When I woke up, I found myself unharmed. But Vivian...

Vivian...

I couldn't look at her. I should have never allowed her to touch my necklace. And why was I still alive? I had ordered it to kill me! 

"I'll go get help," I said faintly, "Don't tell them what happened, okay? We can say we were attacked, like everyone else in the family..."

Without awaiting a response, I dashed through the door and shut it behind me. "Someone - help!" I yelled, looking for the nearest guard. "Help! Vivian has been badly hurt!"

I directed the first guard I encountered back to grandmother's room, tears clouding my vision. If no one else had died after everything she had been through...

[i]I told you to kill me! Do it![/i] I cried mentally, pleading with the necklace. Surely it could at least grant me the solace of death! I could take any more of this... all this death...