The Seven lost Orsa's - book one - Defiance by E FromHebs (ereader with android .txt) 📕

"How do you-" Sophia started asking, but I cut her off

"Water on the walls, water, land, so on" 

"It doesn't mean that there is definitely water"

"I know, but there is a good chance that-"

I stopped dead in my tracks as I heard the trickling of water, but not the little tiny drips of water, this was a rushing water, like a river, or a waterfall.

"Do you hear that?" I asked in a whisper.

"Yes" Sophia replied

I started walking faster, almost running towards the sound, it was getting louder and louder the closer we got to it, until I could see an oval shaped light, like an entrance to a tunnel. I didn't want to run, but I did anyway, until I got to the end. I breathed in the fresh outdoor air, I could smell freshly cut grass and lavender, but that makes sense as all I could see was grass and lots of woodland, and I could still hear the rushing of the water. I could sense the smiles behind me.

"We're out!" Sophia and I cried in joy, Dane was smiling with us, I tried to catch his eye, but he was avoiding it.

"Where are we?" he asked

"I don't know"

"I don't care" I spun around on my heel and faced Sophia, she obviously didn't care, and by the look on her face, was too happy to notice me looking at her.

Suddenly I just remembered something, my phone was in my back pocket from when I was texting Dane.

"Guys" I said

"Yeah?"

"I have my phone in my pocket"

"And you couldn't have mentioned that when we were in that dark tunnel with only one light!?" Sophia tried to sound serious, but her laughing took over.

"Okay okay" she said, calming herself down, "why don't you text Anna, she'll come and collect us"

"Yeah, but we don't know where we are"

"But if you think logically, that tunnel must have been at least three miles, and there has got to be a road near here, and if there is, then that road would lead to the warehouse"

"True"

I got out my phone and started to text Anna.

Me: Hi Anna, it's Nadia. We kinda got stuck, if you are not busy could you please come and pick us up about three miles away from our house in the woodland?

"I sent the message" I said

A few minutes later, she replied

Anna: Well, I don't know how you managed to end up there, but I'll be there soon :-)

"She'll be here soon" 

"Good" said Dane

I looked at him with a shocked face, surprised to see him talk directly to me, but he just looked at me with sad eyes. I tried to ignore it, but I could feel the weight of his glare. 

"She's here" said Sophia, I forgot she had her super sonic hearing, so she probably heard Anna's car. As if on queue, I saw Anna flash her headlights ahead of us. We followed the light until we reached her car. Anna was stood outside of it, her brown hair blowing in the wind.

"Anna!" shouted Sophia as she ran up to her and hugged her

We followed behind her

"Well, I don't know how you managed this, but I really do not want to know, and. Good God!" she pulled Sophia away from the hug and stared at her red eyes "What the hell happened to your eyes!?"

"Um, well-" Sophia stuttered

"You know it's Halloween soon, well she got red contact lenses so she could be a vampire, she was just testing them out" I filled in for her

"Oh, well, hop in"

We climbed into her little blue mini, and drove off. The road was bumpy, and ahead I could clearly see Anna's little cottage. It was such a tiny little cottage, and still had the old wattle and daub from the Tutor times, and that's what made it so beautiful. When she parked, we sat in the car in silence for a few minutes. 

"So, you wanna come inside?" asked Anna

"Sure"

We followed her inside to the small cosy living room. There were two fabric sofas and a coffee table on top of a rug that I always thought was the flying carpet, and part of me still does. It wouldn't be entirely impossible, everything else exists, so why not a flying carpet...

"Would you like something to eat?" asked Anna

"I don't really mind" I said, but the others disagreed. Just as Dane was about to walk off to go and help Anna in the kitchen, I grabbed his arm.

"Can I have a word please?" I asked. His smile faded and he let me drag him down the corridor and into a small room.

"Why are you ignoring me?" I really wanted to shout at him again, but that would just made a ton of other problems

"I needed time"

"Time for what?"

"Time to figure things out"

"You could have just talked to me, rather than ignoring me"

"I couldn't"

"Why not?"

"Because Chris has been in touch"

"What!? You could have at least told me that my long lost brother contacted you!" I really didn't mean to shout at him again, but the words just spilled out of my mouth

"I couldn't tell you because he didn't want me to!"

The anger in his voice startled me, and he knew it.

"Look, I'm sorry, I was under strict orders"

"What did he say?"

"He knows about the Orsa"

I sighed and looked him in the eye

"Why doesn't he just come to me himself" I asked, trying to keep a steady voice

"He is too afraid, and it would be too dangerous, if the Primicerius found out about him, they would have him killed"

"Well then we would run"

"Until they find you"

"I just don't see the point in all of this. I mean, for all we know I could have no brother, he could be making it all up for the sake of it"

"He's not"

"And how would you know that?"

"He cast a spell on you"

"He what!?"

"I didn't want to tell you this, but-"

"No, answer my question, why? When?"

"When you were living with your Dad back in Australia, he was living with you aswel. Both of them knew about you, and when you found out, he knew that your first instinct would be to run away, so he cast a spell on you, to make you forget him"

I was too shocked to reply, so instead I sat down on the small single bed in the far corner of the room and closed my eyes, trying to remember him. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't remember him, he had erased himself completely from my memory.

Publication Date: 05-27-2013

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Dedication:
I am dedicating this book to my Nana for her 70th birthday in August :-)