The stories are not mine
Chapter 8: The blind daughter of the sun
Hal, once he saw the house, knew he would have trouble getting little Solaris to safety. It looked any other beach house, so that wasn't the problem. It was that it was that there were security cameras everywhere. 'I need to find her, so I can find a way to help' he thought. At that moment, a young girl came out.
She was about 7 with short sunshine yellow hair and sky blue eyes. She had on a very dirty green dress on and no shoes. The girl was humming to herself and seemed not to notice him despite being right in front of her path. However, Solaris did finally see Hal, once she was at the gate. "Sorry mister I didn't see you," The small girl said with a bow.
"It's okay," Hal said gently "Are you somewhat blind?"
"In what why do you mean?" Solaris asked.
"Is your vision black or fuzzy?" Hal asked still gently.
"Sometimes black, sometimes fuzzy" The girl answered.
"Did you tell your parents," Hal said to which Solaris shook her head. "Why haven't you?"
"My not dad made me blind," Solaris answer in a small voice like she was scared to speak to him after all, Hal was a stranger to her. "Mom tried to help but can't. She told me to pray to papa"
"You should listen to her," Hal said looking up to the sun "He might answer" he was sure of who Solaris's father was if her name and appearance were anything to go by.
"I have, sometimes when I can't move I hear someone sing in Latin, and by morning, I feel fine" that was said happily by the girl.
'Yup her father is Apollo, Roman version' Hal thought. " I 'm a friend of your cousin Logan"
"Really?" Solaris asked.
"Yes and I'm getting you out of this house," Hal said sitting down to look in her eyes.
"How I've tried to run away," Solaris said "But I always get taken back"
"It won't be right away," Hal said in a sad tone "I need time to get a plan, but you will get to safety, and maybe even see your papa"
"Promise?" Solaris holding out her pinky finger.
"Pinky promise," Hal said holding out his own pinky finger to grasped Solaris's. As he did he felt something like ants crawling up his skin till it was all over his body, and under the magic he had on. ' What was that?' he thought.
"How was the trip to logan's cousin's?" Jada asked jumping right in front Hal right when he open the door.
"Eventful" Hal deadpanned.
"In what way"
"In that getting the girl out will take a plan like that of an Athenian" Hal explained. He walked to the library to look up things about Solaris's family. The shabti was also helping. What he got was that Kaitlyn and Logan were raised together after Kaitlyn's parents died. After a trip to New York, Kaitlyn came back and said she was expecting a baby.
"There is nothing to say why there can't come, nor that they can't use Egyptian Magic."
"So did you find who the little sun's father is," The 19-year-old asked taking some paper from one armed shabti.
"All of you want to know, huh," Hal said looking up from a police report about shooting at the house.
"Well duh," Jada said slamming the papers on the desk.
"He is one of the Greek and or roman gods," Hal said "Though I have to ask something"
"What is it?"
"It is obvious that you have seen Solaris, so did she do anything with say sunlight?" Hal asked.
"Once I thought she moved some sunlight that was blocking us seeing down the road, but it was also cloudy that day," Jada said sitting on the desk and talking in a more serious way than normal.
"Photokinesis. The ability to do things with light "Hal said "A very rare ability of her father's children"
"So she has more family?" Jada said "Just how many kids does he have, and who is he"
"I'll just tell you," Hal said getting up "It's Apollo, and I even don't know the answer to that"
"How are you going to help pick the new leader," Jada asked changing the conversation.
"I won't tell you that, "Hal said looking at her "But I am interviewing the candidates"
Jada wasn't an idiot, she got the feeling he was doing his own way of picking out the right person. She hoped it wasn't the old man.
"I take it I'm the last to be interviewed" Savannah as she worked in the garden in the back of the house.
"Yup," Hal said pulling up the weeds.
"Just how are you doing that?" She asked.
"The first part is just talking" Hal explained his plan "The next part is a discussion of what to do in case of emergency, you're the first to know"
"Not a real one," Savannah said "Or is that dangerous"
"Got it," Hal said getting up "If a real emergency happens while I'm here. I'll let your branch deal will it unless it is a part of Greek, Roman, or Norse, then I will be the one that sends it back."
"Do you think something like will happen, will something like a Fire giant come here," Savannah asked not wanting to deal with a fire giant.
"Who knows," Hal said "They're more common in Boston, the center of the world tree, but that doesn't mean they can appear anywhere else."
"And about Solaris?"
"It will not happen tomorrow, but I will get her I swear by my troth to get her to one of the two camps for demigods"
Savannah looked at the boy next to her. 'He wants to help a girl he only just met. That's nice of him'
"Can you do anything unique?" Hal asked Solaris as they sat in a local park. Hal had found the girl sitting on a bench without anyone.
"Like what?" She asked.
"Something no other kid can do," Hal said "Try and think" he had in the span of two days become a big brother to the 7-year-old girl. He helped heal her more then her father could at listed.
"Well, light ironically helps me see, but not always," Solaris said, "That how I knew you were near me the day we met."
"I felt ant on my arm when we pinky promised" Hal muttered.
"I can use like to find things that are hidden," The girl said, "Now I can see things better and want to know why you look human when you're not?"
Hal looked at the younger girl with a blank face then answer "Because I am monster in human flesh, but my soul is human"
"You have a human soul?"
"Yes," Hal said, "My mother was human like yours, and my father was a part of the mythical world."
"What is he?" Solaris asked.
"The wolf that start the end" Was the answer.
"Fenris" Solaris guessed.
"You know Norse Myths," Hal said smiling at the girl "That is good. Solaris you must never tell anyone that my father will one day end the world" Hal sounded serious as he said that.
"If you get me away from my not-father, then we have a deal," Solaris said holding out her hand which Hal shock.
"Magnus frater( Big Brother)," Solaris said, "Do you know my papa?"
'That just now was latin, yup, her father is Roman Apollo' Hal thought "Yes, I do"
"You're not telling me"
"Sorry sól barn (sun child) You must find that out yourself," Hal said ruffling her hair.
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