worse, he deserves to hurt how he had hurt me." I spoke with vehemence. "No matter how wonderful he was, he betrayed me in the end."

"What are you going to do then? He did not kill you, but will you kill him?" he asked with a curious grin.

"To kill him would only be too easy. There is no gratification in a quick death. I will kill him slowly, make him feel the pain bit by bit, scar him for the rest of eternity and burn into him the pain he caused me." I said through clenched teeth.

Suddenly, the door with which we entered opened slowly and Katarina walked in Will's bedchamber. My mouth fell open in shock as the fine young lady passed through me and peered into Will's sleeping face.

She smiled at him and proceeded to kiss his cheeks.

William was a deep sleeper. When he slept during our picnics, you couldn't wake him up unless you shouted in his ears. Whatever movements that were made around him, he was totally oblivious when he was asleep.

Katarina's eyes moved down to his hand that held the kerchief. She noticed the embroidered letters at the edge and her smile quickly turned to an ugly scowl. She snatched the measly cloth away and stormed off outside.

Absentmindedly, I chased after Katarina and as I opened the door, I was transported into the forest near our little hut. The trees during the night didn't seem too welcoming unlike the day when Will and I would stroll around it hand in hand.

Wisps of blue light formed into a little girl's shape and appeared in a luminous form. She had no face and her hair floated in mid-air like she did. The blind seer approached her and she whispered something in his ear, then giggled.

"Ahh… I see now." He said as he scratched his chin in contemplation.

After it spoke to the blind seer, the little girl's form disappeared into the night leaving behind soft giggles that gradually faded.

"What is it? Who was that?" I asked him as he sat down on a gnarly root of an ancient red maple tree. As I inspected closer, this was the same tree that Will and I used to lay around and just talk the day away.

"That was the spirit of the forest, sweetheart." He answered me briefly.

"And what did she say? Did she say anything about why I was brought into the future?" I asked further, pressing urgently for answers to the questions I needed to be clarified.

"The spirit of the forest had seen the suffering of the women of Shalem. And it says it favors you of all the women who died. She didn't say anything but apparently Juno and her adores you, dear." He sank further into the ground and ultimately lay flat, his eyes staring up at the clear skies.

"And? What else?" I spoke.

"They had a deal with someone. Someone who was a victim as much as you are. Someone deprived of the things that could have been if not for the burning." He shot out his hand and imagined himself grab on to a single star.

"The spirit speaks of tasks that you must accomplish." He continued.

"The tasks are what exactly? Get to the point already, you make me lose patience." I asked him again.

"You must avenge the women from the people that wronged them. Including you as well, sweetheart. You will need to find out who those people are." He stood up and dusted himself.

"They left you a parting gift of magic. You may use it any way you want until you have accomplished all of the things you need to do. However, you must not kill with the powers you possess."

I looked into my own hands.

It dawned on me what it was that made the crawling sensations under my skin and the buzz that drowned my ears when my emotions get the better of me.

It was magic after all that exploded cans of beers.

My magic.

"I still don't know what I am supposed to do. I barely knew the women who died with me that night, how much more the people that wronged them." I said as I walked towards him, demanding more to be explained.

"How much of avenging and giving them justice must I do? And how can I do that during the present time where they aren't exactly the same persons they were before? I don't even know who wronged them!" I exclaimed in frustration.

The blind seer reached for my hand and I felt the electric pulses again.

"You give them happiness, Elizabeth. Give them something they won't forget for the rest of their lives. Be with them in the present, know who they are, and what deep, dark secrets they hide inside and help them find peace." He touched my cheeks and a sudden chill coursed through my whole body.

"Find happiness too, dear. The sweetest revenge is to find pure joy after justice has been served. Your future depends on the choices you will make from here on out. Choose your actions wisely, or else suffer the consequences at the end."

I looked back into the town of Shalem and saw the fires that raged below. The pain felt so fresh like an open wound that has been sprinkled with salt.

"There will be no turning back once you start."

When the blind seer said his last words, everything began to turn white. The touch of his hand slowly faded into nothing and I blinked rapidly as my consciousness returned to the present time.

The boy smiled at me and the pachinko machines continued to disperse metal balls into the catch box.

"Good luck with your mission, Elizabeth Ainsworth. Or should I say, Elizabeth Jennings." He stood up and walked away without giving me much of a side glance.

I leaned my hand onto the pachinko machines and quite astonishingly, I released a pulse of energy towards the machine which spread out to the others.

A series of jackpot tunes played and the staff were alerted by such noise.

"HEY! You scum, how could you sabotage the pachinko machines!?"