Chronicles of Eden - Act 2 (96 page)

“Do you have anything else to add? Anything else you want to say? I hope so, because my sisters are absolutely loving this little show of yours, of course not in the way you were hoping I’m sure,” she mocked with a twitch of her eyebrow. Daniel nodded slowly as he looked around at the crowd, seeing all the witches laughing at him while Kroanette was slowly shaking her head.

“I suppose I have my answer, this is what you witches want, isn’t it? To be left alone, to do as you please, and to be called the
letchyasks
of the world!” he called out, with the crowd then slowly falling silent as all the witches watched the human that just called them that name with discontent. Charlotte slowly walked up to him as her wand’s gemstone glowed softly, with Apoch and Astreal getting back up with their staves while glaring at the human.

“What was that?” Charlotte inquired sharply.

“Well? Am I wrong? Isn’t this the life you want, my grace? Isn’t this the life you want for all witches in Eden? To be alone in the world, to have to murder and deceive those around them to merely have a daughter, to be considered
letchyasks
to humans and monsters in Eden for how you all behave,” Daniel scoffed.

“Are you calling my sisters, myself even, a
letchyask
?” Charlotte demanded with anger.

“I’m calling you what you wish to be called, what you don’t mind the world seeing you as. My grace, witches the world over murder humans, bewitch humans, lie to humans, and treat humans like inferior beings, what do you think would be a better word to describe such unsavory, such despicable, such horrific behavior other than
letchyask
?” Daniel questioned. Charlotte showed a bitter smile and aimed her wand at the boy.

“Your words have gone from being humorous to rather unpleasant, I don’t know why I should bother letting you speak any further,” she hissed.

“Then just answer one question, why can’t witches and humans live together in peace?” Daniel asked.

“Humans and monster can never live together,
boy
, that will never change,” Charlotte snapped.

“You didn’t answer the question, you merely avoided it yet again,” Daniel called out, with Charlotte growling quietly as the boy turned to face her with a firm expression.

“If you really know for a fact why humans and monsters can’t live together in peace, then say it; tell me why what I believe could be a better life for both our races can never happen. I’m not here to plead for my life, or to justify the blood that’s been spilled in the past by humans and witches, I’m here to help give those girls a future!” he yelled out as he pointed off to the crowd. The witches looked at him with confusion while Charlotte merely raised an eyebrow at Daniel.

“What do you mean a future?” she asked.

“I don’t want them to have to live in a world where they’re treated so harshly and condemned merely because they’re monsters! I don’t want them to have to lie or murder or use force to have a daughter in life! I don’t want them to be known as
letchyasks
to anyone anymore! My grace, I’m standing here asking you why our kind has to keep fighting when they don’t have to!” Daniel declared boldly. The witches in the crowd looked to each other then to Daniel with curious eyes while Charlotte shook her head at the boy.

“Because we are monsters and you are humans, because raping you and taking your seeds is the only way to ensure our survival, because killing your fighters is the only way to get what we need from you, because we do what we must to live on!” Charlotte shouted out.

“You’re wrong, you don’t have to rape humans, you don’t have to kill in order to have a daughter; you don’t have to do any of what you’re saying!” Daniel argued.

“Yes we do, we’re monsters! No human will ever mate with us willingly, are you that blind to not see such an obvious truth? This is how it is for all monsters, how it is for witches around the world. Nothing can ever change that, especially not the foolish dreams of an idiotic human such as yourself!” Charlotte shot back with a stern expression.

“You’re wrong, humans can willingly mate with witches, you don’t have to force them, you don’t have to draw blood to get pregnant!” Daniel debated.

“No, they won’t! I told you before, and I’ll tell you again, no human in the world will ever willingly fuck us! Look around you; we’re magical monsters that look like human children! Not a single witch will ever find a man to give her a seed unless she takes it from him however she can!” Charlotte shouted while waving around at the crowd.

“You can if you don’t rape them, if you don’t kill their families, if you stop lying and stealing and manipulating them. You don’t have to act like monsters to get a daughter, you don’t have to act that way to live in this world,” Daniel said shaking his head.

