"Okay…" I said following Sophie and Keefe into the beautiful house.

"WHERE. HAVE. YOU. BEEN!" A boy with dark hair and teal eyes screamed, just as we entered. I stepped a little back at how mad this guy seemed. I glanced at Sophie, hoping it wasn't anything big, but she just worriedly, looked at Keefe. It's not like Keefe was doing anything either. He just stood there with an odd look.

"We just went to the Forbidden cities to tell-" Sophie started, but a man behind the boy stepped forward cutting her off.

"Sophie, you know you're not supposed to go to the Forbidden Cities! You could've gotten hurt! Now, Sandor is blaming himself for everything!" The man said shaking his head.

"Grady, I know what we did is wrong, but I think we have bigger issues to deal with." Sophie said motioning towards me. I stared, shocked. I was an issue, how? The man who I think is Grady, looked at me for a second and said

"Well then, what's your name?" Grady said.

"Um, Everfree Lander. Call me Ever." I said nervously pulling at my locket.

"Well, Ever, would you excuse us? We need to quickly discuss something." Grady said then he looked at the man behind him and whispered "Alden, hail Mr. Forkle." All the weirdly dressed people went into a room nearby. I just awkwardly stood there until after like 2 minutes, I went and sat on the couch. Finally, the people came out with another person. Who unbelievably was…..