Chapter 20 - Curiosity

Chapter 20 - Curiosity

Ezekiel trudged home much much.....much later. The sharp cool night hurried him along one of the dirt paths leading up through his tall grasses and onto his pouch.

All three storied of his family's mansion was dark. No candles flickered in any of the third story windows where his parent's room was. Ezekiel knew that that meant that it was well past two in the morning. He normally saw his mother's candle burning as she waited for all of them to return form their various patrols, but there were only a few lights shining and all of those were on the bottom floor.

He burned with curiosity even as his eye lids begged for sleep.

Had the mortal in fact survived the surgery? Was he awake or was he sti