Cordelia woke up a few hours later and noticed that the boys were still sleeping soundly. Moving around without making a sound, she got dressed in a pair of blue pants, a white shirt and her favourite pair of black boots. Some time after she had returned to Neverland, Slightly and The Twins had managed to sneak in the Jolly Roger and grab some of her clothing as well as other stuff such as her quill, her ink, some pieces of paper and her weapons. Talking about weapons, she decided to take her long blade sword with her.
Exiting the hideout, after making sure that she had the bottle of fairydust Tink had given her in case of emergency, she poured some on her body and took flight.
She made sure to stay low, close to the trees, not only because she wasn't thrilled with the aspect of flying too high but also she had never done the journey by flight and didn't want to get lost.
After a quarter of the hour,she reached the part of Neverland that was her destination. The trees had been replaced by rocks as she was near the mountain close the center of the island. Many dark caves could be seen in the distance. But Cordelia didnt head there, instead she followed the tree line on foot.
While her mother was still alive, they lived in a makeshift home in one of the caves. When she had died and Hook had come to take Cordelia under his care, her mother had been buried under a pile of rocks just a couple of meters away from the cave. Cordelia hadn't been able to visit her mother's grave often when she had been living in the Jolly Roger. But after she started living with the Lost Boys, she had made a habit of going there once a month.
She usually went at night or when the boys were busy, knowing that otherwise Peter would insisted someone went with her and that aspect didn't thrill her at all.
She reached the familiar place and went around the tall rock behind which her mother was buried. But what she saw made her freeze.
The rocks that covered her mother's body had been moved, scattered all over the place but there was no sign of her mother's remains. Cordelia's feet gave up from under her and she landed on the ground, finding it difficult to breath.
Someone or something had disturbed her mother's resting place and her remains had dissapeared. Who could have done something like that?!
Cordelia stood up, her knees trembling slightly and she turned around, moving away from the scene as quickly as possible. Her state of mind was so messed up that she didn't even think using the fairydust and returned to the hideout on foot instead.
By the time she got back, the sun had already began rising. Outside of the hideout, she sat on the ground trying to catch her breath. She had barely managed to calm down when Nibs and Slightly made their appearance. The boys had obviously just woken up and were surprised to see her awake.
She made a quick excuse of getting up early to practise her swordfighting skills and the boys didn't question her. Cordelia convinced them to get back inside while she gathered their breakfast. Some fruits would go nicely with the remaining cake from last night. The boys agreed, ecstatic at the thought of eating cake for breakfast and went back in to wake up the others.
And Cordelia was left alone to ponder on the peculiar predicament she had found herself in.