Fallen Stars

Chapter 3

CATHERA

Silence stood in the whole house for hours when I continued having tea. The timberwork of the ceiling was the one thing I looked at while contemplating life to ride with the silence. Even the insects outside were bizarrely silent.

I heard a knock at the door that broke the silence.

"Coming." I yelled as I stood up delicately while walking towards the door, cleaning the little dust from my seat that stuck on the butt of the dress' skirt.

Another knock was heard. "Don't get rushed. I'm already walking towards you." I mumbled, looking at the floor before opening the door.

It was the mailman. With his brown clothing, from his dirty beret down to his trousers, he wore a white inner shirt covered by a brown polo.

"Letter for Cathera Silverheart," he asked while pulling out a folded note from his shoulder bag hanging on his waist then offered it to me.

"Oh, thank you," I replied pleasantly, smiling at him with my eyes squinting. I bowed as he left me before closing the door with a soft kick and quickly unfolding the note's paper while walking away from the door.

It was from a friend. Shayne.

I deliberately covered my mouth with the other hand. It says here that a dearest friend of hers and mine has passed away.

'Cathera,

I am here to deliver news that my second cousin and also my, closest friend Tom has passed away. As quick as it may appear to be. Sorrow envelopes the whole family of the Greyhames and Dunninghams. I understand if Tygron, your brother won't allow you to come here but I am in need of a company of a close friend I only have left. One that can treat me as my own family better than the genuine one that I had but does not appear to be. I hope for your presence anytime.

, Shayne'

I went upstairs, closed the door of my room, and directly sat on the bed with the note in my hand. I looked at the timberwork of the ceiling teemed with webs. The note sent me into another storm of thoughts.

Why is Tygron strictly disallowing me from going out of the house or the neighbourhood and exploring the walled city? That is why I don't know much from the outside except Kingston and his wife, Shayne. Also, Sergei, their most annoying friend. They are the only people I know much about it annoys me.

Tygron's nightmares are worrying me. Every time Tygron was wailing and talking to himself while he was asleep, I had this cold feeling.

I'm worried that something terrible is around, stalking the house every night. He's been having nightmares for the last twelve years it's bothering me.

Ignoring the thought, I reached for the handle bedside table's drawer and opened it. I saw the old book he read me before. Starfall, the only book I know that is as old as I am. Its brownish dirty pages could get torn anytime you open it. Serving as a memory of the past that we don't want to leave behind; this book was all we had.

I went to open it and read it for another time. I opened it lightly and slowly to prevent it from crumbling while shifting pages to continue reading the book on Story number 42.

"The castle above the sky was built for protection." Written on it.

"For below it, on the earth were creatures and beasts that is no creation of the great is feeding on men. The celestials were tasked to slay these attempts and these beasts for men cannot get killed though unknown forces battling prevent these creatures from neither getting extinct nor destroying all of humanity."