The RavenStark Quest: Awakening

CHAPTER 31:CANDOUR

Her mom. Those words echoed inside my ears. He was definitely referring to Katherine if we recall he mentioned "tall girl", which directly takes us to the reference of 'Her mom' who must be none other than Mrs.Farella. Damn! I don't want to think and make stuff up in my mind but what if something terrible, something no one expected was about to happen?

I looked at Katherine's confused, withered face, and decided to keep all these theories to myself. Drake and Ethan who always seemed like they had everything sorted out now had an evident shook and a blank face. Nobody had no clue what was going on and what was about to unfold. And neither was anyone ready for it.

With our hands tied, we were walking towards a place we were unaware of. Unfortunately, the metal wire that was used to tie our hands had a sort of an inhibitor in it which suppressed Drake's, Katherine's, and Ethan's way to use their abilities. I on the other hand was helpless as usual. Sometimes I felt like a liability to all these people here, if it wasn't for me they would have probably escaped any situation right now. If it wasn't for me Katherine would not have risked her like to create something to prevent me from exploding, if it wasn't for me, Christina would not have sacrificed herself so I could go escape securely. The guilt was eating me alive, and if again someone else gets hurt in the ruckus to save me I could never forgive myself. 

"Move faster!" The man who was leading them yelled. The four were quiet, we did not look at each other let alone speak to each other, the mind was already in a maze full of wild thoughts. And along with millions of thoughts, one was on repeat in my mind, "Where is Olisen?"

We moved towards the east from the backside of the castle and it was a very long walk. Finally, after two hours of walking, we reached a building in a completely deserted place. It was rustic like most of the buildings around here and spooky as well. The building was neither huge nor small, it was like an enlarged cottage. 

"I will take them in." The man said and looked at us. "Move it." He shouted.

The other guards that were surrounding us immediately moved aside creating space for us to proceed forward. The man along with two other people stood beside us on either side. Though the building was in front of us there was no way to go inside it, it was just like the building I saw the first time I entered this place, no door no gate nothing. I thought just like Olisen did magic to create a way they would do just the same but to my surprise, something different happened.

"Go inside." The man demanded in a loud voice. I looked at him confused. How? Then I looked at Ethan who understood what the man meant.

"Follow me," Ethan said and took a step forward. I was right behind him with Drake and Katherine behind me. We stood in front of the enlarged rustic cottage. 

"You see the door over there?" Ethan pointed towards the building but I had no idea what he was talking about. No door was visible to my eyes. He seemed to understand my confusion, he took my tied hands and pointed it downwards of the building. I looked at it intently then, "Oh, Woah that's a--door?" I asked looking at the tiny little opening on the down most side of the building. It was so tiny that I am sure even an ant wouldn't be able to enter forget humans. "Ho--How are we supposed to enter?" I asked taken aback.

"Look at me, okay? Do what I do." Ethan said and moved towards the tiny hole like opening and as soon as he reached the opening he was pulled into it, it was like he had been sucked by the hole. I was in shock.

"Next! Go fast we don't have all day." The man again started yelling. He had such an irritating behavior.

I sighed and went towards the hole and immediately like Ethan I too was sucked into it as something or some force pulled me into some other realm. And within a blink of an eye, I was inside the building, Ethan stood beside me. Within seconds Drake and Katherine too showed up inside and was followed by the annoying man and two other people. 

The inside of the building had no reference to its outer appearance, it was huge! All four of us stood beside each other looking around in amazement. It was vintage yet had a sophistication of its own. We were standing on what looked like a hallway, which was filled with numerous paintings. 

"Where are we?" I asked Drake who was standing next to me in a hushed voice.

"I--I don't know." He said back appalled at the sight of the building's interior.

"Move forward." One of the two people who came along with the annoying man pushed me front. 

"Hey, don't you dare." Ethan pounced at him. 

"It's okay, it's okay. I am fine." I said moving up to him before he does something. "Let's move, come on." I pulled his hand away before it landed on that person's face. The annoying man laughed at Ethan's behavior and commented, "Puny boys." Which angered Ethan more and I could feel his fist compressing tightly. I swiftly pulled him front and started to move forward.  

 Katherine was awful ever since her mom was mentioned, I looked at her and smiled softly, she just looked at me with a sad expression. I had no time to give her comfort as we walked towards an unknown place that was about to be filled with betrayal. 

Leaving the hallway we walked into a magnanimous room and I could see a woman dressed in all red sitting on the far end of a very large and narrow table. She had her face buried in a book so I wasn't clearly able to identify who that person was. 

"They are here." The annoying man said in a strong voice.

With his comment, the woman immediately raised her head up from her book. The four of us's jaw almost hit the floor at the woman who looked at us with a sharp glare, we had our suspicions right from the two words 'Her mom' but as they say, how much ever you know what is going to happen the effect is still the same when it happens. I was utterly out of words, while Drake and Ethan were boiling with anger and disappointment, Katherine was almost in the state of fainting with shock seeing her own mother on the other side of good.

"Ah." Mrs.Farella began. "Well, so nice to finally get you here."