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Authors: A. J. Locke
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immediately coughed as a strong scent caught in my throat. I swallowed, and cleared my throat, but ended up coughing again.
“Are you okay?” Micah asked. “Need some water?”
“No, I’m okay,” I said. I looked at Tielle. “Your perfume is rather strong.” Overwhelmingly so. It was a sweet scent, but far too strong, like someone had decided to take all the sweet scents and mix them together.
Micah gave me a look that said he agreed with me but hadn’t planned on being the one to say anything about it.
Tielle gave a tight smile. “The perfume I’m wearing was a gift. I’m trying to do the nice thing by wearing it.”
“The nicer thing would be to pour it down the sink,” I muttered. My throat had that itchy feeling that prompted coughing, but I tried my best to suppress it and took a not so subtle step away from Tielle.
“Anyway, if we’re done discussing my perfume, we have other rather pressing matters on hand.”
What had her panties in an even tighter bunch than usual? When I looked at Micah, I noticed that his smile had faded.
“What is it?” I asked. Tielle handed me the tablet they’d been looking at.
“There’s been another article,” Micah said grimly as I started to read. “It…it’s worse than the first one.”
If you thought I was not serious about exposing Selene Vanream, you were wrong. Many of you still hold on to the notion that this woman is a hero, but I am here to tell you otherwise. We all know that about half a year ago, Selene contracted the Rot. There is no cure for the Rot, yet Selene managed to overcome it. Maybe you think it had to do with her dying and being revived, that it wiped the Rot from her system. Well, you would be wrong. The truth of how Selene overcame the Rot is truly dark, and twisted, and fully showcases how black a soul she has. In order to be saved from the Rot, Selene accepted a cure that put the reanimation power of stripped reanimators into her body. The Rot would target the new power and leave hers alone. It was a Band-Aid cure, but one that would ensure Selene’s continued existence as long as she subjected herself to periodically absorbing the reanimation power of others. Power that was obtained from the runes that contained reanimator’s stripped power, that are supposedly kept under lock and key. Nothing her boyfriend and his madman uncle couldn’t get around of course.
And here is the very worst part: once the Rot consumed the added reanimation power in her body, the former reanimator it belonged to would drop dead. As we know, reanimators cannot live without their power, but this held little regard for Selene. Four stripped reanimators are dead because of her: Gina Rivera, Lenard Hoff, Jun Pak, and Crystal Feld. Know their names, look them up, and see the obscure, swept-under-the-rug way their sudden deaths were handled, all around the same time last August. Know that Selene Vanream and her counterparts were fully responsible for their passing, yet are walking free under the pretense that they are heroes.
Selene Vanream is no idol, and it is high time she is torn down.
I felt sick enough to throw up. I shakily collapsed onto the chair in front of Tielle’s desk and put the tablet down. Micah came to kneel down next to me, taking my hands. I felt like I was going into shock.
“He really meant it,” I whispered. “He is really trying to destroy my life.”
“Jacob won’t get away with this,” Micah said.
“But we have no proof that he’s the one releasing these articles,” I said. “His verbal threats against me don’t stand.” I looked at Tielle. “Micah told me you took care of the situation with the dead reanimators and the missing runes that Renton used. How did Jacob even find out about all of this?”
“I am not sure,” Tielle said. Her face looked as severe as I’d ever seen it. “However, you will not be toppled by the words of an anonymous article that is so clearly meant to viciously
“Are you okay?” Micah asked. “Need some water?”
“No, I’m okay,” I said. I looked at Tielle. “Your perfume is rather strong.” Overwhelmingly so. It was a sweet scent, but far too strong, like someone had decided to take all the sweet scents and mix them together.
Micah gave me a look that said he agreed with me but hadn’t planned on being the one to say anything about it.
Tielle gave a tight smile. “The perfume I’m wearing was a gift. I’m trying to do the nice thing by wearing it.”
“The nicer thing would be to pour it down the sink,” I muttered. My throat had that itchy feeling that prompted coughing, but I tried my best to suppress it and took a not so subtle step away from Tielle.
“Anyway, if we’re done discussing my perfume, we have other rather pressing matters on hand.”
What had her panties in an even tighter bunch than usual? When I looked at Micah, I noticed that his smile had faded.
“What is it?” I asked. Tielle handed me the tablet they’d been looking at.
“There’s been another article,” Micah said grimly as I started to read. “It…it’s worse than the first one.”
If you thought I was not serious about exposing Selene Vanream, you were wrong. Many of you still hold on to the notion that this woman is a hero, but I am here to tell you otherwise. We all know that about half a year ago, Selene contracted the Rot. There is no cure for the Rot, yet Selene managed to overcome it. Maybe you think it had to do with her dying and being revived, that it wiped the Rot from her system. Well, you would be wrong. The truth of how Selene overcame the Rot is truly dark, and twisted, and fully showcases how black a soul she has. In order to be saved from the Rot, Selene accepted a cure that put the reanimation power of stripped reanimators into her body. The Rot would target the new power and leave hers alone. It was a Band-Aid cure, but one that would ensure Selene’s continued existence as long as she subjected herself to periodically absorbing the reanimation power of others. Power that was obtained from the runes that contained reanimator’s stripped power, that are supposedly kept under lock and key. Nothing her boyfriend and his madman uncle couldn’t get around of course.
And here is the very worst part: once the Rot consumed the added reanimation power in her body, the former reanimator it belonged to would drop dead. As we know, reanimators cannot live without their power, but this held little regard for Selene. Four stripped reanimators are dead because of her: Gina Rivera, Lenard Hoff, Jun Pak, and Crystal Feld. Know their names, look them up, and see the obscure, swept-under-the-rug way their sudden deaths were handled, all around the same time last August. Know that Selene Vanream and her counterparts were fully responsible for their passing, yet are walking free under the pretense that they are heroes.
Selene Vanream is no idol, and it is high time she is torn down.
I felt sick enough to throw up. I shakily collapsed onto the chair in front of Tielle’s desk and put the tablet down. Micah came to kneel down next to me, taking my hands. I felt like I was going into shock.
“He really meant it,” I whispered. “He is really trying to destroy my life.”
“Jacob won’t get away with this,” Micah said.
“But we have no proof that he’s the one releasing these articles,” I said. “His verbal threats against me don’t stand.” I looked at Tielle. “Micah told me you took care of the situation with the dead reanimators and the missing runes that Renton used. How did Jacob even find out about all of this?”
“I am not sure,” Tielle said. Her face looked as severe as I’d ever seen it. “However, you will not be toppled by the words of an anonymous article that is so clearly meant to viciously
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