/AN/ So got a lot of god reviews for this story. Which I am in love with, but was having trouble writing it. But, everyone was waiting for an update, so here ya go! YOU GUYS ROCK!
Chapter 3
Thalia had a restless nights' sleep. Filled with darkned haunts. She woke before dawn gripping her sword, covered in panick-formed sweat. She ventured from her room to fill a jug with water. Thalia tip-toed back to her quarters to bathe. Standing in fresh clothes, she noted the sunrise and the fall of dew outside.
Summoning all of her courage, she ventured outside, ready to seek wisdom from the only shade she trusted.
Walking to the edge of a clif she came to a temple. Inside was a girl, bent over in prayer.
Thalia wondered if she know that a little bit off to the right, down the hidden steps, her bodies where buried under blood stained roses.
Thalia hesitantly walked up the stairs leading to the grand mosileum turned house of prayer. Kneeling beside her sister Thalia started thinking about what she could say to garentee that her and her sister would comeout alive.
She couldn't form the right messages, and ultimatly failed.
Thalia bit her lip and turned to her sister. It felt like an eternity until her sister finished her prayers. Without looking up, she spoke.
"If you go, I will have to follow. I request your permission, but it is not required."
Thalia mussed over her sibiling's words before replying, "So you would have us fight, for something we do not believe in?"
The other girl stood, and positioned her skirts as she sat on the temple stairs, waiting for Thalia to sit like so.
"You may not believe, but I do. According to your tellings of my lives, I owe the gods my soul." She stopped to choke back a sob, "And your's too. I think, we are already in debt to them."
Thalia pursed her lips, "Then we go."
At that exact moment, Odessesus waltzed through the trees and upon seeing the women, bowed in greeting.
Before, Thalia could yell and find out why he had been exploring her property so freely, her sister came to the rescue again.
"Good morning Sir, did you enjoy your walk through the gardens?"
Odesseus laughed freely, "I was fallowing the most beautiful songbird that awoke me this morning. I didn't mean to introude."
The girl let out a laugh, "Trust me there is no fault of intrusion. Infact, Thalia and I where just about to send for you and your group."
Shocked by her sister's remarks Thalia's eyes widdned, she wasn't dne disscussing the matter. But it was obvious now, that the matter was closed. Odesseus smiled and turned to the Lady of the house.
"If I go get the men, where are you willing to speak with us?" Thalia approved of her new status, and mementarily thought of a place where her sister could not go as human, or shade.
Standing to be leval with the soldier Thalia gestured to the door discreatly carved into the stone floor and spoke, "Please meet back here in one hour with the rest of your group. There's a small door there. To open int your simpily step on one of the edges with your foot, and it opens." Thalia knew that no returned person could be in the same room as their previous bodies. Feeling her sister's glare, she kept her eyes down cast.
Odesseus nodded in response, and left to rouse the others.
"I presume, you are of sound reasoning for creating a room which I cannot enter, nor can I see into."
Thalia bit her lip anxisously. "Sister, I'm letting you come with me even thoug if you perish, you will not come back to me. And, I, can't live with out you. THis is alredy taxing enough please let the matter go."
Thalia stood, and started walking away from the mosileaum. She was nolonger willing to be so close to such a grisly reminder of past sorrows.
She wasn't ready to answer any premature questions so she chose to walk around the rest of her gardens, until the decided hour came to be present time.
There was one place she could go to hide and pretend thet none of this exsisted. After the pristique rose blooms lay a fallen oak tree under a crestfallen Weeping Willow, and beyond that a river, that lead to the edge of a mountin and evovled into a water fall.
Sitting on the oak turned bench, Thalia watched a dead frog slide down stream, and over the edge. At that exact moment the darkest Raven she had ever seen, flew mid air and fought with a dove; resulting in the latter's death.
Thalia might not have been religous, but even an illiterate servant would have been able to see this as a bad omen. After mulling through all possible meanings she realized, that she was destened for death. Thalia rose in haste, it had to have been at least an hour she rose in haste and ran. Arriving to the moselieum, she tapped the door open and slunk inside the darkned stair case, snapping to light the numerous torches along the walls.
When she slid off the last step, she was standing only a few feet away from four glass coffins. Two of which had already been filled. She walked over to them, silently drowning as a wave of guilt crashed her hear to pieces.
The bodies in the first two coffins had almost turned to bone. What was left of the body tissue was rotted and stained with blood, but most of it had been hidden by the bloody roses she had placed over the bodies during burial so she couldn't smell the rot when she visited.
Feeling her stomach reel with her present depressing,her entire body started shaking. She had kept this place a secrtet for so long, it was going to be hard to share it with others.
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