The Lost Sigil; Dawn of Light

Chapter 2: Thieves

The corridors had never been longer. Eda could not wait to tell her mother about the book hoping that the news would be enough to surprise her mother back. Eda walked at a fast pace smiling from time to time a little ray of hope shining in the distance.

Upon opening her mother's bedroom door, everything was thrown back in shambles. Clothes had been thrown all over the room again with the dresser looking even more disorganized, but it was what she saw at the drawers that shook her to the core.

There was a cat, black as coal that had white paws and a boy, who looked as old as she was with brown messy hair and eyes that were oddly grey staring wide eyed back at her. Eda felt her body come to a stop.

"The boy did not read the entire letter," the cat ranted at the boy.

Eda could no longer hold onto herself, dropping the book she had and soon her body, as everything around her went dark.

Opening her eyes, Eda was greeted by two unusual faces hovering above her. Immediately Eda scattered away from the two. She wanted to scream but she was afraid if she did so they might do something to her right there.

"You know one day you might just end up frightening someone to death," the boy's voice was a bit cracked but from his accent he was Daegan though he did not look like it.

"Oh, how I wish I could," the two then broke into laughter before turning their attention to Eda.

"Look," the cat said, its voice was low and assertive," She has it."

The boy and the cat looked at the stone hanging on Eda's neck, which made Eda instinctively grab onto the stone as the two drew nearer. The boy reached for the stone which then started to glow.

"May I borrow that?" the boy had a smirk on his face.

This made Eda run for the door but before she could do anything, the boy had reached her and got hold of her arm. It was necessary that she did something now fearing for her life. Eda then shouted for Lucius but was cut short when the boy took some yellow dust from a small bag on his waist and blew some on her face. Immediately Eda started feeling drowsy. Everything around her began to spin and her eyes were getting heavier. Things went hazy as her legs gave way and she fell hard on the ground then everything went dark.

The moon shone its brightest, the light from it was too much, enough to blind a man. This light woke Eda up. She was disappointed to not wake up on her comfortable bed at home. She had hoped that all that had happened was a dream but the crazy mess was going on.

Eda was in an old decrepit shack. It had a roof that was more holes than roof, walls that seemed to be barely intact with spaces large enough to get a man through. The wood used to build the shack was rotten and chipped with moss growing everywhere and the only thing that seemed to be holding the entire structure together was a single pole of old chipped wood that could have been broken by the slightest breeze. It was that pole that she was tied.

As her vision became clearer, she could see the cat and the boy deep in conversation. They whispered with troubled looks on them. She could hear them mention the late queen's family as well as hers.

"Could they have been the killers?"

There was no way. The boy did not have the face of a killer and the cat, though it talked it could never be able to perform the act but she was prepared for anything thinking that they could be part of those foreigners that were after her mother.

When the two realized that she was awake they walked towards her, the boy's face gleaming with surprising joy.

"Thank heavens you are awake. I almost thought I had killed you." The boy was relieved.