She looked at him and seemed impressed but hid the look with her sheepish embarrassed look Logan was beginning to think was a cover. “Well to answer your questions I guess I should start in order. You were in that forest simply because the summoning room I was trying to send you to was there. It appears that the other summoning’s had interfered with my power and dropped you where ever it is you found yourself. Secondly as for you lack of feelings that just comes down to our relationship.”
As she says that she smiles. “What do you mean our relationship?” Her smile seems to grow a little brighter “Why it just shows how close you are to death. You know it isn’t a fiery inferno waiting for evil people or a golden land for the devoted and good people of this world. It is just simply a void where nothing happens and you feel nothing. It is simply the place your mind spirit goes to die.
So knowing this you felt no qualms about sending people you deem useless in the world to the void.” She gave him an icy smile for a moment before continuing with his questions. “As for why you are here that one has me stumped as well since you are my first champion since I have existed. It is possible since there is no one to teach you how to control you powers it falls to me."
"As for your final question that’s a bit complicated. As you know I am the goddess of Death and darkness.” Logan nodded and she continued “As such you can sense anything and everything that is either alive or dead. The fact that you are able to do it the day you arrived is very interesting. I’ve seen a few people mostly necromancers or death knights train for decades before being to even grasp it and yet you not only felt that girls strong will to fight her death aka me and instead of acting as my followers would have and killing her you decided to take her with you. Yes very interesting.”
He looked at her as she still had yet to explain his last question. “Oh right sorry what was it you asked right? Well it’s called sense life. Only a champion of life or death can use it. For obvious reasons it helps those of light to sense people who are in the most immediate need of care. While you my champion would use it to find life and squash it out. Should someone try to attack you in the dead of night you will now they are there long before they even see you."
"Or if there are many people around you but only one means you harm you will be able to sense them as the moment they choose to fight you they are already marked as dead.” After saying this she let out an icy laugh that sent shivers down Logan’s spine but found that he also smiled at what she had said. Once again she looked at her watch and then sighed. “I’m afraid that’s all we have time for try not to die ok? Oh and I don’t think you old name is going to fit the new you so how about we change it huh? From now on your name will be Dominit Shadow. I’m really enjoying the show so keep it up.” She winks at him seductively and he hears that chilling laugh again before he passes out.
He slowly wakes up still in the hollowed out tree’s trunk. The girl which he now can see better resembles not just a cat but a white tiger with her stripes. Not knowing what the normal races around here where he was unaware of how rare she really was. She had a small smile on her face while she had it resting on top of his chest. He began to scratch under her chin and her tail began to move slowly back and forth. He smiled and it and began to pet her head while still scratching her chin.
He continued this for possibly a minute when he heard a soft purring noise. Her smile grew until she slowly opened her eyes and looked up at him with a small amount of anger and embarrassment. She slowly pushed off of him and then looked at her right hand. He followed her gaze and then saw her nails had been replaced by long sharp claws. “Ok wait wait...” She sliced at his face since he was pushed down and couldn’t move very well. She stopped an inch from his eye came close to his face and whispered into his ear.
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“Don’t do that again.” She took one claw and slowly dragged it across his left cheek leaving a line of blood. “Sorry about that wasn’t thinking I normally sleep with my pets and always wake up petting them.” This caused her anger to flare up even more. “Did you just call me your pet?” “Fuck. Nice one Loga... Dominit you might just die today” Before he could say anything she looked into his face and saw no ill intent or sexual interest in her. She retracted her claws and got off of him left the small hallow to stretch outside. He followed her after touching his face to wipe the blood off.
As he walked over to her and stopped giving her some personal space. “Look I’m sorry I wasn’t trying to do anything to you really it was just a force of habit.” He did look apologetic so she decided to humor him. “And what kind of “pets” do you have sleep with you?” he gulps knowing exactly what she was implying. “Well I actually have or had four dogs. Two large one medium and one small dog. I hope someone is going to take care of them for me now that I’m gone.” She looks at him strangely. “What do you mean gone?” This time it was his turn to frown at her and look at her suspiciously. “Sorry I don’t know if I can trust you enough with any answers.”
She slowly hissed at him “How dare you say that.” She pulled her rag dress down to show him her chest which had the same symbol from last night just above her breasts. “I let you put this on me and you dare talk about trust.” He then laughed at her icily similarly to Nyx’s “You didn’t exactly have much of a choice though. I’m planning on letting you go about your life as soon as we are out of this damn forest.”
She stomped towards him releasing her claws again. “You think I can just leave you after I did a blood oath with you.” She begins to attack him with her claws. “Do you even know what it really does or do you just not care? Since we did the oath with you in a position of power over me it mutated.” As she tried to claw his face he caught her arm and used her momentum to trip her making her fall past him.
“What are you talking about? What does that even mean?” she got up and let lose a high pitched roar like when a lion goes to attack its prey. “What does it mean? It means if I’m more than fifty feet away from you for more than five minutes I’ll receive a pain far more than what that stupid collar did to me and if I show no signs of turning back it will double until I either die or come back to you. The only time it doesn’t affect the enslaved one is if their master’s life is in peril and leaving will save them.”
She finished talking and got down on all fours then sprang at Dominit. He caught her mid-flight and they rolled around on the ground trying to get the other to submit. He finally managed to capture her and pin her to the forest floor. She was crying now and trying to hit him with closed fists. So he let go of her arms as she started to hit him lightly in the chest. “You bastard I can’t even hurt you because it would violate the oath.”
She’s still crying and eventually stopped hitting him. He crawled off of her and she just continued to lay there. He was sitting next to her and decided something. “If she’s stuck with me then I’d better treat her right. Like mom always said a happy wife means a happy life or slave I guess but still.” He grabs her shoulders and she stiffens waiting to be struck for attacking him. Instead she is pulled into his embrace much like the night before and he begins to pet her head again.
“I’m sorry I didn’t know that it would turn out this way. I know it doesn’t mean much to you now but I will cherish you for as long as I live.” She took a small amount of comfort from his words and stayed there in his grasp trying to think of a future where she could face her parent’s being a blood slave to a human man she didn’t know.