In the morning Delilah woke up rather late since she did not sleep very well, she had a pretty bad dream. All she could remember was being trapped in a dark tunnel. She opened her curtains to see that everyone else was still sleeping. Seeing as how they hadn't come to bed until she had long fallen asleep, she wasn't surprised. Luna was waiting with a letter from home, obviously waiting for her treat. As soon as she gave her a treat she flew out the window. She laid back down on her bed and read her letter.

Dearest Delilah,

Sorry it will just be me writing back. Your father is away on business and Lia hasn't been around much the last few days. She must be getting ready for school.

It sounds like you have been having a wonderful time. I would prefer it if you weren't getting in trouble, but it seems like it was a bit out of your control. Do take your headmaster up on the offer for lessons. I would hate for something really bad to happen. And I hope you were not involved in the flobberworm fight, and I definitely hope you weren't involved in starting it!

I'm so sorry that you broke your arm. I do hope that it is feeling better. It must be nice to not have to be stuck in a cast. I broke my arm once and hated the cast. It was so itchy!

I am proud that you have been able to accomplish so much! Keep up the good work! And make sure to pay attention in class, even history. Just because it's boring doesn't mean it won't be useful.

And make sure to stay safe. The Wizarding world is full of all kinds of dangerous creatures and I would hate for you to get hurt. So make sure to listen to your teachers and don't do anything you know you aren't supposed to be doing.

I understand that you are busy, so no need to hurry or even write back if you don't have time. I would always be nice to hear from you but I would not want our letters to come before school. Keep me informed though! I always want to know how my baby is doing!

I love and miss you more than you know!

Mom

P. S. I sent some of my cookies for you hopefully that will help with the homesickness.

Delilah was a bit disappointed that only her mother had written back but she understood that they were probably just as busy as she was. She figured it wouldn't be worth making Luna fly all the way back just to deliver a thank you note so she just stashed the letter. Getting can up she noticed the box sitting on her desk that she had not seen before and could smell the cookies as she got closer. She opened the box to find a whole batch of cookies inside and knew there was no way she could or would eat that many before they went stale. So she decided to tuck away a dozen of them and the rest she was going to share with the others.

She got ready as Sam was getting up, dragging her slippers on the way to the shower. She got done just as Sam got out of the shower. Since Sam didn't take long to get ready, Delilah just waited for her to finish, offering her a cookie. Sam took 3 as she resumed getting ready. Once she was done they headed down to the common room. Lorcan was already there in their usual seats of course, Lysander probably still sleeping. She offered Lorcan the cookies and he happily took one. She set them down on the table by him hoping he'd grab some more, Sam grabbing three more the moment she set them down. Well at least someone will eat them.

Shorty later Lysander came down and immediately grabbed four of them without asking, he at least thanked her. "So what's on the agenda today?"

"We should explore the castle," Sam said with a grin. "They showed us some of the castle but not all of it. I was noticing on the way to class that there are hallways that are not on the map they gave us."

"Is that a good idea?" Delilah asked. "Maybe they aren't on the map for a reason."

"Aw come on where's your sense of adventure?" Lysander asked, a devilish smile on his face. "Wouldn't they say not to go down those hallways if they were dangerous?"

"Unless they were thinking it would make us want to go explore them," Lorcan responded. "You know you never want to do something till you're told you can't do it."

"Oh geeze," Sam said. "Now you're over thinking it. If you're too scared to go that's fine. You can just say so. "

"Yeah come on. You're not a chicken are you?" Lysander taunted, imitating a chicken.

"Fine" Delilah said. "But if we get in trouble, I'm never speaking to either of you again."

"Are you sure?" Lorcan asked.

"Yeah I'm tired of being a scaredy cat." Delilah said. "let's do this!"

"That's the spirit!" Lysander said.

"Well shoot, I'm not going to be the only one staying," Lorcan shrugged.

"That's the spirit!" Sam exclaimed.

Delilah took a cookie and offered them to her friends; Lorcan took one more, Sam and Lysander each grabbed a handful. She went upstairs, grabbed her bag, put the cookies in along with her wand, map, a scrap of parchment, quill and ink. If they were going to explore they might as well map it. When she was certain she wouldn't need anything else, she met back up with the others downstairs and noticed Lorcan had grabbed a bag too.

"Alright Dora and Diego, you guys ready to go?" Sam said with a chuckle. "Got your backpacks packed?"

"I'd much rather be prepared than sorry," Delilah responded. "I'm sure you'll be thanking me at some point."

"Alright let's blow this popsicle stand," Lysander said heading towards the door.

