389 Priority (1/2)
Meanwhile inside the inn, Abi quickly paid for a room and brought Alicia there. They headed straight to the bathroom. Abi helped Alicia undress so that her back was uncovered and Abi carefully cleaned her wounds with a warm, wet cloth.
Abi looked at the damage Zeke had done and she couldn't help but flinch when she touched the open wounds with the cloth. She could only imagine the kind of pain Alicia was in.
”Are you okay? Does it hurt?” she asked. ”Sorry, that was a stupid question. That bad Zeke… he should've at least been a little gentler.”
”It's okay. Ezekiel actually held back a lot. Besides, he had to do that to make it look realistic,” Alicia responded but Abi still felt bad.
After Abi cleaned Alicia's wounds, Alicia gave her a bottle with green colored oil inside it. Abi poured a generous amount onto a clean cloth and started to dab her open wounds with some of the oil.
”These won't leave marks on you, right?”
”Don't worry, they won't,” Alicia smiled to reassure Abigail.
As Abi waited for Alicia to get changed - luckily she still had her backpack with her clothes in the car so she was able to give Alicia a clean shirt - she closed her eyes to listen to her surroundings. She also wanted to check on Alex because she was worried about what those strange creatures wanted. She couldn't help but think that maybe those creatures were actually after Alex too.
What Abi heard first was Zeke's statement about Alex's weakness, his Achilles heel - she, of course, correctly deduced that Zeke was talking about her - and then she heard him say that the easiest way to bring Alex down was by using her.
Those words made Abi's heart thud uncomfortably. She was reminded of the fact that she was the person prophesied to kill Alex. She was reminded that Alex was in danger once again because of her. What Zeke said was true but she thought she wasn't his weakness because of what he felt for her; she was his weakness because she was the one person in this world who could kill him. But why? Why her? Why did that person in the prophecy have to be her?
”Abigail, are you okay?” Alicia asked as she walked out of the bathroom when she saw that Abi had a faraway look in her eyes.
Abi blinked and was pulled back to reality. ”I-I'm fine.” She forced a smile as she stood up. ”Are you ready?” Abi asked and when Alicia nodded, Abi held her wrist and both of them returned to the car.
Alicia continued casting a spell over them to make sure that nobody spied on them during their trip back to the castle. She was powerful enough to cast a spell over the entire castle and also within a five mile radius of the castle.
The car finally stopped at the castle's entrance. Not wanting to create a commotion or cause suspicion within the palace, they tied up Alicia again and covered her head with a jacket, hiding her silver hair so that everyone else would think that they had caught a normal witch causing trouble.