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“Cloak of light, protect all within your protection,”
“Cloak of light, obscure, obscure, obscure,”
“Mantle of light, thicken and cover this property,”
“Mantle of light, obscure all within, protect all within, obscure, obscure, obscure,”
I envision a mask floating around the property, everything inside hidden to the naked eye. I don’t know how long Dream and I stand here chanting, hoping that everything is well hidden. If Vain was here we would have been able to set the mask and walk away until we wanted it down, but because it’s just the two of us we need to keep manifesting the magic for it to work.
“Hope, you can stop now!” I open my eyes to look at Trek’s beautiful eyes looking at me. His hair is windblown, a frown is adorning his forehead. I turn my head to look back at our house to see that the flames have gone.
“It’s over,” I murmur.
“Not quite, but the worst of it is over.” Drez replies as he slides his arms around Dreams waist to pull her back against his chest.
“Good, now we can go and look for Love” Dream suggests as she looks at me.
“You two stay here and we will look for Love,” Trek orders as he inclines his head for Drez to follow him.
“Why does he always think that I will do what he says?” I grumble, seeing Dream grin at my words.
“I wonder if maybe it’s because he is your guard, and you are supposed to listen to him,” she teases. I wave my hand in dismissal as I turn to go and look for my sister.
“Are you coming, I’m going to look for Love in the opposite direction where they went.” I state as I start making my way through items that have been laid out in the open, and beings that are now resting from their mad rush.
“Of course, someone needs to keep you out of trouble,” I grunt at her teasing, “she’s most probably sitting somewhere with Beast until everything has calmed down” Dream suggests.
We make our way around the side of the mansion to the back, and then we start scouting down and around the lawns towards the trees. “I don’t think she would come all the way down here, do you?” Dream asks as we reach the trees.
“You know Love, she gets distracted and starts wondering,” I say as I turn to walk the edge of the trees towards where the front of the property is.
“Beast keeps her safe,” Dream states which has me nodding in confirmation. Beast is just as his name depicts. A massive beast of a dog that towers over most of the beings, he is ferocious when Love is threatened. No one knows where he came from or fromwhat factor he belongs, all we know is that Love found him one day in the woods in Eternity Fae. He was wounded and for a time we didn’t know if he was going to make it, but Love sat by his side through night and day until he was up. Ever since then that you don’t see one without the other.
“I wonder how the fire started,” Dream suddenly interrupts my train of thought with her statement, which has me glancing at her and frowning.
“Do you know where it started?” I ask, but she shrugs at my question.
“The first we knew about the fire was when Shok ran into Dad’s room telling us to evacuate that the house was on fire.” She recounts as we continue scouting the property.
“Do you think it was set on purpose?” I ask.
“I would say so, it was too quick for it not to be.” Her reply has me tensing as I think about what could have happened and the maliciousness of someone setting a fire on purpose.
“That means that we have a traitor among…” I stop when I see something out of the corner of my eye. “Beast!” I shout.
I rush towards where I see him laying on the ground concealed by the trees, he is so still that my heart tightens with fear. “Beast?” I call again as I approach, but there is no movement or sound. I stop when I reach him to step around his head to see his eyes that are closed. Leaning forward I stroke his head calling his name, but there is no reply or movement. My gaze travels down his body to find blood pooled on the ground near his front flank.
“He’s hurt,” I call out as I look over at Dream that has just come around to stand next to me.
“Is…is he…” the words get stuck in Dreams throat as she looks at Beast.
“He’s still breathing, see” I point towards his chest where I can see movement. “Go and get help, quickly,” I plead as I lean down towards where I see the blood to try and find a way to help him.
“There is so much blood,” Dream whispers still staring at Beast.
“Go Dream, you are wasting time!” I snap which has her jump out of her frozen posse and start to run up towards the mansion.
“It’s okay Beast, I will help you” I promise, hoping against hope that it’s true. I stroke his long fur away from where I think the blood is flowing from only to freeze when I see the jagged cut running along his side. I sense a presence, looking up I see Trek rushing towards us from the other side of the trees.
