The Angel Keeper.

THE KEEPER

"What is this brown mushy gross stuff?" Maggie asked grossed out by it. "That's mud." Cassie said happily laughing knowing how much her friend hated getting dirty and then splashed some on her. "EEWWWWWW GETIT OFF GET IT OFF GET IT OFF!!!!!!!!" Cassie began laughing at her prissy little friend. "Alright that's enough you two were here." Jordan said stopping their commotion. "Finally my feet are killing me and"........"Its a town." Cassie said interrupting Maggie's sentence of complaint. The girls looked around there were plenty of trees mainly because the town was built right in the middle of a forest. There were people everywhere, working, playing, learning from teachers, and some were even just shopping and going for a little walk. '' Outsiders don't do well here so do yourselves a favor and go back to where ever the heck you came from alright." Some girl said. "Excuse me!" Jordan said after spotting a girl with brown hair with red tips wearing a white tank top and shorts and ankle boots. "This cant be Bloomsbury maybe we went the wrong direction." Maggie said stopping the bad conversation. "It is and you better believe it." The girl said. "Who are you?" Cassie asked. "I'm Emily." she said. '' Jordan.'' Cassie said quietly pointing tword the girl. Jordan noticed her and glanced at Maggie. They nodded to each other and Jordan spoke up. "May we speak to you somewhere private please?" She asked impatiently. "sure"? Emily answered questianly. Emily led them through the town to a building that looked like a shop of some sort. It was filled with chairs and tables and along one side there was a bar and it was filled to the top of its shelves with all sorts of alchohol and glasses to drink from. Emily noticed Cassie looking around at everything. "This is the saloon." She said. Cassie looked at her and then looked back at where she was going. Emily's eyes started watering but she looked away before the girls noticed it. To Emily Cassie seemed very familiar. She reminder her of something she had once lost, a sister,... her sister Cassie. It cant be Emily thought to herself. "So how  old are you guys?" She asked breaking the silence. "I'm 17 Maggie's 17 and Cassie here is 14." Jordan answered her. "How old are you?" Maggie asked. "I'm 18" she replied. Maggie and Jordan looked at each other once again and nodded. "Right up here please." Emily said gesturing to a stairwell beside her. They all went up the stairs and stopped in front of a door. "Ummm.... why don't you stay down here Cassie well let you know what happens later." Jordan said and let her friend pass by down the stairwell. "I'm sorry Cassie we have to ask some questions and well be right back down...I promise." Jordan stated nicely. Cassie had that look on her face that she always did when she was left out of something. The three older girls filled the empty room to talk. Emily shut the door and turned around to speak. "Okay what's this all about, why is this so private who are who people, why cant she be up here with us?" Emily asked impatiently. "The first thing you need to know is that we are not people we are what you call gods people,....... were angel's." Jordan said. "w....wha... nnn.... WAIT WHAT!!!???" Emily stuttered questianly. "You are our keeper Emily. It is said that only a keeper can see an angel. Don't worry we have come to find something of yours that you lost 14 years ago.'' Maggie said calming her down. " We have an idea of what you've lost but we aren't sure its what we are truly here to find so we need you to tell us. What did you loose on July 3rd 1847? Explain everything that happened that day and leave no detail left out this is important. Emily's eyes watered up again and she began to cry at the same time she spoke. " I lost my sister. My sister Cassie....... my pa and I went for a walk while mama made dinner and cared for the baby. The shadows were heading toward the village by the time we were heading back..... so we ran back home as fast as we could. I remember having to push my way through our front door only to see my mother dead the baby gone and in the arms of a shadow man...... I turned to look at my father but he was on the ground bleeding from his side..... I ran as fast as I could away from the city I once loved. The rule was any family that had more than one child was to be exterminated. I should've been killed but I ran away and never looked back." Emily was deep in tears when she finished. " Emily don't cry we know your sister and where she is." Jordan said reusuring Emily that everything was going to be okay. "Its her isn't  it.. the one who's downstairs....Cassie." Emily said. There was no response from Maggie or Jordan. "Thank you Emily I'm sure Cassie is wondering what is going on. You know your.... please lead the way out." Maggie said. The girls left the room and walked downstairs only to find.....