The Lost Boy Society ||PAUSED||

Chapter Eight

Cap had docked the ship and we were now walking to the camp. It wasn't particularly quiet because Jax kept on complaining and comment on every single thing.

Even I, who normally hates silence, was wishing for some right now.

Finally, Nathan told Jax to stuff it and he rarely did that.

"But I don't wanna!" Jax said back, acting like a three year old.

They started arguing and with the constant banter between them, no one had to say anything.

After walking for a while, we stopped in front of a tree. It didn't look special. In fact, it looked exactly like the others.

Jax stopped his talking for a moment, looking at the tree and then started right back up again. "What are we doing in front of a tree?" He asked no one in particular.

Pan glared at him for moment, obviously as annoyed with him as the rest of us, while Cap pulled down a lever disguised as a branch. She then tapped on the tree a couple times in some sort of pattern.

A door opened out of tree where I hadn't seen one before and all of us were ushered in. We were led down some stairs and after that, I paused.

I could only see the main room from where I stood but what I could see were maps of different places on the walls, tables with paper all over them and people everywhere; talking studying the maps, and scratching things out of the assorted blackboards.

When I looked back at group, Cap, Red, B.B., and Ella were gone. Only Pan remained and she led us past all that and into one of the many hallways that branched off from the main room. From there, we all followed her to an older woman. She left us in her care.

The stranger recognized us right away. "You're the Lost Boys." She said. Her voice was warm and whisper.

Jax spoke up for the first time since we got here. "Why does everyone seem to know who we are here?!" He asked.

It was a good question, one that we all had but it, like most good questions, was ignored and not answered.

The woman led us to what I'm guessing was her room. It was warm and cozy, with candles all around the room to give optimal lighting. "Sit." She said to us, motioning to the cushions on the ground. "Sorry if it's not very comfortable. We all got the things that we could from what the other characters brought along." She explained the slight clashing of the pillows.

The other characters brought stuff with them? Like furniture and stuff? Wow, okay.

After we got comfortable on our selected pillows, she gave us each a cup of tea.

I looked around me after being given a cup and see the others drinking it. So, seeing it was safe to drink- thought I wouldn't know why they would want to poison us- I took a gulp and almost spit it right back out. As I swallowed, I could feel the boiling tea travel down throat and my left arm starting to ache a bit as it did when I ate or drank really hot things. "Flippin' heck! That's hot!" I said, rather loudly.

The women looked at me and then said in the same voice as before, "Use cation while drinking hot tea."

"What? Did you think it would be cold?" Jax teased me.

I stuck my tongue out at him, like the mature fifteen year-old I am, and then nodded at the woman, showing her I understood what she had said and would do so. I then proceeded to blow on the tea in my cup.

She continued, talking to everyone. "You are on a quest, yes? To stop the destruction of both my world and yours, is that correct?" She asked us.

We nodded.