Anastesia has woken up about five forty rhee the greysun has turned blue due to the fog outside. She wanted to write to Covenant about the present happenings but then pearl's presence paused her
" You shouldn't be here" she spoke, the girl bit her lower lip thoughtfully " I just want you to know about me" Anastesia looked at her carefully,she was now on a pink top and a knee-length denims, white sneakers that made her feet look small.." you want me to put it on record?" " If only to Covenant,yeah"
Anastesia beckoned to her and offered her a chair to sit then she took up a recorder a placed it for her to see " are you ready?" She asked kindly after she received a fair nod she clicked it and started " my name's Pearl Strawman from missing toe and presently I am in crest holes reform unit. I am sixteen years old_or _at least I was told I am sixteen" she chuckled but it was a rueful one she looked up at the lady " look, I see things I don't want to, it's frightening because the one minute I'm in bed the next I'm not,I have a place somewhere_ I don't know where it is but I usually see some people there" " was this Doll's doing?" The girl shook her head and lowered her eyes " no. It was from there that I got to know doll_ I thought she wanted to change something,she fooled me" " did you ever tell your parents that you go somewhere at night?" " It's a gift_" Anastesia stared at her " soul traveling" Anastesia informed her and she nodded then she looked down at her sweaty palms "Pearl you said you do things you don't but they make you do it_whobare these people?"Anastesia asked after a brief silence,her eyes were full of emotion when she looked up to reply "you must know then that my mother is a witch,I cannot betray her hiding place. She out me in the care of some other witch and I work for her_she gives me cookies to give the homeless children_or_or sometimes I steal the sleeping children at night
"She uses some of them for her own rituals but most of them are taken to central coven,they relocate often so I don't know where they are I initiate teenagers of my age who go about taking children too" she stopped because confessing these vulgar things made her to feel faint especially to an anti-agent like Anastesia. She felt horrible. "Are your siblings part of these things?" " I had just sisters because my mother made sure they were just females"she responded quietly,there was a look of confusion on Anastesia's face " had?" She queried simply, Pearl's eyes were teary now " I was the only special on, she used them" "how?" She took in a deep breath before responding carefully "Lena_she was taken to the central coven,Missy;in her fifth birthday she was_killed"she paused to swallow "the other three_I_I watched them die"she ended bitterly . Anastesia saw she was finding it hard to confess these things but she went on"covenant would like to know how" there was hesitation from the quivering girl's lips "Missy,mother knew she was going to die as human but she wasn't willing to remain a bad bloo forever so she took Missy to the kitchen,lied to her and eventually took off her fingers
"Missy was different,she knew my father and was ready to tell on mother for taking off her fingers for a ritual. Mother was annoyed that that Missy knew our father's whereabouts and so she murdered her there.l_I was being wicked too but..but I swear it wasn't willingly u wouldn't want to die like them so I kept mute"her eyes glittered with tears that threatened to fall "your father_couldnt he ask about you all" " to him he has two daughters" "what?". ""He doesn't know mother gave birth to others except I and Missy and now he believes she died of a chronic illness" " what about the others,how did they die?" "Sofia _ it_it was horrible!"she broke out without thinking she ended the record and let the tears free. Nelly was then at the door watching as the younger girl cried out " I_I can't take it anymore. I had been a wicked sister, I didn't kill them but I had a little chance to stop them _but_ but I was afraid. I didn't want to die like them,I had preferred sacrificing their lives instead of mine. I was being inhuman!" Anastesia touched her to stop blaming herself " enough of the self blame Pearl,there are a lot of people who would have done same.Those your and above" Pearl looked up at her,her face giving off a little ray of hope once more "I want to show you"she decided suddenly, Anastesia was rather surprised"you can't it's the past" " I can" there was certainty in her tone.
She had told them what she needed for the sorcery;seven candles and a fur rug for the both of them to sit in the center " is it another form of soul traveling?" She asked as she sat with folded legs on the fur rug after Pearl did " I was taught"she replied simply then took up a knife and cut herself on the palm.She whispered things the older one couldn't comprehend then when her blood was about to give its first fall she waved it over the candle in front of her, slowly from the green candlelights it turned red glowing in dark aura.She shut her eyes and so did the anti-agent,when she opened her eyes she found herself on the empty road of missing toe and when she looked up ahead she saw Pearl turn into a corner.
Quickly she followed until they found themselves standing at the side of a single crooked house
"We'll get in through the back" she told her. She didn't object though a small of her wanted to,only witches, specifically bad bloods got their entrance from behind.
