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?"

his smile widened, "Anna was one of Odin's creations, Cassie. She was a descendant of

and 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 to gift them with the ability to turn into to humans to hide amongst the same men

I whispered looking back down to the painting of her I have found in a scroll on one of the many bookshelves. "That still doesn't explain

bestowed a gift on

children. When she came here, three of her children had 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 so he made her

lips, l rolled my eyes and went back to trying to read the

immortal until she appreciated

toward me, laying it down. "This is Anna's journal from her last year

my mind