Keelie didn't understand anything. Just hours before, she and Oran were making love in her bed, now she was running with all her might in the middle to get to them. Haren had finally appeared before her as himself and threatened her in front of Oran. That of course was the purpose. Haren wanted Oran angry and he wanted him dead.
Far ahead of her, in a clearing outside of town Oran and Haren were fighting. Haren stood before the demon with large graying wings at his back. Both men let loose a string of blasts like the mortal realm has never seen. Oran was going to kill the bastard if it was the lat thing he did, unfortunately, that was exactly what Haren wanted. Keelie ran out into the clearing, her chest pounding and her breathe short. She had to stop them. They were both playing into that bitches hands. "Oran don't!" she yelled out to him. He turned in her direction just for a moment and was blasted clean across the clearing. She screamed and ran towards him only to be stopped by a wave of power from Haren. She clutched at her thought as she fought for breathe.
Haren stood before the Fay woman for the second time this day. In his mind his sister whispered to kill her. "Don't!" Keelie pleaded as she gasped for breathe.
"Pleading for you're life woman? You should no by now that doesn't work." he said with cruel eyes. It was in his eyes she finally knew the truth, Haren was as much a victim as she was.
"If you kill me...you'll never be free of her." She gasped.
"Free of who?"
"Hermena. She's keeping you trapped and you now it." As she spoke the woman's ghost burst from Haren in anger.
"What are you waiting for! Kill the bitch!" She screamed.
Haren pulled out a long dagger and held it up to her neck. He pressed it against her skin and drew blood. Hermena watched gleefully as crimson blood dripped down the blade into the dirt.
It seemed as if out of nowhere when Oran tackled Haren to the ground. With the sudden impact, whatever was holding Keelie finally let go and she crumpled to her knees gasping for air.
"Wait! Please!" She managed to stop Oran from sending a blast of energy right into the angel's face. In her hand she had grabbed the blood stained dagger.
"You won't stop me Keelie, I swore I would end this!" Oran yelled.
"You said you'd seal him away, not kill him!" She shouted.
"You're defending him! After what he did to you!"
"It's not his fault Oran! He's as trapped now as he was in the book!"
"I know!" he yelled.
Her eyes grew wide from shock. She was about to ask him more but Haren began to fight back. Before she lost her nerve she walked over to the struggling men and in one swift motion, she dug the dagger into the dirt beside Haren's face. Oran looked up at her in shock only to clutch his ears in pain as a blood curdling scream as Hermena's ghost burst into view. Keelie had seen the ghost only briefly before she struck but it was enough. She screamed and squirmed in the dirt in pain. On the ground beside her, Haren yelled out in pain, clutching his head.
"YOU THINK YOU'VE WON WOMAN! EVEN IN DEATH I WILL NEVER LET HIM GO!" Hermena screamed. Before the ghost could say more she shattered like fallen glass.
"Keelie..." Oran spoke, but he wasn't looking at her. Haren had finally stopped screaming.
"Did it work?" She asked.
"Noooot exactly..." he said as he pointed down at the angel. Haren lay out on the ground as if he were going to sleep, his wings stretched out wide behind him. His feet were slowly turning to stone.
"Oh god! We have to stop it! Oran can you stop it?" she fell to the ground and tried to slow it down with her hands.
"Don't bother little Fay... you wouldn't be able to stop it even with your enchanted blood." it wasn't Oran who spoke. She looked up at Haren's face and for the first time that day his face was relaxed. His sky blue eyes focused on her.
