Mar 15 2010

Storm Clouds XLIV – An ongoing Succubi Story

This is the continuing story of the Succubi called Storm Clouds…


Chapter Eleven is a little longer this week and some editing of last week’s words with thanks as always to James for his kindness, time, and support in making my words better than they are…


Storm Clouds XLIII

Storm Clouds

Chapter 10

By TeraS















“What do you mean by that?”



Arching an eyebrow, he asked, “That bad?”




Confused, Tom just nodded for her to continue.


“Then how do you all manage to be there?”



“Or something.”





Tom looked shocked: “Power? I got nothing.”




A small smile, “Some gift.”



“Manners count, Thomas.”




“Oh so you have met Tera before, then?”







“You can’t be serious.”











“Seriously: what exactly does that mean?”


Storm Clouds

Chapter 11

By TeraS

Leaves fluttered around in the afternoon breeze moving here and there aimlessly until finally they came to rest on the green lawn beneath them. The chairs had been long taken away, the place where people had gathered to say goodbye.

Then a portal opened there, once again making the leaves spin and fly around until it vanished revealing two figures standing there. Tom and Camilla had returned to the place their journey had begun earlier that day.

Tom looked around, “Looks like they all left without us.”

Camilla brushed some leaves from her hair, “What needed to be said was. Tera would have thanked them, comforted some, and reminded them that life needed to be lived.”

“She’s a theologian too?”

A small giggle, “She is who she is.”

Tom paused for a moment to look at the scene around him, still not quite believing all that he had seen before offering his arm to Camilla, “We’d better get going.”

Together they walked side by side from the backyard, through the ground level, and out the front doors of the brownstone building.

As they passed through the front yard, they could see Tera, sitting on a balcony, high up on the third floor of the building. She was in the same dress she had worn for the ceremony that morning, concerned with what was going on and why someone would threaten her own.  She rested on a wrought iron chair, a small table with some papers upon it beside that.

She watched as Tom and Camilla hailed a passing cab and then entered it. Tom was the last to enter, pausing for a moment to look back at Tera.

He touched two fingers to his left temple and then nodded to her. Tera’s reply was the raising of the tea cup towards him and a nod in return.

As the cab left, she continued to pick apart what she had learned from those that had attended this morning, and more so, those that had not. Someone was threatening her own, that was concerning, but more over, the reason why escaped her for the moment. Still she had found someone to search the mortal realm, and she had placed with him someone that could help to protect him.

She hoped that wouldn’t be necessary…

As she sipped the cup of tea in her hand, a voice broke her thoughts: “Why are we doing nothing?”

Placing the cup on the table, she answered, “We are doing something. The old ways are long gone, we cannot simply strike without aim. Come here, Daughter It is not seemly to hide in the shadows and seethe in anger

A snort of derision was the only answer until Jane came into view. She walked past Tera and stared off into the city around them. Crossing her arms over her chest, she began to rant, “You place your trust in a human. Someone who has no idea what he faces. You ask one of your own to look after that human and, moreover, you tell her to submit to his will. How can you do this?”

“I can

“That is not an answer.”

“Of course it is, Daughter. It is the very first lesson I learned, so long ago. I can believe in others. I can trust in others. That is the first lesson in knowing yourself and what you can do.”

Jane gripped the railing with her hands, the anger within her so very clear as she twisted her hands against the cold steel. Looking over towards Tera, she remarked, “I don’t believe that Brent told us the truth.”

“I know he has. For what reason would be lie about his Eternal? Just because you do not understand does not make his words false…”

“You have trust, Tera. I do not. I buried my twin today. I have lost a part of myself that I should have known she was in danger and helped her I couldn’t. I want someone to pay for this. I want to be there to strip the skin from their bones and make them suffer an eternity for this.”

Tera’s sigh was long and sad, “Have you forgotten all that you have learned Jane? Are you really so willing to fall into darkness for this? You are still young in our ways, but you know well that what you ask for… cannot be.”

Jane didn’t look towards Tera, “I should have been there.”

“You could not, Daughter You were not in a place to help her. No one was. She was targeted by someone or something that wants something from us.”

That made Jane pause for a moment, her thoughts putting what Tera had said together with the story she had read that morning. Looking to the grass below, she whispered, “I saw a story in the newspaper today. It mentioned the place where Brent had been. It said that a man had been seen leaving the place before the fire started.”

Tera shook her head slightly as if to say no, but then she brushed a finger over her lips before answering, “That would mean someone else was there, obviously. Then the question to be asked is: what where they there for and what, if anything, do they have to do with what happened there?

Another whisper from Jane: “Or Brent is lying about what happened.”

The silence that followed those words extended for a time and then, to Jane’s surprise, she felt a hand take hold of her right wrist and begin to pull her into the building, the tea cup on the table tumbling into space as she was forced inside  and out of sight of the surrounding world.

When she turned around, she saw Tera standing there with her red horns and tail visible. The tail pointed at Jane as harsh words passed through the air: “If you see an error in my ways, Daughter, say so. If you feel that I am wrong, prove it. If you have a better idea, show me. If all you have is opinion and anger, you do me and your Sister not a single bit of good.”

Tera closed the distance between them, pressing Jane against the wall behind her in fear of her Queen’s wrath. She closed her eyes, waiting for the strike of a hand against her cheek and the words of displeasure she knew were to come.




The sob was answered by a soft hush and the words, “Do not let the need for revenge or the hate that comes with it cloud your judgment

Jane whimpered the truth, “I can’t, Tera I just can’t

She felt a tail wrap around her legs, and then she was in Tera’s embrace, the tears coming without end

and Tera just telling her to let it all out

1 comment

  1. avatar

    I enjoy the way you fleshed out this chapter a bit more.

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