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The Wait
by Ela Lourenco
A blinding light pierces through the darkness. I close my eyes as tightly as I can, but it permeates through my eyelids as though to burn my retinas. Huddling against the walls of my little room I hide from the sun’s rays. Moving from corner to corner as the brightness hunts me, changing its course hour by hour. I count the seconds and minutes until night-time – until the hours of my freedom. I yearn for the night, the differing shades of blackness and shadows. I live in the darkness I was born into.
Only once the sky is black will I rise and make my way to the one tiny window and peer outside – seeking the dark swaying branches raising their gnarled fingers towards the obsidian skies in an unholy dance. I join them from my room, my embryo – together we await the second rising of the dark Prince. We await the time he will bring the never-ending night…
Fiction © Copyright Ela Lourenco
Image courtesy of Rie Sheridan Rose.
More from Ela Lourenco:
Dragon Born: Book Three
Awakening
The Royal tournament, the Karnac, is fully underway. But there is deception and betrayal at every turn. Unseen dark forces are at play, both within the school grounds and out with. Even the Gods are unable to help when a new threat looms over them all.The very existence of Azmantium depends on Lara fully becoming the Child of Fire and casting aside the Shadows lurking in every corner of her beloved planet.Can she overcome the challenges that await? Will the Shadows cover the world in darkness? Only Lara and her friends can change the fate of Azmantium.
Spreading the Writer's Word 
Darkly intriguing and excellent.
There is such a huge amount of stroy wrapped in this beautiful, lyrical prose – great work.