5 Black Mail and the Decision 2.1

Miss did I hear him right? Suddenly feeling troubled about what I thought I heard I look at him confused. I must be mistaken.

"I'm sorry master Alastar my head is pounding I must have miss heard you what did you say?" I say jokingly.

"Oh you heard me just fine! I'd like to hear your story little miss that's why I haven't reported this yet." Alastar said as he leaned back against the stone wall.

"I'M NOT A WOMEN!" I shout frustrated and flustered.

"Deny it all you want, but I know for sure you indeed are." His face had a smug look on it as his eyes were fixated on me. His finger was pointing at my chest as he spoke with confidence.

My mind is in chaos why does he think this? Wait what is this place? Where am I?

"You're in the medical ward in the lower chambers of the monastery this is my private room here." I was indeed in a medical ward the white sleek linen on the bed and covering over me with the curtain pulled back that are used to pull around the bed for privacy, there was a bed side table with a clear glass vase holding sun flowers, and what looks like a small dresser at the end of the bed..

"But wh...…"I start to speak confused and panicked.

"Why are you here?" He speaks before I finish as if he could read my mind. I can't help feeling bewildered.

"It's because you collapsed after the battle 3 days ago, your spirit was almost severed from your physical body. I brought you here to perform surgery on your spiritual connection. I didn't expect when I cut open your robes Id find a wrap on your chest. I figured maybe you had been physically hurt too so I removed it to see how badly. I never expected to discover such a secret." I could see his face turn a pink color as he exposed how my secret was discovered.

"Ha-ha you must have dreamt that, you got quite the imagination." I couldn't help laughing what he said off nervously. I don't remember what happened. Images are vague in my head. I remember the ceremony then, think Stacy, blue flames? The image of myself at the moment I had planned to die ran through my head.

"So are you going to tell me what's going on so I know what to report to Masing?" Alastar says getting impatient as he walks to my bed and plucking a yellow flower from a vase sitting on the table stand next to the head of the bed and began twirling it between his long slender fingers staring at it instead of me.

"No you can't do that!" I shout, panic filling my head and heart. I wanted to run I start to move out of the bed without thinking.

"Running wouldn't be smart miss you're not dressed properly to walk out of here." He lifts his chin up turning his head just slightly to looking down at me as I sit on the bed. I feel my blood drain from my face I hate how he knows what I am thinking.

Looking down at myself, now half way out of the bed I hadn't noticed my legs were completely bare. All I had been wearing is a bath robe and my wrap. Wait wrap he said he removed it so how's it on now unless he's bluffing? I look back at him what the hell game is he playing at. I grabbed the sheet and cover up my lower half. If it's a lie, then I can out smart him I'm sure if my wraps on he couldn't have possibly seen for sure. So if I act as normal he will drop the accusations.

"How can you say I'm a girl when my chest is as flat as a board?" I hit my chest with the palm of my hand. Looking at my flat frame there's no way I won't win. It's still so embarrassing though I can feel my cheeks wanting to turn beet red. My heart was racing. "Your jokes gone far enough master. Just because you saw the wrap you wanted to try and stir the pot and make me angry but I am sorry I will not stoop to your fun and games.

"You seem very determined to make me a believer that you are not a girl." He smirks at me as he walks closer making me lean back as he traps me against the edge of the bed. What the hell was he doing?

"Well I'm not!" I say glaring back at him trying to keep some distance.

"Yes you are. Now please put some clothes on." He pushes away from me and turns around. "That figure just makes me more conscious to the fact that I'm alone in the room with a woman half naked and you know I am a man after all, monk or not." My face was rose red now and hot. I could feel it, no need to look in the mirror. I want to hide. I could feel my heart skipping every other beat.

"What do you want with me master Alastar? Why not turn me in now if your so sure? Go ahead tell them that a woman has infiltrated the monastery as a friar." I could feel the frustration in my whole body as I spoke, it shook as I told him to go tell them, but behind my confidence and frustration was fear lingering in my gut as to what might befall me if I was ratted out.

"That's some fire you got, but I won't utter a single word of this. An evil smirk appeared across his face. You're not all better yet you should sit down before something happens." He says trying to sound sincere behind that sinister smile.

"Something... something happens!" I stammer frustrated. "Something already happened" I start yelling. "I was supposed to die three days ago like the rest of the monsters." I was hysteric. "I had planned to die! I wanted to die you idiot!" I could feel the water forming in my eyes.

Truth was I was happy to be alive I was afraid to die. The excitement and fear made me feel light headed, it was hard to breath; I was gasping for air desperately, I thought I was chocking. Everything went black again. I could hear the sound of things clattering and falling around me and a voice calling out. This feeling, it's so warm; it feels so good, and the smell of flowers is intoxicating. I felt at peace like I'm lying in a field of wild flowers with no worries. I'm floating in a sea of endless bliss.