Finding Richards Secret Files

POV: Xander

My excitement when that hidden staircase was revealed had no boundaries. I have no idea what I would find in there, but at least I know that we have little hope of saving ourselves. Everyone seems genuinely happy for us, and I realized that even if the king is trying to turn them against me, they still love genuinely, and I’m happy to have good people around me at this crucial moment of my life when it seems like the whole world has turned it’s back on me. At a point, I was beginning to think that the universe itself had turned its back on me.

I wondered where I went wrong for Mother Earth and the moon goddess to abandon me this way. I even felt worse when I realized that Heather was trying so hard to keep me out of her head. I can tell that she is a bit nervous around me, and even when I try to be cozy with her, I hear her heart beating so fast that I would have to hold back a little and try to find out what is going on with her. She kept lying to me that everything was o