“We
are
monsters! This is how it works, either we take what we need from you by force, or we get nothing at all! For the last time, no human will ever give a witch his seed on his own free will!” Charlotte shouted while stomping her foot.

“I know that’s not true, because I would!” Daniel yelled out, with the crowd then looking at him with wonder from that along with Kroanette. Apoch and Astreal glanced to each other then looked back to Daniel questionably as Charlotte watched him with a careful eye.

“I would mate with a witch, or any other monster in this world! I would choose any girl, human or monster, to love and to be with, to marry and have a family with, as long as they were kindhearted! If I could do it then so could my people!” Daniel declared assertively. The witches among the crowd started whispering to each other with hushed murmurs while Charlotte just watched Daniel with a dull stare.

“No, you wouldn’t,” she argued shaking her head.

“I would,” Daniel asserted.

“No, you
wouldn’t
,” Charlotte said sternly.

“Yes, I would,” Daniel argued while crossing his arms.

“No, you WOULDN’T!” Charlotte yelled out.

“Yes, I would! I don’t judge others by their outer appearance, I don’t discriminate by what they are, and I certainly don’t victimize them just for following their inner nature!” Daniel shouted back. Charlotte looked at him with a scoff as he shook his head and gazed around at the crowd that was watching him with curious eyes now.

“Monsters need to breed, they have to, it’s what their bodies tell them to do, it can’t be helped; it’s just their inner nature. Well just because a monster is compelled to breed, just because they’ve followed their instincts and did what they deemed to be right for their own survival, that doesn’t make them evil. I don’t deem monsters to be evil just because they wish to breed, there’s nothing wrong with them wishing to do so, that’s how they are,” Daniel stated firmly. He then looked back to Charlotte as the witch watched him with a cautious expression.

“As long as the girl, human or monster, is kindhearted, isn’t a murdering creature that has no regard for life around her, and isn’t just interested in getting my pants off, then I could love them, I could be with them in life, I could have a family with them, on my own free will,” he stated assuredly. Kroanette watched Daniel with wonder then slowly stepped forward.

“Daniel,” she said carefully, with everyone looking to her as she approached the boy.

“Are you saying that, if a centaur, not me mind you, would be ‘kindhearted’ and nice to you, then you would find her, not me of course, to be attractive and even wish to mate with her, again not talking about me here, but her?” she asked carefully. Daniel nodded and smiled kindly at her.

“If a centaur, you or any other, was a kindhearted girl, and we truly felt a connection with one another, then of course we could be together,” he answered.

“You would? But, Daniel, look at me, I mean look at what a centaur looks like, we have the lower body of a horse. That would mean you would have to have sex with… with a monster like us. You would really do that?” Kroanette asked with shock.

“Kroanette, you’re a not a monster to me, you’re a very attractive woman,” Daniel pointed out, with the centaur jumping back with a squeak before shaking her head with a blush.

“I’m not talking about me! I’m talking about centaurs in general, I just said that, remember? Not me, not me at all, I’m just asking a hypothetical question!” she cried out. Daniel chuckled and shrugged as he saw the centaur getting flustered.

“Well, if the centaur in question was attractive like you, and we became very close, then I would consider her a perfect candidate to be my mate,” he reasoned. Kroanette looked to him with wonder then down while holding hand to her cheek as her blush slowly vanished.

“Are you serious? Even though centaurs look like this, you wouldn’t mind?” she asked.

“No, I wouldn’t,” Daniel answered, and then turned to Charlotte with a sympathetic smile while Kroanette glanced back up to him with a curious eye.

“You said before that no man would want to have sex with you because of how you look, that no man would willingly mate with you because you look like a little girl. Well, you’re not a little girl, you’re a witch, and far older than even myself am. There’s a difference between a human child and a witch, and I know that difference, I don’t see you as a child at all,” he assured. Charlotte eyed Daniel over briefly then tilted her head with a quizzical expression.

“Are you saying that you would actually mate with a witch? You would actually give a witch your seed on your own accord?” she asked carefully.

