[ BOOK THREE ]
Ryan Mikaelson has spent his entire life hearing stories about his family and their past. The infamous Original family. The villains of the supernatural world. His world. But now, it's his turn to make his own mark.
Now a student at...
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CHAPTER THIRTEEN
What Was Hope Doing In Your Dream?
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RYAN PROCEEDED to make himself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich when Hope released him and left to go change. Despite his little heart to heart with his sister, he needed something to eat.
He did feel a lot better since his conversation with Hope. Ryan knew that as soon as he revealed what happened in his nightmare his sister would not leave him alone about it. She asked before, when they were much younger, the same thing. Right after the Hollow invaded her body and wreaked havoc on New Orleans.
Even as a seven-year-old, Hope had a better understanding of the world than most adults.
Then and now, Ryan never found himself scared of his sister. The Hollow? Yes. Greta Sienna's vampires? Yes. Hope? Not a day in his life. Nothing she ever did could make him scared of her. Although, she did piss him off on occasion.
Ryan finished his sandwich and went back to his research, but he had been intercepted by Landon. The Kirby boy found something. He also brought it upon himself to look for information on the Night Hag. But what he had to say had nothing to do with the malevolent spirit.
"Let's pretend for a second that the research isn't wrong," Landon exclaimed as he led Ryan, Hope, and Alaric into the library. "Maybe the Night Hag can't hurt us in real life. Maybe the Night Hag can't leave the astral plane to get ahold of the urn, so –maybe we're not dealing with a Night Hag."
"Well, if it walks like a Night Hag and talks like a Night Hag, what else could it be?" Alaric questioned when they came to stop next to a table with several books placed on its surface.
"That's exactly what I was wondering," Landon said. "So then I started going through all of these books, and boom." He pointed to where a book had been left open to a page.
Hope and Ryan moved around the table to take a look. An image of bats flying across a rocky landscape was shown on the left, while a passage of text covered the right.
"Oneiroi?" Ryan read the title.
"What's an Oneiroi?" Hope asked, glancing up to their headmaster.
"It's a black, winged, shapeshifting dream demon from Greek mythology," Alaric said and reached out to grab the book.
Landon released a breathy chuckle. "Yeah, of course he knows what it is."
