Wingless ~Book Two of Winged~

Breakfast

I get up early before Etheriel and Nathan get up and I pull out my bottom drawer, retrieving the book. I crawl back into bed and place the book in front of me, carefully opening the book to the first page. I run my hand across the page, feeling how brittle the paper is. I flip to the middle of the book and look at the symbols I believe are Enochian. I flip through some of the pages and see sketches of some types of plants on some of the pages. On one page, there is a sketch of a moon and I carefully run a finger over the drawing. I wish I could read what is on these pages. I come to a page that seems like a list or recipe and I stop a second, looking at a sticky note attached to the page in the same language, before continuing on through the book. I freeze on a page with a detailed drawing of a knife. The same knife I found wrapped up in the locked drawer. There is also a sticky note attached with a set of coordinates written on it. I quickly get up and search my room for the phone Michael got me when I first moved here. I type in the coordinates on a map app and it takes me to a very small island that isn't even visible until very close. It doesn't even have a name. I look back at the knife, is that where he got it from? I hear someone move around downstairs and I quickly stand, slamming the book shut, and putting it back where I hid it. I slide the drawer back where it belongs then stand up, going to my door. I should tell Etheriel about the book. I make my way downstairs. I hear someone in the kitchen so I go straight there to see Dominic messing with the stove. He glances back at me and smiles.

"Morning." He turns on the gas stove, putting a pan above the flames. He turns back to me and slowly backs me up against the wall, trapping me and smiling down at me. "How did you sleep?" he questions, tilting his head slightly.

"Good..." I reply and I remember what he said last night about the girl his brother killed. His smile falters as he quickly turns back to the pan and begins to put pieces of uncooked bacon into it. Was he in love with that girl? What went through his mind when he found her body? Etheriel glances in the kitchen, looking back at me when he notices I am here. Something barely noticeable tugs at my heart lightly as he stares at me.

"How are you?" he steps fully into the kitchen, still staring at me. I think about the book under my bottom drawer and then I think about the books at Nathan's apartment.

"I'm good... What were those piles of books at Nathan's apartment for?" Etheriel seems a little shocked at the question and glances at Dominic.

"Dominic didn't tell you?" I shake my head and look at Dominic who turns to look at me. "Dominic gave us a list of ingredients and wanted us to find what Mihael could use them for besides poisoning. Nathan has been slowly going through them, translating them, trying to find anything that uses those ingredients." Etheriel replies. I slowly nod and think about the books in Michael's office. They could have something helpful, possibly. The smell of bacon drifts towards me and I turn to Dominic to see he is back to cooking bacon.

"I found a book in Enochian and several other books in Michael's office." I blurt random and Dominic spins around to look at me.

"Show me." Etheriel says and Nathan walks in with the home phone in his hand.

"That was Mihael; he said he will be coming back tomorrow night." We all look at him and Etheriel slowly smiles, making me confused. Why is he happy that Michael is coming back so soon?

"Trinity, found some books of Mihael's." Nathan starts to smile too, looking at me. That is why he was smiling.

"Really? Where?" Nathan asks.

"I'll go get them." I turn and hurry up to my room where I retrieve the key to Michael's office and the big book from under my bottom drawer. I enter the office and start grabbing other books until I can't carry anymore, then I take them downstairs where when Nathan turns to look at me his eyes widen.