Her mind had been preoccupied until they found themselves in the warmth of a small living room. She was quite startled by a loud voice from behind " Sofia!" . Anastesia turned to see a very pretty lady,a woman in her late thirties; her hair was permitted to fall and she had the prettiest of blue gem stones as seeing organs. She had no makeup on or jewelry to accentuate her beauty_she was a true definition of beauty. " Mother" came a lovely voice of a child coming through the corridor. Anastesia noticed the girl had a straight black hair with a pair of green eyes. Instinctively she suspected she looked like her unknown father instead. When she halted Infront of her mother her hair was inspected " your hair,it needs to be worn properly Sofia honey. Go upstairs to my room"
When the was out of earshot someone else came over;it was the fifteen years old form of Pearl "mother why kill her. She's my comfort" she was awarded a sharp slap before the words could sink in forcing her to whine painfully
"I gave birth to them for their purposes and so you have no right_" crying silently she replied "I'm sorry" "good of you. I wonder how sister Honoria survives with you" "I respect sister Honoria, I do whatever she tells" " then how much more your mother?"her mother spoke and then went on" follow me up there and make sure Anna and Paula do not come around"
When they left Anastesia and Pearl followed them into a spacious room worth of the master's bed room.Sofia was sitting patiently Infront of a mirror while her mother felt her hair "if father were alive, he would have seen what a lovely daughter he had in his looks" " I look like father?"her face brightened already beginning to recreate what her father looked like using her own looks "yes, you're not a red head and you do not look like me in anyway " there was silence as the woman ran her fingers through the jet black locks then she lowered a hand to the flesh of her neck
"Have you ever wished to be like me?"her mother asked, at that moment Sofia looked thoughtful,she stared at her mother through the reflection "yes"she replied expecting to please her mother but instead she saw that she had a deep frown on her perfectly chiseled face "you can't" the reply was hard and bitter, Sofia's face saddened "why?"she asked childishly,a sound escaped young Pearl as she remained the watchman at the door "because I won't to do this"her mother snapped,before Sofia could grasp the reply a dagger was drawn to her neck and instead of a slit she was stabbed.She managed to scream despite the hole on her neck before her mother could shut her,she threw herself on the floor in an attempt to escape. The floor was stained with blood "sister_ help! please" she begged in a choked voice blood oozed out of her mouth. Pearl broke down,tired of the pretence "I'm sorry,I can't mother won't let me"
There were sounds of hurrying feet's of the two sisters calling either mother, Pearl or Sofia
"Of course she can't, she's is as worthless as you're" she drove the dagger into her back,another scream left the dying girl.
When past pearl saw her other sisters wanted to get through she shut the door, wailing as she pressed her back to the door. Her sisters banged on the door begging that she let them in, meanwhile her mother was administering more stabs until the girl was no more.
A force threw the door open and the other surviving sisters gaped at the spectacle and then to their mother who was now damp with blood; Sofia's blood."mum"was all Anna could gasp "good children always remains silent but now I know you're not what I thought" the two stepped back in fearwhen she made a move towards them,Pearl ran forward to stop her "please spare them!" Her mother's face seemed to darken "it is too late"
The children were quick to run down the stairs but their mother followed them quickly and with her powers all the doors were shut and locked.
There was terror in their eyes,Anna grabbed her younger sister by the arm and they took another turn of the house running quickly into the basement. They had the door shut against Pearl and her mother but it was with ease that she broke in,her evil eyes sparkling against the flames of the properly lit candelabrum as she casted her gaze down at the petrified girls hiding in a corner "mother please". At the moment she looked like the evil witch she was,old cranky with folds and scanty red hairs falling like threads on her revealing scalp " you're not like me" came the response and soon she brought their fate upon them with the past Pearl wailing and crying.Pearl couldn't take it any more,she raced out of the room leaving Anastesia who followed some seconds after through the back and into the yard."Pearl"she called " it hurts! It hurts so much like a deep wound,I can't forget this" " let's go back okay?" She was still aware of the spluttering sound of blood and the hissing of knife diving into the ragged flesh.Past Pearl was no longer wailing,only the vulgar sound prevailed.As they walked through the low fence they were not aware of the change; the shadow had now straighten fully and moved over to the only window in the basement. She stared with a frown on her face,har her eyes were on the now retreating figure of present Pearl and Anastesia.
She stared longer because the were not aware of this and they would never know. Even as they were nothit more the tiny dots her evil eyes were still on them..