AN: Sorry this has taken so long, I've been in the midst of many an exam and the distraction meant I couldn't get this chapter right. But here it is, I know it's short but the next one is going to be a big one! Also thank you for the lovely reviews. Enjoy xo


Taking my hand, she leads me towards the main body of the castle. It took me a moment to realise she was leading me outside. I pause, making her look back at me questioningly- cocking her head to one side like bird and waiting for an answer I say Luna, it's cold out and she just raises an eye brow at me as if to say what are you, afraid of a little wind? So I say, can you not just tell me here? And she just looks at me until I understand that this is not something she can tell me, not something that she can simplify into words but something I have to see. To understand at all I have to experience whatever it is that this curious girl has to show me. With that small realisation I start walking forward, dread gripping my guts in its icy claws, twisting them with every step I take.

Wrenching open the doors of the castle with more strength than her little body should have, this time it is her who stops so suddenly I almost walk straight into her. Do you feel it yet? She asks, and I shake my head. Smiling sadly she says you will, soon enough, you will. Giving her a strange look, I motion for her to continue out in to the courtyard and so she does. The wind is sharp and cold on my exposed skin but that is not what causes me to shiver. I understand now what Luna was talking about and I can't help but to want to run back inside to my bed.

The air is completely still around us. Nothing stirs the silence of the night that engulfs us, threatening to drown us in its solitude. Everything seems too perfect- the sky to dark for the multitude of stars that glitter and wink above us, the moonlight to clear and bright as it affords us vision. The night seems too focused, and out of place and wrong. Barely suppressing a shudder I realise that it almost feels... dangerous out here; dangerous and deadly and oh so wrong. Come on she says, so I do.


AN: Miniscule I know, but it's leading up to something I promise!