Part 13 - Shared Secrets

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It has been two weeks since I started reading the bestiary and completed it three days ago. I spent any time I had spare time reading it, learning it. In terms of my supernatural abilities, I have made some progress. I can glow my eyes, get fangs and claws and able to produce fire with my hand. Whenever my hands are on fire, it feels weird, like it is supposed to hurt, yet it doesn't

The Glade was buzzing with chatter this morning, everyone eager for the new Greenies arrival. I was hanging out with Frypan in the kitchen, washing the dishes after breakfast. The alarm went off, as if it was like clockwork, everyone dropped what they were doing and ran to the box. I followed too along with Frypan. We both got to the front waiting for the box to arrive. After two minutes of metal clacking, the box finally opened its roof, leaving us to greet the newest arrival. Gally and another builder opened the box's wired doors and Gally jumped down to greet the Greenie. I couldn't see due to the Greenie being in the corner. Gally helped him out and they were both next to me now. He stood up and I finally got a good look at him. He is quite tall with wavy short brown hair, brown eyes and a sharp jawline, honestly quite attractive.

 He is quite tall with wavy short brown hair, brown eyes and a sharp jawline, honestly quite attractive

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(This is what he looks like ^) 

As the Greenie examined in the surrounding area, his fists clenched in distress. He turned around and his eyes landed on me. Despite not knowing him, I felt a connection with him. Like we had a shared secret. All of a sudden, his once-brown eyes glowed, a bright yellow hue. As if by instinct, my eyes flared in response. After a moment his eyes died down, mine following soon after. 

'Welcome to the Glade, Greenie. My name's Alby.' said the dark-skin boy startling me in the process

When did he get there?

'Where am I? Who are you people?' asked the boy with a surprising calm tone

'Would you mind showing the Greenie around? You deserve the day off; you have been working too much.' Alby turned to me and whispered, ignoring the Greenies question. I nodded my head in response.

'Come on Greenie. I will show you around.' I told the taller boy. As the Gladers dispersed, returning to their jobs, it turned the Greenie. 

'I'm Y/n. Do you know your name yet? Remember anything?' I questioned in a curious tone

'My name is Ace. Other than that, I don't remember anything' he replied

I was shocked. Usually the 'do you know your name?' question is for people to acknowledge their lack of memory. I thought everyone remembered their name after a couple of hours or days, not minutes.

'Ace? Ace. That has a nice ring to it.' I said, trying to lighten the mood

'Why, thank you very much' he said in a ridiculous accent, joking in response. Beside the whole glowing eyes saga before, I could tell we were going to be good friends. 

'Ok well, time to show you around.' I showed Ace around the Glade, the same way Alby showed me. I showed him all the important place and people. I mentioned the three rules and told him about the maze. By the end, we were both exhausted, so we sat down, back leaning up against a log on the edge of the central part of the Glade. We kept talking about random klunk, reminding of my first day with Chuck, when we did the exact same thing. 

'So before, after I got out of the box, both of our eyes glowed. Now, I don't think that is something normal people do, so what are we?' questioned Ace, I could tell this question had been in his mind all day

'Honestly, I'm still figuring it out myself. Basically, I'm a hellhound. I can produce fire and heat from my body and can sense where someone is going to die.'

'How did you find out what you were?'

'I had these dreams that were actually memories one night. In the memory, I was carrying a dead body, and I placed it down, then my body set on fire. I woke up with my eyes glowing a deep orange. I went back to sleep and told Fry about the dream and everything. He told me that I was a hellhound. He has this book; it is like an encyclopedia for supernatural creatures. He showed me the hellhound pages and I learnt about myself. Every day, I have been going to the forest and practising my supernatural abilities.'

'Does anyone else know?'

'No. Only you and Fry. I haven't told anyone else. I'm scared they will banish me if they found out. Do you know what you are?'

'I have no clue. All I know how to is this.' His eyes glowed the yellow colour again but this time he had fangs and claws.

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