Free The Black Wolf's Mark by Pet Torres

Chapter 4
     
     
    At nightfall, Norton takes his friend to his house after asking him to have dinner at his home and meet his unique family.
    The two youths are walking in the direction of Norton’s house, but before they arrive at the front door, a female voice says from the inside the house, “He is coming!”
     
    Amarilis runs to the door and pushes it with her own body. She also fastens her dark nails up on the door wood trying to impede its opening.
    “Aunt, don’t let him enter!”
    Her aunt makes a grimace as she looks at her niece pushed up against the door.
    “Amarilis, no one is coming here.”
    “He ended up coming here!” the young blind woman affirms still behind the door.
    Lyra abandons the plates on the dining table as soon as she hears knocking from outside the door.
    She walks toward the door and holds her niece’s arms.
    “Who is it?”
    “Mother, it’s me.”
    “Amarilis, it is your male cousin,” she says, her anxiety alleviated.
    “He is not alone.”
    The dark haired young woman becomes alert to the noises behind the door. Lyra pulls Amarilis by the arm and takes her away from the door.
    “Your male cousin needs to come in.”
    The door is opened and Lyra sees her son standing next to a boy with dark hair and ruddy skin. However, she is amazed at her niece’s insistence that she felt somebody was in the company of her male cousin.
    “Mother, this is my new friend Zidane.”
    “Hello, I am − Lyra.”
    She raises her hand and the boy holds it strongly.
    “Happy to meet you, Madam.”
    “Please come in!” says Lyra using her hand to guide the two boys inside.
    They enter into the house and Zidane gazes at the lass in a long black dress with her dark hair and white eyes. She is standing in the middle of the living room.
    Amarilis senses every movement of the boy and at that moment she has a vision of a little boy being marked on his back with an iron lance.
    She glances frightened to all sides, at the roof and also at the ground.
    And her male cousin approaches her with his friend and says in exultation, “This is my female cousin.”
    “It's him!” Amarilis shouts and she runs to her bedroom, but her body slams against a cabinet in the house and throws down some objects.
    Lyra goes after her niece and Norton stares at his friend with bashfulness after the savage attitude of his female cousin before his guest.
    “Pardon Zidane, I forgot to inform you that my female cousin is − blind.”
    “I understand,” Zidan e says after he has looked at the ground, trying to comprehend the unusual attitude of the young woman. He has never seen anyone behave like that before, acting as if he were a ferocious dog.
     
    However, despite this initial awkward moment, the three dine in Amarilis’s absence.  The young woman refuses to dine with the unexpected house guest.  She prefers to remain locked in her humble bedroom.
    Lyra asks the boy many questions during dinner and he looks well disposed to answer all of them.
    After dinner, Zidane takes his leave from his friend’s home; after all he didn’t feel well during the entire dinner, as he was imagining that the blind female cousin of his friend refused dinner because she objected to his presence.
    The two boys step out of the house by the front door and they stop just outside the house.
    “I thank you for dinner.” Zidane finally expresses gratitude while he rests his hands on his waist.
    “I offer my apologies to you once again for my female cousin’s discourteousness.” Norton says after that.
    “Don’t worry, I am not annoyed.”
    “But you were troubled.”
    “Oh, I confess I have never been received this way, being treated like a ferine.”
    “My female cousin, over and above being blind also gets hallucinations, you know!”
    At this instant, Zidane glances at his friend house’s side and sees the white eyes of the young blind woman through the window.
    Even though he knows she is completely blind he still feels she can