Reaper's Word

Chapter 14: So Close

Isaiah moved down the hall and Beta came toward him. He stopped his nose going up and his ears perked up in a very canine manner.

"Hear something?"

‘A voice, female.’ Beta's mental voice said. Isaiah came toward him curious. He didn't hear anything. However he thought that perhaps there was a soft click of a door. Beta moved toward a door not ten feet from him. Isaiah opened it with his mind for him.

Beta went in with an easy stride and by the time Isaiah came to the door he had a black canister of some kind in his mouth. It smelled of Clair, the room did. She'd been in here and not long ago, minutes. He glanced around, she must have heard them and left quickly. Which told him there was a passageway in the wall in this room he didn't know about. She must have left in haste leaving this behind.

He opened the canister and moved to the large glass table in the room. He looked inside and saw paper. Her favorite pastime and he was interested to see what she had drawn this time.

"What do we have here?" He asked and Beta gave a whine and mental question.

"Drawings." He answered Beta's question for him. He was in dog form right now. It was just after sunrise and the sky was cloudy so the light didn't bother him so much yet. Not in this form. He pulled out the three drawings. The top one was of the house.

he saw the next one. It was him holding the silver knives, his arm extended. Anger was plain on his face. The muscles in his arm defined and the blade just an odd blur in the air. He moved it away

this picture unlike the last one where his eyes were solid black. Where the fuck was she hiding that she could see these things? He turned to look around the room. He moved

looking. He took a deep breath, her smell was here so close but it ended at the wall. She'd become scared and that made her scent disappear. What a unique defense mechanism. It made him question

It was starting to drive him insane. She was always so damn close yet far away it would seem. He just wanted to

should wait to catch

the change. I want to catch her before that happens, understood?" He gave a head bob and left the room. Isaiah walked up to the mirror looking at his reflection and then put a finger to it. There was a passage here, and

floor, there was a space in the wall here, the mirror wasn't full length but he lifted his leg up and managed

felt a slight annoyance, and pressure from

room he knew she had seen him

scented her either. Then again she seemed to have a natural defense that made her near invisible. It had happened before with a human, but not so well as it did with Clair. He just walked slowly down the halls but

down the grounds were covered with the white snow. He was thinking about different things and the one occupant who was extremely elusive to him. Which was curious, he was trying to decide just what he was going to do about this. Good entertainment was hard to come by lately. However his ability to deny himself what he wanted was really hard

wasn't going to be a nice one for her. That was probably a good way to do it. The most amount of entertainment while still getting what

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