Fallen

Chapter 7: Lost Details

Yawn

Celeste wakes up groggy with her long brown hair all messy like with her night gown to match it, she lies in bed trying to collect her thoughts as she still is half asleep until suddenly

SLAM

She hears a door slam open from further down the hall, knowing exactly where it came from she thinks to herself, "Oh boy."

SLAM

Her door is thrown open by none other than her brother, Xenith

"You gonna get up or what?"

"I will if you give me the time to."

"Sure, and who use to wake up who again?"

"I can really wake you up right now if you don't get the hell out of my room"

As Celeste says that her eyes begin to flicker indicating use of magic. With that Xenith shuts the door faster than he opened it and heads toward the center area of their home. Celeste gets up out of bed and goes towards her dresser and pulled out her sky blue dress and began brushing her hair.

As she goes towards the dinning area, Xenith walks in from the kitchen with two plates in hand with both having bread and eggs on them. Arriving to the table he slides one over to where Celeste is about to pull a chair out then, suddenly she freezes and turns her head towards her brother.

"How did you makes this?"

"I made it."

"I heard no sounds of starting a fire to heat these over, how did you do this"

"I made it."

"How."

"Yes."

Celeste gives her brother a confused and concerned look then decides to finally eat. "Has father left already?" Celeste asks, with an annoyed look he responds "I don't know, I don't care." Celeste concerned asks him "You don't actually mean that do you?"

"I do, he doesn't care to stay around us for a full minute anymore."

"You know mother's passing has been hard on-"

"Its been hard on all of us!"

The siblings both look down in silence lost in their thoughts with troubled looks. Celeste wanting to lighten the mood changes the subject "So, what're you doing today?" Xenith perks up centering his focus back onto themselves "Well today I thought I'd spend my day walking through the hills and such, always great to uh, take in the fresh air and all that." He says with a hint of hesitation. Celeste picks up on the hesitant response and tilts her head as she looks at her brother "Humm, well I was going to spend my day in the library reading and organize whoever was being lazy in the history section again." Xenith nods in acknowledgement as he had gone back to eating.

As the siblings had both finished eating Celeste quickly got up and snatched her brother's plate claiming dish duty "I'll take care of this, you can get going on your walk" Xenith too slow to take control of situation let's his sister do what she wants. After Xenith quickly gets ready he heads for the door as Celeste hears him stop in his tracks as she's finishing up in the kitchen "Oh uh, one more thing before I go." He says to his sister "Yes?" she says focused on her chore. "What is i-" Celeste is cut off as her brother runs up from behind and hugs her.

"I'm sorry."

As Xenith whispers that in his sister's ear he runs out the door shutting it behind him. Celeste stops for a moment to smile about the kindness her brother gave her as she then returns to her duties.

Before Celeste leaves after finishing in the kitchen she goes to put on her mother's necklace with the flower pendant, after doing so she sets out for the village's library. As she walks through the village she over hears people talking such as "The neighbors have been away for awhile." and "The town hall has been pretty quiet recently." Celeste interested in such comments but neglects them for such reasons has her father being called to the hall for work consistently.

Finally Celeste reaches the library, she greets the librarian and then heads to the section with the village's history books as well as books describing the neighboring kingdom. Celeste sets her things down at a table and sits as she begins to read, the first book explains the neighboring kingdom of Ultia and how their own former kingdom Zothus was at war with them several decades ago until the kingdom disbanded and became free land to resolve the continuous stalemates of conflict. The drive for this action was when a battle took place, a group of soldiers from either side went to fight, only three soldiers from the total of 100 left that field, two of Ultia and one of Zothus despite the Zothian soldier winning, the king decided he wanted to lose no more men in battle, the soldier was Zayfur Laytun'Farr.

She finishes reading that book and moves onto the next being a book about the village depicting things such as milestones, events and various other things. As she gets towards the end of the book the final chapter being about a prophecy, one she recognized, the one that her brother was born under. She continued reading and it was barely anything more than what she already knew but finishing she couldn't help but feel like something was missing from it. Celeste done with reading went back to shelves to place back the books, while placing the first she accidentally knocked over a couple other books. As she went to pick them up and place them back she saw a book hidden behind where this book would be, intrigued by it she took it out and began to quickly read it. It was about the prophecy but its was the same text as in the other book but she continued to read it anyways, coming to the end there was a chapter that was not in the book before. The passage read "Someday the village will become influenced by a warrior of a dark heart seeking nothing but, to further their goals by having the village under their thumb and the only thing that could even be capable of destroying this monster is the person of prophecy." Celeste freezes as she finishes that line, concerned she thinks to herself "Brother?" she continues to read as there is one final passage.

"This person will work to conceal their identity and actions but the one way to identify this person is with their eyes of-"

Celeste reading in her head gets cut off by the sound of footsteps heading her way, Celeste worrying this person could very well be alive right now rushes to hide the book but in a different spot as she does so she picks up one of the books she was already going to put away. "Hey there." a voice says from behind her "eep!" she jumps startled, she looks behind herself to see her father and meets his violet gaze "Oh hello father, what brings you to the library today?" Zayfur looks around and says "Thought I could get some reading in before get back to my duties, what're you doing?" Celeste looks back at the books she was putting away saying "Oh you know, I just thought to catch up on some history, that and picking up after some knocked over books." Zayfur looks at the books she has and the shelves. "Hey why don't you head out of here and I'll finish taking care of this for you." Celeste gratefully accepts and grabs her things off the table "Hey why don't you grab some food on the way home?" he suggests, Celeste nods and begins to make her way out of the library and as she gets outside she begins to think to herself.

"Now what did that last line say again?, identify by their eyes of-"

Celeste freezes

"Oh no."