And Then There Were Four (Lilith Carrie)

Cassie.

that looked wildly out of place to be within Asgard.

When Silas told me he knew of a place for us to go, I was expecting something fancy or perhaps something that was more... elegant, marble, and who knows what else. What I wasn't expecting though was for him to take us to an old brick building with broken windows Pollux, Trixie, and Sansa decided to stay behind and snoop around the school to see if they could find anything that might be useful. With them looking around, no one would suspect them for doing anything, me, however, they would.

Yet, even though they were busy looking for information, I wished they were here with me. I wanted Pollux to see this building, to see how beautiful and strange the land around it was. One thing about my brother that no one knew but me was his love for history-a love for the past because the past makes us stronger.

The building reminded me of old ruins of castles in a way with its intricate archways and carved designs within the stone. I couldn't help myself when I passed them to reach out and let my fingers brush against the ancient markings. My mind wandered to who these people must have been because it was far older than anything here now.

"Where are we?" I asked softly, my eyes turning to Silas, who smiled down at me with amusement. As if he knew a million secrets and wanted to tell me but didn't know how.

"This is a structure from another realm, one that we no longer speak of because of the battle that commenced there thousands of years ago," he replied as he gazed up at the structure running his own hands against the broken rock. "During the battle, they sought to escape and when the portal was opened, it moved the earth they stood on and anything else around."

understand how anyone could be so powerful that they could move all this earth and

chuckled though as he glanced back at me. "You don't know any of the stories, do

before us. The creek of the wood echoed against the silent air around Silas and me. I found

forward down

and forced myself forward. One thing people didn't know about me was the internal fear I had of darkness. Not that anyone

bottom step. My eyes strained to see through the

torch coming into view as he came around a corner, and once again

I doing? Jesus, like I meant to get

my steps right behind his. There was no way I was going to allow myself to get lost in this

a few minutes of