Fallen Stars

Chapter 17

TYGRON

I remained on the table still contemplating on where the two had been. I'm already starting to worry about my sister. The fact that she never left home at midnight and the witch that was here baffles me. What if she did something to my sibling?

A candle faced me as my elbows rested on the table. My hands held as my nose rested on top of it. A weak single candle was placed on a candelabra. The other two candles I placed on each side of the candelabra remained unlit. I then noticed soft neighing and tapping of horseshoes.

Hearing it, I went to reach out and light the other two candles.

I could hear the indistinct chatting of the two outside, Kingston and Sergei.

I then heard three knocks on the wooden door of the house. I stood up and went to open it as soon as the other two candles were lit.

"You both are finally here," I said as I opened the door, seeing Kingston right outside the doorstep. Sergei is still a few feet away, approaching. "Did you see Cathera?" I added, concerned.

"Huh, wouldn't she be right here this time of night?" Sergei replied as he got closer to the door.

"Even Shayne was nowhere to be found," Kingston said further before I finally gestured for us to get in.

"Where is Cathera and Shayne then? Getting together but leaving us moon-watching here?" Sergei said as they stepped inside the house with him scanning the timberwork of the house's ceiling.

"I don't know. Cathera didn't even leave anything or even cook something," I said as I went to the dining table and stood in front of it, looking at the steel candelabra.

"I thought she'd cook here because I'm craving," Sergei sat on the chair facing the diner.

"We should start it," Kingston said as he stood in the centre.

"What was that book, that Shayne found?" I looked at Sergei. He started pulling the book out of his coat and, surprisingly, I didn't notice it there. About the fact that it was as wide as a dinner plate.

"Here," He placed it on the table and opened the first page. It felt ominous as he opened it.

'Book of the Unseen Beasts' written on the front page. Below the title was the illustration of a reptile-dog-like beast, the one we saw last night attacking Patrick. Kingston and I stared at each other, he looked like he was thinking about something when he saw the sketch of the beast below the title making me quickly look back again at the old book.

"This book is messed up," Sergei commented as he scanned the book's contents.

I was the one who opened another page and on it we saw a scary-looking deer with its horns of a ram, twisting spirally and not like branches like a real deer. Around the creepy sketch were ancient runic languages that we can't understand but there are boxes of scattered text around the page, small and large.

'Fletid' was written as a translation of its name and we just flipped to another page.

The next page was just a turn full of unreadable text making us flip to another page.

The next page shows another creature named 'Kradthon'. A skeleton-looking creature that was almost human. It doesn't have eyes and has long arms making its small torso disproportionate. On a translation below the name is written in red saying 'ONLY APPEARS in the dark.'

"Appears? Like suddenly show up?" Sergei asked.

"This is not I think what we're looking for," I said, the one who flipped another page Sergei frowned at me because he was still reading.