“Amilia.” Amilia turns to look at the Fallen. He had a serious look on his face. “What?” She asks. The Fallen look around the place. Eyeing everyone as they busied themselves with their task. Senna was drawing something at the side. “I need to talk to you. Privately.” He stressed the last word. Amilia look around too for a moment before she got up from the couch. She went to her bedroom and she wait until the Fallen had entered before closing the door. She faces him, her arms crossed on her chest. “What is it that it’s making you this secretive?” The Fallen look at her. His gaze was straight into his eyes. She was once again being sucked in with those gray orbs. His serious face was still there that only heightened his unearthly features. He was just staring at her, unmoving. It makes Amilia uncomfortable. “Hey, speak up. What’s wrong with you?” Amilia was looking everywhere but him. She was starting to squirm. “I was being called.” At first, she didn’t understand what he was sa
“Senna!” Senna woke up with a jolt. Sweat was trickling down her face. She was out of breath too and her heart was pounding so hard it reverberated around the room. Blake was sitting at his daughter’s bed. He was in a panic too. “Amilia.” One word. One name is all she can manage to say. Blake hugged his daughter and try to calm her down. She was still shaking and tears were streaming down her eyes. “Shh. It’s all right, sweet cake.” Blake rubbed Senna’s shoulder. “Dad, we need to go and see Amilia. I want to see Amilia.” Senna said while she tried to suppress her sobs. “But it’s already late. We can visit them tomorrow, okay? Let’s go back to sleep first.” “No!” Senna pushed her father slightly. She can’t go back to sleep. She won’t. No. The possibility that she will see that scene again terrified her. She can’t. “Dad. I can’t go back to sleep. I need to see Amilia. I want to make sure she’s alright.” She pleads with her father. She was tugging at her shirt. Blake looks at hi
“No. It’s this way.” “I told you, it’s this way!” Lizzie and Zephyr had been arguing since an hour ago about the place and the direction they need to go. Without the Fallen, they need to continue looking for some lost souls of the children on their own. They had already noticed the missing presence of the Fallen but they did not ask Amilia. They thought that maybe this had something to do with their private talk and wanted them to have that privacy. So now, she and Zephyr would just constantly be at each other’s throats. Small things, like where should they go first and what would their actions be. Amilia can see their effort and was grateful for it but having to constantly hear their bickering was unnerving. “Guys! Can we at least decide on things together? At this point, we wouldn’t be able to finish something.” Amilia said, stopping Lizzie and Zephyr’s midsentence. “I agree.” Senna seconded. Senna had been with them since that night. They did not tell anything to the girl, it
“I don’t remember much. All I know is when I woke up, I was here already. There was nothing and no one here.” The boy started his story. Senna scooted closer to him as he was starting to talk. Amilia found debris that was protruding from the fallen column not far from where she was standing, and she sat there. She was listening to the boy and was watching Senna intently. Her father left her in her care, and Amilia would be responsible if anything would happen to her. “You don’t even remember your name?” Senna asks. The boy shakes his head as a reply. He hangs his head down, looking ashamed. Senna was restless, she finally crosses the gap between her and the boy. She gathered his hands on her own and squeeze them. Amilia didn’t let a single action go unnoticed. “Don’t worry. We can help you, right Amilia? We can wait for your friend to arrive and help him, right?” Senna’s eyes were hopeful. The boy threw Amilia some hopeful look too. They are in this together. “Yes. I suppose so.
The Shade’s eye looks menacing. But Amilia was not going to back off. She’s going to push this through. The Shade once again advances to her and Amilia readies her stance and her weapon. The Shade aims for her neck but she easily dodges it. But she was not expecting the other claw of the Shade and she got part of her cheeks scratched with its pointed nails. Blood dripped from it but she was not bothered by it. She had a more pressing matter to attend to. “Just go away!” Amilia shout. It was futile. She just needs to release the adrenaline she felt. The Shade was not stopping either. It was determined to get its prey. He opens his mouth and tried to catch Amilia. She swings her metal rod and it slaps the Shade in the face producing a cracking sound that sends chills on Amilia’s spine. That angered the Shade more. It was now in a berserk mode. Blindly, it reaches its boney claw to Amilia, and then when Amilia dodges it will snap its mouth in her direction. It was getting harder for Am
“Come on, Zephyr. Let’s go!” Senna was pulling Zephyr’s hand. They were back in Amilia’s apartment already. Every news channel had been covering the incident in Lake District so people are going around talking about it. Blake has yet to hear that they were at the place either. Senna said that it was best to tell her father everything face-to-face. Plus, it will just affect his work. So now, they were all gathered in Amilia’s apartment. Senna had been bugging Zephyr to play with her and Chris. She was teaching Chris how to play the Uno card when she saw Zephyr looking at them. She had been pestering the latter to join their game. Lizzie was inside the room. She’s been there ever since they got back and had not left the room. Amilia gathered that it might have something to do with Zephyr. Maybe their banter was a serious thing now. Amilia stared at the balcony. There she saw a lone feather falling from above. Amilia squinted her eyes to see it. It’s a huge feather. One would mistake i
What is that? That is all that Amilia could think of. She was now sitting on her bed. Lizzie and the others were in the living room, talking. The angel already left and Zephyr was tasked to tell Lizzie what happened. Amilia’s heart was still beating hard. The image of Lizzie’s face was embedded in her mind. Right now, she had trouble erasing that in her memory. She tries not to think about it but she can’t. Whenever she feels like she was now forgetting the image, it would pop up back, making her relish the memory anew. Amilia grunted in frustration. “Is Lizzie, okay?” She asks herself. Amilia got up from the bed and peek outside, to the living room. She watches Lizzie but she looks like Lizzie. Gone was the trace of the sinister look earlier. “What are you doing?” Amilia jumped when she heard a familiar voice behind her. The Fallen. He’s back. He was standing a few steps behind Amilia. His arms were crossed at his chest as he criticizes Amilia from head to toe. “You’re back.”
Zephyr woke up in the middle of the night when he heard a whimper echoing in the whole apartment. He slowly got up from the sofa and scan the place. It was dark and he can see no changes or anything. Just the whimpers. His eyes landed on the bedroom door. The sound was coming from there. Zephyr jolt from the sofa and run to the bedroom. The doors are locked. This is weird because Amilia said that she won’t lock the bedroom door for emergency purposes. Zephyr turned the doorknob violently. But it won’t budge. “Amilia!” Another whimper. “Amilia, wake up! Open this door! Amilia!” Zephyr bang on the door. Panic washed over his whole body. He bangs his fist on the door loudly and violently might wake up the whole neighborhood floor. “Come on! Amilia! Open this!” A hand stops Zephyr from striking the door again. When he looks back to see who it was, he saw the Fallen. He shakes his head when Zephyr’s eyes landed on him. “She can’t hear you. You will just wake up the whole apartment a