“I’m saying, that if a witch was kindhearted, and we came to know each other very well, I would of course see her as a promising candidate to be my mate,” Daniel answered. Charlotte watched him carefully for a moment then slowly smiled and shook her head.

“No, you wouldn’t,” she argued.

“Yes, I would,” Daniel said nodding. Charlotte stared at him with bewilderment for a moment then slowly looked down while eyeing her wand.

“So, if a witch was ‘kindhearted’ to you, you would actually take her as your mate in life? Even though she looks like a little child, even though she may have done some very, very,
very
bad things in her life, you would willingly take her to bed with you?” she questioned before glancing back up to him.

“Let me make something clear, if a witch were to be kindhearted in life, then I would hope she wouldn’t have anything very, very,
very
bad to speak of in her life. However, as I also said before, I don’t judge monsters from what they did in their past by following their nature. That being the case, should a witch prove to me that they could control themselves around men, that they would not harm my people, that they truly cared about me and not just wanted to use me to get pregnant with, then yes, I would see her as a lovely woman all the same as any other,” Daniel replied assuredly. Charlotte stared at him in silence for a while then walked away while looking around at the crowd of witches.

“Did you hear that? He says if we’re nice he’ll be just fine with having sex with a witch. I don’t know about you, but I’m having trouble believing him. What do you think?” she called out, getting only loud hecklings and hisses from the crowd in response while the witches scoffed and glared at Daniel. Charlotte nodded then snapped her fingers in the air, the sound echoing out like a deafening clap that silenced everyone, then slowly looked back to Daniel while shaking her head.

“Sorry, but we just don’t believe such a thing. You talk big, but the truth is we just can’t see you actually doing a witch on your own free will,” she reasoned with a shrug. Daniel sighed then rolled up his sleeve, the witches watching as he slid off Kroanette’s bracelet and tossed it over to her. The centaur caught it with a surprised jump then looked at him with wonder as he rolled his sleeve down and looked to the alpha with a calm expression.

“Do you agree or not, that witches would have an easier time surviving if mankind welcomed them in their cities and kingdoms rather than forcing them to live out in the outerlands like this, if they treated them like equal citizens of Eden?” he asked as he started walking towards Charlotte.

“What are you doing?” the alpha asked as she turned to face him.

“Do you agree or not, that witches would have an easier time getting pregnant if they didn’t have to use force and trickery to get a man to be with them, that if mankind accepted them the prospect of having actual husbands in their lives would make having a family much easier for them?” Daniel questioned, with the witches in the crowd looking to each other with confusion from that.

“Did you really just remove your only protection from me?” Charlotte laughed as she shook her head at the boy.

“Do you agree or not, that your numbers are dwindling, not just from humans being your enemies but also from other monsters that prey upon you witches out in the wild, attacking and killing you while nobody comes to your aid?” Daniel accused. Charlotte looked at the boy cautiously as he walked up to her and crossed his arms.

“Do you agree, or not, that there could be benefit for both our races if we try to live together in peace?” he asked firmly. Charlotte smirked and aimed her wand at him, the boy keeping his eyes focused on her while Kroanette bit her lip nervously as she watched the human standing before the alpha with no fear or any kind of magical protection.

“What are you thinking approaching me like that without your little enchanted bracelet?” Charlotte mused.

“I told you, I’m not here to plead for my life, I’m not here to fight you, I’m not here to trick you, I’m here to ask you an honest question, and even though witches are known to be deceptive and misleading, that they lie and manipulate others with their magic as they please, I will not hide or cower before you with this. I stand before you on my own free will. So, answer me,
Charlotte
, can there really be no peace between our races? Is this truly the life you wish for your people?” Daniel demanded.

Silence filled the plaza as Charlotte just stared at Daniel while having her wand aimed at him, the boy waiting for her answer while the witches around the area also waited to see what their alpha would do. Charlotte tilted her head slightly while keeping her wand pointed at the human, her fingers lightly drumming on the wood for a moment before she giggled to herself.