Evelyn Walker (Book One)

Chapter 8 | Relation

My footsteps echoed against the walls. They sounded harsh against the silence of the building.

Most people were out at this moment in the day, doing what they had to do to keep everything going.

On a normal day I would scout the area with my normal team, but today I had 'homeduty' with Alexander, Charlotte and Thomas.

The people who were on homeduty had to watch the building, tracking everybody who came in and went out.

Everybody called the task homeduty, just because of the fact that you almost fell like a child who was being punished by his mother by having to stay inside instead of going out to play with his friends.

Rayne's office, if you could call a room with a bed, a desk and two chairs an office, was at the end of the concrete hallway where all the rooms were located.

His door was always closed, he said it was because he didn't like the noise people made, but more likely he just wasn't the social type.

I knocked twice before entering, expecting to see him sitting behind his wooden desk as always.

Instead he stood by the bed in the corner of the room, looking down at the trousers in front of him.

'One, you're not wearing any pants. And two, if you called me in here to give you advise on what pair of pants to wear for the day, then I'm out.' He looked up with a confused gaze, before shaking his head with a little smile.

'Thanks for the comments, but you're not here to give me clothing advice. And if I did need any advice on that, I would have called Charlotte.'

I clutched my chest with both hands while acting dramatic, 'now you're hurting me.'

After another long minute of watching the pants in front of him, he put some black jeans on. Probably to compliment all the other black clothes he wore.

'I called you in here to discuss something.' He said while seating himself in one of the leather chairs, I took my seat in the other one while keeping an eye on him.

The first thing they learned you in scouting school, was to keep an eye on everything and everyone.

The second thing was to keep your enemies close, but your friends closer. In the end you could only trust yourself.

And the third things was to always bring a clean pair of underwear, wherever you went. You never knew what would happen to your body when things got scary.

As I watched him, I said nothing, because I already knew where this whole conversation was going.

He folded his hands together, whilst he seemed to be searching for the right words to say what he wanted to tell me.

'You're one of my best scout, you know that,'

'Thank you for the compliment, but please get to the subject of this whole conversation.' I knew my voice already sounded irritated, but it wasn't something that scared him anymore.

He sighed before continuing, 'I want you to lead a new scouting mission, you can choose your own people, as long as you leave in the morning.'

Alright, I could handle that. I had done various scouting missions, and I liked doing them, but I had the feeling he was holding something back.

'I can do that. But was is it that you're not telling me?'

'You will have to infiltrate inside The Mansion.'