Yet again I am saying this- none of these characters belong to me; they belong to Brandon Mull.

Seth's POV

I stood there, shocked at what I had heard. I was expected to become evil. That explained a whole lot.

For starters, the look on grandpa's face when I told him. Second, why the creatures down in the dungeon were talking to me so much. And thirdly, why I was so prejudiced against my sister.

"What should I do, Graulas? I don't want to affect my family, but I feel that if I leave that they will be in more danger than when I am here." I said.

"I do not know, Seth. That is for you to decide."

I talked with him a little longer, and then, as I was leaving-

"You should go and talk to Nero more. He will train you; bring out more of the abilities than you have now." Graulas said, with a smile.

"Okay, I will."

As I was walking back to the house, I just happened to look up at the moon and see that it was already high in the sky. I knew what I was going to get when I got back.

Kendra's POV

I was really starting to get annoyed with Seth. Yeah, annoyed. Sure, as a sister, I should be worried like my parents, but I wasn't. He thinks that he can just rum off on his own and do whatever he likes. Sometimes I just wanted to-

"Hey, sorry I'm late." Seth said, as he walked through the door.

"Young man, where have you been? Do you know how worried we have been? Explain why you went into the forest, alone, when it was almost dark, and then you come out at some crazy hour in the morning!"

"I just needed to be alone." Seth said, not backing down.

"Why can't you be like your sister, Seth?"

Oh dear, I thought. Here we go.

"Oh yeah, just use that line every time. Why can't you be like your sister, Seth?" he said in a mock voice of my grandfather's.

I was shocked. I had never seen him this mad before.

"As if I would want to be like her." Seth continued. "Miss goody-two shoes! The one who gets all the praise. The one who knows everything. The one who gets the special treatment, just because she is like that. And because of the way I am, I can't be treated like that at all, can I? Can I?!"

"Seth, please try to understand-"

"Understand? UNDERSTAND?" he yelled back at grandfather. "Maybe I would understand if someone would teach me! That's where I was tonight. Talking to someone. Trying to understand! And now I do! I-"

With a horrified look on his face, Seth cut off.