𝗕𝗟𝗢𝗢𝗗 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘 𝗣𝗢𝗜𝗦𝗢𝗡 ➳ 𝗟𝗘𝗚𝗔𝗖𝗜𝗘𝗦

xii.

FAITH, HOPE, ALARIC, AND DORIAN walked through the forest as Alaric held a crossbow. They all meet up together at the sound of the new monster alarm that was tripped and was going to find out what the latest threat would be.

"I knew this was important, but you couldn't have put pants on first?" Hope asked referring to Alaric who was still in a robe.

"It's a little early for snark, Hope." He replied evenly.

"Any guesses on what famous monster from Filmland we get to slay today?" Dorian asked.

"Voldemort?" Faith shrugged shortly. "That'd be cool right?"

They all stared at her for a moment and she once again shrugged. "You have seriously got to stop watching Harry Potter," Alaric muttered.

"It's my safe place." Faith defended. "I mean a secret world of magic? How unbelievable is that?" They gave her another look and this time she was a small and meek 'Oh... right.'

They heard a horse sputter and Dorian lightly chuckled, "False alarm. It's just a horse."

"Must've gotten out of the stables and wandered across the barrier spell," Alaric said.

"Except we don't have a white horse." Hope realized.

The horse turned around and then they saw the horn atop its head. Making them gasp. The horse started to approach them and Alaric held his crossbow up prepared to fire.

"Hey, wait, wait," Hope said standing in the line of fire. "Hold your fire."

"It's a monster, Hope." Dorian pointed accusingly at it. "It's here to take the artifact."

"Come on," Faith said standing beside her sister so that they could focus on what she was saying instead of trying to shoot a harmless animal. "You just can't shoot a unicorn! It's a unicorn! You can't seriously suggest we kill it."

"I'm suggesting we don't give it a pass because it's cute," Dorian argued.

"Can't we just..." Hope sighed out. "like, leave it alone? It's trapped it's not going anywhere. It harmless." Faith nodded her head agreeing with her sister.

Alaric and Dorian looked at each other for a moment before Alaric spoke again. "Hope's right. As long as we keep it alive, other creatures won't be coming for the urn. So we just stay alert and let it be."

"All right, well," Dorian shook his head. "I'll be on alert back in bed." Then he walked away.

Faith took one last glance at the unicorn before she, Alaric, and Hope left to go back to bed.

-

FAITH SAT UP IN HER BED AND stretched out her arms with a smile on her face. She was in an extremely good mood and she didn't know why, nor did she care.

Getting ready to start her day with a grin on her face the whole time she went into the main hall where she saw Noah, Kaleb, and M.G.

Noah was resting his crossed feet on the table while he was sitting, while Kaleb was sitting normally just slouched in his chair, and M.G. just settled for resting his head on the table lazily.

Faith took a seat next to Noah smiling brightly. "Hey, boys." She sang cheerily.

This greeting from her baffled all of them leading them to do a double-take. "Hey..." Noah slowly drawled out finally putting his feet on the floor and turning toward her slightly. "Are you okay? I feel like I should be very worried right now." He raised an eyebrow at her as he said this.

Before Faith had a chance to respond Kaleb bet her to it. "Yeah, you're not acting bitchy today," Kaleb said ignoring the slight glower he got from Noah sitting across from him. "What's up?"