And Then There Were Four (Lilith Carrie)

Cassie.

A few days of going to the secret library Silas had brought me to hadn't brought me any closer to figuring out how to help Lucas. However, I learned a lot about Anna. Including just how close Silas was to her when he came to Asgard to begin with. "So you were her guard?" I asked, staring at Silas, who walked around the library tossing an old brown ball up in the air before catching it.

"Yep, it was my first job here. It wasn't exactly what I had expected... when I came here she had already been here for a long time. I was young and rebellious. I hated the world because of how I was treated, and she saw something in me others didn't." "But... that doesn't make sense. She would have been ancient by then-"

"Around seven hundred years old to be exact," he hummed as his eyes twinkled with amusement.

I was astounded. From the stories, she was supposed to be human or so I thought, but then lived that long. It didn't make any sense. "How, though?"

"How was she that old?"

of Odin's creations, Cassie. She was a descendant of one of

some of the stuff he did but this... I had never heard before. Odin's wolves were famous, and the entire reason our species was created. In order to protect the wolves hunted by humans, Odin bestowed his wolves

have found in a scroll on one

bestowed a gift on her

died, and she wanted death as well. Her anger consumed her, making her hate the life she was given. However, Odin wouldn't let her give up on life. He knew she had more to offer

crest, the corner of my lips, l rolled my eyes and went back to trying to read the faded writing on the parchment. However, the words were

her immortal until she

down. "This is Anna's journal from her last year here. When you have time, you should read

was beautiful, and my mind was curious to know what she had to say but right now, I had more important things