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THREE

THREE

Yawning, I blinked my eyes open to see that we most certainly were no longer in the city. We couldn't be with this many trees around.

"We're nearly there," he told me before I could open my mouth.

"Sorry for sleeping on you," I said, pushing myself upright and pulling the sun visor down and opening the mirror to check myself.

"You needed it," was all he replied.

Seeing that I had no drool, and I didn't look too bad, I brushed my hair with my fingers since my hairbrush was in my bag in the boot. I heard a complaining meow from the back seat.

"Hush, Kar, we're nearly there," I told him.

Kar grumbled before meowing again.

Not even five minutes later, we were pulling up to a gate that you wouldn't realise was a gate until you looked closely. It was beautifully decorated in vines and flowers. But it looked so natural, you wouldn't see it like a gate. Unfortunately, it was only now that it hit me, sleeping meant I didn't know where we were. I wouldn't be able to find my way back.

Passing through the gate, I realised that I still didn't know who was driving. Other than saving me, I didn't know who he was. I rolled my eyes, way to go Kyra.

"What's your name?" I asked.

I saw him glance at me. "Edyrm."

"No last name?" I asked after a silence began.

"No last name," he confirmed.

"I'm–"

"Kyra Caser, I know," he said.

"How do you that? I know I haven't told you."

"We heard wind that the drow had found out where you lived. I was sent to follow the group who had caught you and was told to protect you."

"Oh. Why do they want me dead?"

Edyrm pulled to a stop, turning off the engine. "I can't answer that because I don't know. But I've been told to take you to someone do will."

"Who are they?"

Edyrm frowned at me before climbing out. I followed suit as Edyrm opened the back door to my Ford and grabbed Kar's cat carrier.

As I turned to follow Edyrm in, I froze and I was sure my mouth was touching the ground. The mansion, because it was way too big for a house, was one of the most beautiful things I'd ever seen. It was like the gate. It was so clearly there, yet the nature around it hid it from people so easily. There were at least five, maybe more floors. Without the nature around it, it would look like one of those houses on a magazine. But this was also nothing like one of them. It completely blended with the nature. It was almost invisible. Yet, it wasn't.

"It's beautiful," I said in a whisper of awe.

Edyrm looked at me before looking back at the mansion as though trying to see it how I did. But then he gave up and started walking for the building. Blinking, I rushed to catch up. As I followed Edyrm through the building, I stared like a tourist. It was amazing!

Finally, we reached a room with bookshelves on two walls, wall windows on a third, and the fourth was where the door was that we'd just come through, and that wall was painted with such a realistic view of a mountain far in the distance with trees at it's feet that I felt as though I was standing on a cliff looking at the real thing.

It was a cough that made me jump and see that Edyrm and I weren't the only ones in the room. A man with porcelain white skin like my own, sky blue eyes, and silver-white hair that was tied back so tightly, I almost didn't think he had long hair stood in front of us. But it wasn't that that made me stare. What made me stare was the fact that the guy had wings. They were huge, and he didn't even have them spread out, but pressed against his back. His wings, that I could see, were the same colour as the man's hair. They were a silver-white that glistening in the light.