Mattias - Denmark
Lukas - Norge

Iceland - Alexander

He was running towards the stairs.
Even though he tried to run as fast as he could, everything was like in slow motion.
He noticed he was screaming something, but could´t quite catch what he himself said.
There was fire all around but all he could think about was to reach the stair upwards.

Lukas suddenly woke up.
His breathing was un-steady and he was sweating.
This room he was in was unfamiliar. Where was he?

He pulled of the covers and sat up so his feet could touch the floor.
The carpet was soft and slightly fluffy.
There was a small table close to the bed, nd on top of it was a glass of water.
Lukas took the glass slowly with a slightly trembling hand and drank the water. It felt good to his slightly hurting throat.

While holding onto the table he tried to stand up.
After a slight pause he took his first steps into the room to see what it acctually looked like ( as much as he could see in the dark).
The curtains was open to the window so the moonlight sippered into the room. He could hear the sound of pouring rain outside.

He could thanks to the small dim ligt see that the room he now was in was quite big.
It had a high bookshelf and something that looked like a working desk right nex to it.
Closer to the window was something that looked like a sofa, but something bointed out from it.
Slightly curious as he was, Lukas walked slowly over the wooden floor.
On the sofa lay his younger brother Alexander. The boy was in deep sleep and looked completely relaxed for once.
Lukas couldn´t help but smile a bit at him.

There was no clock in his room visible so Lukas couldn´t figure out what time it really was. But since it was so dark he figured the clock must be around 2 am.
´What should he do now´, he thought for himself. He wasn´t really all that sleepy right now.

Besides, he couldn´t really go back to peaceful sleep without knowing where he were.
He turned around and walked over to the big white-painted door with a golden door knob. He stared at it for a econd before grabbing it and opening the door, carefully and quiet enough to not wake up his brother.

The corridour outside the door was pretty long and even here was there huge uncovered windows.
Lukas stared out of the window to see the rain drops slide down the glass in front of him.

Suddenly he could hear vauge footsteps from the middle of the corridor, whe the staircase was to the floor under.

The man who appeared stopped and looked oud of the windows too.
Lukas couldn´t quite see from this angle and darkness, but the man had some kind of sad aura around him.
The man turned around and began walking towards him, when he suddenly realized that Lukas was standing there.
"I thought that the `guests` would be sleeping at this time of night", he said and continued to walk towards him.

"I won´t be able to sleep if I don´t know where I am", he said in a unsure tone. "But from judging the view from here, I´d say I´m in the wierd castle."
The man snorted a little.
"I thought 'hidden', 'scary' or 'mystical' would describe this castle better ... but I guess wierd is just fine."

Lukas looked up at him again, and suddenly he recognized the mans face.
" ... You are the lord", he said calmly.
Mattias looked at him with a slight smile. Norway broke their eye contact and continued to stare out of the window.
'Your brother asked to sleep in the same room as you,' Mattias began. 'But he didn´t want to stay in the same bed as you. He was blushing so hard while asking too.'
Lukas couldn´t help but smile a bit. He knew for himself how cute Alexander could be.

A light suddenly appeared close to the staircase. It was a maid holding a tray with some kind of food on on a plate, a glass bottle of wine and a burning candle light.
"Young master, I have the food you wanted", she said in a monotone voice.
Mattias turned and began walking towards the maid.
"Put that in my room", he said low and she bowed and walked down the other direction, into a room down the hall.
"Listen village-boy", Mattias said in a higher voice, so Lukas turned his head to look at him with his deadpan facial expression.
"You may have gotten my permission to stay her over night due to your condition, but mark my words that will not be repeated."
He then walked into the room and the maid closed the door after him.

She noticed Lukas and walked up to him.
"Is everything allright sir?" she aske polite.
He nodded slightly. There were so many things he couldn´t uderstand with this place and situation.
"Allright sir. But let me just inform you that this is the 3rd floor of the building, and where all the main bed rooms are. Second floor is where you were before, in the masters office and dining hall. The first floor is where we have the kitchen. It should be better if you come straight down there when you wish to eat your breakfast sir."

Lukas looked softly at her and nodded.
"Please excuse me sir. I didn´t mean to sound cheeky, but I noticed you had fainted before and you should know."
"Why shouldn´t I go to the main diner hall for eating my breakfast?"
"That room is never used nowadays sir", she said and sadly shaked her head. "Not since the young master got left all by himself here."
Lukas stil had his deadpan expression, but inside of him he was curious of what she meant. Left all by himself?
The maid realized what she had said and looked chocked.
"Excuse me", she said while she hurried down the stairs again.

It wasn´t raining that heavily anymore, Lukas noticed.
He then remembered how little sleep he had acctually got and whent back into his room again.
On the table where his glass where, there was a bottle of water next to it. He poured some up in the glass and drank.
Alexander was still breathing as calm as before, meaning he was still asleep.
Lukas got back to the huge bed he had been sleeping in. The bed was way too big for only him really, and he began smiling when thinking of how his brother must have looked like, when being asked if he would share the bed.
Slowly he dozed back to sleep.

Iceland was up early, and got out of the room.
He walked town to the first floor where he found the head butler.
"I will back later for my brother. He is still sick and needs sleep."
Charles looked worried for a second.
"I see, if needed we will hide your brother in the , if you go right you will find the main road. Follow that and you will get to the other village"
Alexander looked pleased and then walked out, determined to get back for Lukas later that day.