The Girl in the Emerald Coat and the Invisible Boy

Chapter 10

Aghhhhh! If I write this right, I should have some sad comments soooo, tell me what you are thinking,

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I would like to tell you all something, if you are trying to keep a secret, do not send it to anyone. Because people find out, they always do. And by the time you have set your letter, there is nothing you can do about it, nothing at all.

And so I admit, it is hard to tell you all of this, because it changed everything. But I might as well just get it over with.

Before, I mentioned a letter. Well, it would have been better if Elsa had received it. But sadly, that isn't how this part of the story goes. I must admit, I don't believe that Kurt Rein is a bad man, even now. He was curious, and worried about his young daughter, who disappeared every night, into the darkness, that he thought might consume her whole one day, she might not come back. So, he read the latest letter she had received from her elder brother, I don't believe she ever did get it. But that doesn't really matter.

The line that probably stuck out would be,

'It's nice to hear you have made friends with those two children in the alley way.'

The thing was, Elsabeth never did talk to her father about children she met in the alleyway, and she hadn't even told her brother the entire story. She promised she hadn't.

That morning Elsa told Kai it was 17th of April 1943, they were both sixteen years old, and Lila was 13.

During the day they did what they always did, Lila would hum happy little tunes, while Elsa and Kai drew beautiful pictures, pictures they never showed each other, not once in the four years they had been friends. They showed Lila, she thought they were absolutely beautiful.

Hours passed, quickly as they always did, and it was soon well past the time Elsa was meant to be at home, but for once Elsa didn't care. Time continued to pass, until it was well into the night. It grew dark quicker than normal and soon anyone could tell it was going to pour down. Sooner than expected the heavens opened, letting down a lakes worth of water. Kasper took his sheets of paper and in a flash was racing across the alley into the little house they sheltered within, Elsa went to follow after him, only stopping in the hallway of the ancient house, she had her emerald eyes closed tight, respecting Kai's wishes not to be seen.

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Lila sat alone in the alley way, her dark brown hair was soaked through in only a few moments, and it stuck to her face in an unpleasant way. Her brown eyes flickered sideways towards the door where her brother was inside. Then everything that had once stood a proud tower, fell apart at the seams.

In the night anyone could hear a young child's screams, the type of screams that were meant to bring help, to protect oneself, to express total and utter terror. And that is all Lila Schatten wanted to do.

Elsa without a second thought threw open her emerald eyes, catching a glimpse of Kasper's figure before her, but not caring enough to look any further. She turned around and ran for the door, she pushed against it, it smashed into something, a man with the blood red symbol on the arm.

There were three large men, all of whom had guns on them. But Elsa didn't seem to care at all, she ran toward the young lame legged girl who was held in a large man's arms. And then she felt someone throw their arms around her, pulling her off the ground.

The man held her up, carefully, almost as if they didn't want to hurt her. He had his arms wrapped around her waist, keeping her arms pinned to Elsa's sides. That man, if I remember rightly was far bigger than any of the others, he carried Elsa's weight as if it was nothing, and Elsa was quite a normal size.