Light in the Dark // Sebastian Sallow

The Power of Knowledge

(Athena)

My eyes refuse to open, I stretch myself out on this extremely comfortable bed. Wait, is that breakfast I smell?

I slowly open my eyes to a bright room, glowing with golds and red hues from the sunrise.

"Sebastian do you smell eggs-" I say looking over my shoulder realizing that Sebastian isn't in here with me.

I smile and get up, bath and dress myself. I make my way down the hallway to find Sebastian cooking eggs, and putting them on plates.

"Ah, I see the goddess herself has decided to grace me with her presence this morning." He says kissing my cheek and putting my plate down in front of me.

"Ha. Ha. Very funny. Where did you find eggs?" I say looking at him curiously.

"Well, since you probably haven't slept in ages. I wanted you to sleep in, so I went on an adventure. I found a small farm just down the way. I don't think they'll mind us eating a few eggs...." He says with that devilish smirk.

I grin up at him "you, Sebastian Sallow. Are trouble." I say winking at him shoveling eggs into my mouth. "Oh my.. Merlin... Sebastian these are amazing. What did you put it them? Also you can cook?" I say with amazement. "I barely even know how to cook."

"Your telling me that I'm actually better at something than you are? Well I'll be damned." He says with a ch"uckle. "Uncle Solomon never really wanted kids or a family. He was perfectly content living a lonely life in his small hut of his. Anne and I usually had to fend for ourselves most nights. So Anne and I we would just create things, of course her cooking was always better... However I am the best eggs maker around." He says smiling at me.

"I didn't know that about Solomon... I'm sorry." I say with a little heart break in my words "You and Anne deserved so much better than that. He was always so horrible to you. Everytime I saw him he was always screaming at you."

Sebastian reaches for my hand and intertwines his fingers gracefully through mine, immediately making my anxiety disappear.

"That night, when I killed him..." Sebastian takes a deep breath "I'm going to be completely honest with you right now, but I would do it again in a heart beat. Im not going to say that I didn't kill him for selfish reasons, I absolutely did....  He not only was going to turn me in, but he would of took you down with me. You have to much good in you to be brought down by some stupid relic... I would throw a thousand killing curses to anyone who is willing to hurt you.  He went after You Athena.... You. He was no saint. I have felt a certain way about this since you and I talked during Christmas. He was a monster, I did the right thing." He says as if a weight has come off his shoulder smiling at me.

I touch his face gently, running my fingers across his sharp bone structure of his cheek. Following his freckles. He pulls me in a kisses me.

We keep our foreheads together and I say "I'm so incredibly proud of you. I'm honored I get to be the wife to the best egg maker in the word." I say giving him a small peck on the lips before pulling away to eat again. "You know you get to make me breakfast for eternity now." I say smiling at him.

He rolls his eyes but smiles at him. "Well, I don't know about that, but I'll do my best for you."

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A Week Later (week 2)

After leaving the house, we continued on our way. We tried to walk as long as we could before finding safe area to enchant and set up a camp sit to rest. We called Ominis and he informed us about most creatures he researched and how to defeat them. Anne still has not woken, they are really worried she won't make it.