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The air sarette s the question if ere even old enough to be in here Why hadn’t they carded us at the door?

At the edge of the croinging froe As I pushed ht of as inside the cage and caracefully around a pole Her wavy black hair hung all the way down to the bottom of her back A leather corset dress fitted her body, and thigh high boots laced-up up her legs A velvet choker wrapped her neck, and snaking up her ars sprouted out of her shoulder blades

She spun around the pole, and then locked her haunting grey eyes on me I felt my breath catch My body suddenly felt so war centered to her I knehat I needed to do I needed to go to her Right now It was imperative that I did…Alifted up and, like a puppet bound to its strings, stepped down, inchingbreezedrose up and touched back down to the floor,me to her Another step…I was just about in reach of the lock that bolted the cages door shut The feather-winged wory eyes asthe cold rabbed h uided e

I blinked dazedly at hi?" he asked crossly

"I-I" I stuttered What had I been doing? Trying to let the woo, but now…

"If you open that up," he pointed a finger at the cage, "then you’ll be the one trapped in there with a pair of wings growing out of your back"

I cringed "I didn’tto do it I just couldn’t…think" I glanced back at the cage The woman’s pale blue lips curled into a snarl, and she let out a hiss I ju asped frohaway froether and rolled his shoulders and neck, as if he was trying to shake off "

"I said I was sorry," I snapped

He sighed and turned around, heading off in the direction of a spiral staircase Aislin and Laylen stood at the top of it, staring down at us

"So what is she?" I asked, clilanced over his shoulder at ave a nod back at the cage "She’s obviously not human So what is she?"

He caain "She was probably hue for the previous Black Angel that was locked inside"

"A Black Angel? What like a Fallen Angel or so?"

"Not quite" He shook his head "Look Ge to you, I really think we should get going" And with that, he turned his back at ingly followed after hi to take?" Alex asked Aislin, pacing impatiently in front of the doorway of the room where the Sword of Immortality was locked inside a display case Luckily, the room had been empty We’d been up there for about tenyou’d of thought ten hours had passed by

"Not too er," Aislin replied "I don’t think"

I was standing just outside the doorway next to Laylen He was keeping a lookout for…well, anything basically A hallway extended out on each side of us The florescent lighting of the lantern lights was hitting thea dark shade of red It reminded me of blood

And what part did I play in all of this? Absolutely nothing I served no more purpose than the vase perched on the table in front of us It took up space and nothingthe whole situation even erous, especially if a Death Walker showed up, which Laylen informed me was a possibility I wasn’t sure if Alex knew this or not, but I wasn’t going to be the one to break it to him

Laylen and I had both been quiet for the h I think we’d both spent our fair share of ti

"So…do you think he’s going to wear a hole in the carpet or what?" Laylen asked, breaking our not unsettling quiet

I’d been watching the staircase intently, waiting for someone to unexpectedly popup into view and take us by surprise "Huh? Who?"

"Alex"

I glanced at Alex He was still pacing the floor, his eyes fixed like a hawk on Aislin

"Maybe," I answered

Laylen laughed "I’hed softly, the air tickling at ainst the wall and folded his ar his skin ripple a little

I stared at the tattoo tracing up his forearlyphic shapes were the same as what stitched the lanterns shades

"What does thatat his tattoo

He raised his arm "What this?"

I nodded "I noticed you put it up to the door outside so we could get in And it’s also on the lanterns that are all over this place, so I was just wondering what it is?"

He pressed a grin back "A tattoo"

I rolled ?"