Chapter 69

"They're here!" Come shouts from outside.

We walk out to investigate. Once again, we saw a new kind of Unseelie.

"Straw Axes."

They rode skeleton horses with thick harnesses. Covering their entire bodies were thick black robes. Their name I guess came from the large masks made of straw covering their faces and all the top half of their bodies, also, twigs stuck out from the top of their heads and out to the side.

Each had wicked axes at their side, each enchanted with vile curses.

The leader, taller and broader than the rest. They carried Beth's broken body. She looked like a snap twig, and the shock didn't hit me. Maybe I was numb to it at this point.

I thought only that I didn't know a human body could be twisted like that - she was a wrung towel now.

At least she wasn't hurting anymore. She was dead and I wouldn't let them raise her against her wishes.

"Why?" I asked.

"Ha…ha …"