House of Forbiddens [COMPLETE NOVEL]

17: Everyone is Sleep Deprived

Christine

Yesterday and today was getting to be too much for me. Cloud sisters? Being stabbed? Subsequent magic healing? Audrey, Riley, and Ian getting kidnapped? Performing magic? Getting attacked by Madame? Becoming a prisoner? Losing my parents?

I was so done. If I actually let myself stop and process everything, it wouldn't end well. Today needed to end, and it has already just started. If it didn't, I was gonna lose my mind. But I have priorities, and since Audrey and I don't seem to be in imminent danger, my lack of sleep is starting to get to me. I want to adamantly stay alert, however, at least for this moment. A new boy, who looks to be about our age, had also been locked up along with us. He was blonde, with long hair, and was very quiet. I didn't really know what to think of him. His dirty clothes and fingernails made me wonder what he was doing here, who he was. Was he related to the prophecy? It was the reason we were here, so I assumed so. Audrey had tried to say hello but he had only muttered in reply. I guess he's not much of a conversationalist. Maybe he was having a bad day too. I turned to Audrey, sitting cross-legged against the wall, playing with a pencil.

"Do you have a watch?" I asked her.

"Yup, here." She lifted her wrist and showed it to me. I held mine up in reply.

"I'm really tired, so I'm guessing you are too. Since that guy's locked up just like we are and doesn't seem interested in chatting, I think it's not worth losing sleep over. Wake me up in two hours, okay?" I asked.

"Sounds good," she replied with a nod. At her response, I made a pillow with my jacket, closed my eyes, and drifted off to sleep.

Kaden

As mortified as I was about how Blitzen had attacked Kaden, I was getting more and more unsure about these people. I suppose that two sons of Apollo would look similar- children of Athena did, after all, and sometimes the similarity is surprising- but I'm still a bit mystified. That, along with the other boy's- Ian, I believe?- sword, as well as the strange things going on outside the house made me confident there was much more than meets the eye going on here. I didn't really feel comfortable sleeping just a hallway from all the unfamiliar, secretive people. There was one problem, though- we didn't exactly have a place to stay, so here was better than no where. The three of us quickly made our way to the room Kaden showed us, than she made her way to her own room. We planned on setting a watch, but everyone was asleep before anything could be done.

By: Nightsong