𝗕𝗟𝗢𝗢𝗗 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘 𝗣𝗢𝗜𝗦𝗢𝗡 ➳ 𝗟𝗘𝗚𝗔𝗖𝗜𝗘𝗦

x.

FAITH HAD SHOWN NOAH THE MEMORY of the talk both of them had when they went to find Landon. She just thought it wouldn't be fair for her to know something so personal about him and let him not even know he told her about it.

So for a while everything at the Salvator boarding school went back to normal.

"How long do you think it will be before the next monster shows up?" Hope asked Alaric as she and her sister sat in his office.

2:00 a.m.

"It's hard to say," Alaric said. "I've never actually seen an artifact glow before."

"First time for everything I guess." Faith yawned rubbing her eyes.

"Where did you hide the urn, by the way?" He directed his question to Hope.

"I'm not sure I should tell you." She answered.

"Excuse me?" Alaric sounded very much offended.

"In this case, I have to agree with Hope," Faith told Alaric. It made the most sense actually.

"Isn't it safer if only one of us knows where it is?" Hope responded.

"Well then that one of us should be the adult," Alaric argued.

"Funny," Hope grinned. Faith laid her head down on the desk as she continued to listen to Alaric and Hope. "Because I thought it should be the one of us with high-level superpowers."

"I do too," Faith muttered not bothering to lift her head up. "Doesn't that mean I should know?"

"You can't use your magic." Hope stated matter-of-factly. "What do we tell everyone else?" She asked Alaric. "We should probably warn them before a cyclops crashes exam week."

"It's usually best to start with some form of the truth." Alaric picked up a piece of paper.

"What about those times when the truth is the one thing you can't say." Hope questioned referring to the secret she was keeping from Landon.

"Are you sure you want to keep all of this from Landon?" Alaric asked her.

Faith lifted her head at that and wondered just what her sister was going to say. It must have been a choice that was tearing her apart from the inside to keep something like this from someone she cared so much about.

"I mean, I understand you wanting to protect him, but..."

"He's been wondering about his mother his whole life," Hope said sadly. "He finally meets her and then she dies. If I can keep him from knowing what that feels like, then it's worth it. Look, it's my secret to keep, Dr. Saltzman. Please."

"Okay."

"Thank you." Hope mumbled.

"The trick is to give everyone the right amount of information without giving away too much." Alaric started. "We've been through this before with the knife, so it shouldn't come as too much of a shock. This is our chance to do things differently, more responsibility."

"Oh, fun." Faith smiled sarcastically.

-

"YESTERDAY, I CAME INTO POSSESSION of another Malivore artifact," Alaric said to the crowd of students who were present for the emergency meeting. This was becoming a regular occurrence at this point, Faith thought. "It was my hope to find a method of containment before it signaled another monster, but given the emergency meeting I've just called, I'm sure you can guess how well that went."

"Do you see Hope anywhere?" Faith heard Landon ask as he looked up at Rafael who only shook his head no. He then turned to look at Faith who shrugged.

She didn't want to tell Landon that Hope was ghosting him because she knew something that would absolutely break his heart. It wasn't her place anyways.