They all ventured off into the castle starting on the ground floor. They went through several hallways and didn't come across much but empty classrooms which must have been for the students of other years. The closest to interesting thing they found were the portraits of Miss Frizzle and Willy Wonka. They turned down a hallway near the dining hall and came across an elf dragging a sack of potatoes larger than he was though a portrait of Chef Boyardee.

"Do you need some help with that?" Lorcan asked, running over to help without waiting for an answer. "Here let me get that for you!"

"Oh thank you very much Master…. " the elf said timidly waiting for him to fill in his name.

"My name is Lorcan, and you don't have to call me Master," he said picking up the sack. He then nodded in the others direction. "That's Sam, Delilah, and Lysander." They all waved in turn. "What's your name?"

"Adrastus," he said. "Pleasure to make your acquaintances and might I thank you immeasurably for your assistance. Mas….I mean….L..Loran you are a great man. Thank you so much! You are too kind!"

"It's really no big deal," he said, blushing a bit.

"Is there anything else we can help you with?" Delilah asked.

"Oh no, this is already too much! You have helped more than enough. Here let me get you something for being so kind. Please, please follow me this way!" Adrastus said, waving them into the portrait hole.

They followed him through a rough looking hallway to a large room. Once they stepped inside they saw that they were standing in a large kitchen full of elves. The moment they all saw the four of them, they all rushed over, introducing themselves. They then starting offering them all kinds of food, practically begging them to take something. They each grabbed a few sandwiches and some treats since it was about lunchtime and they were hungry anyways. The elves then bid them farewell, telling them they were welcome to stop by anytime. They let them know that all they had to do was poke the portraits belly, and it would open.

Walking back out to the main hallway, they went to sit down in a nearby empty classroom to eat their food. Delilah pulled out her map to start mapping the location of the kitchen when she saw Lorcan do the same. With a smile on her face she got to tracing while nibbling on her sandwich. One they were done, they continued on through the hallway but didn't find anything down that way but broom cupboards and storage closets. Heading back through the castle, they mapped the locations of each of the house towers and the empty hallways.

Finally getting the back end of the castle, they came across a library. It was ginormous and Delilah could not believe her eyes. There were more books than she had ever seen in her life, including the large collection in her common room. She wandered down the aisle ways amazed that she was still seeing more and more rows of books. Reaching the back end of of the vast room, she came across a portion of the room that was blocked off and dark. It was chained off with a large RESTRICTED sign. Her curiosity got the better of her so she ducked to go under the chain. Out of nowhere a boney hand grabbed her by the shoulder causing her to jump practically out of her skin. She spun around to find an old decrepit looking elf. Man he was quite stealthy for his age!

"The sign says restricted," he said in a ragged rough voice. "What makes you think you can just go in there?"

"I...I'm s..s..sorry... I didn't mean… well….I'm sorry. I shouldn't have tried going in there," Delilah said, a little scared. She didn't want to lie and get in even more trouble. She had been in trouble enough as it was already.

"Stay out of there," he snapped. "And if I ever see you in there without authorization again, I will have to report you to the Headmaster!"

"Oh..ok. I promise I won't!" Delilah said, relieved. "Only these books over here. Got it!"

She spun on her heel and sped back to where her friends were waiting near the entrance. She paused quickly to map the location of the library and then rushed the others out of the room. She practically had to shove them out with all of them asking what the rush was. Once back in the hallway she relayed what had happened and they all had a nice laugh about it.

"Well, if someone is feeling adventurous," Lysander said with a wink to Delilah, "we should go explore the dungeons."

"What? No!" Lorcan said. "That is a horrible idea! Delilah already almost got in trouble. Do we really want to push it?"

"Oh come on!" Sam whined. "I totally want to go check it out. Are you scared of the dark or something?"

"No," Lorcan said indignantly. "I think that's bad idea. You don't even know what's down there!"

"That's the whole point, to find out what's down there. What's the worst that can happen?" Lysander asked. "We get told to leave and not come back?"

"I think I agree with Lysander," Delilah said, still a bit hyped after her getaway from the library. "Let's do it."

"Well you guys go on ahead. I'm not going down there. I'll be in the common room when you guys come to your senses," Lorcan said turning and taking off towards the tower. "I won't even say I told you so."

The rest of them chuckled and walked confidently down the stairway that lead to the basement. They had a class down there anyways so they could always feign leaving something in the classroom, so they walked right on down. At the bottom, they checked to see if anyone was around before heading down the hallway rushed around the first bend to make sure they wouldn't be spotted and used Lumos to light their way down the dark hallway. It seemed to not have a whole lot of doors but quite a few hallways.

Once they took a second turn, Delilah realized the hallways were set up like a maze so she made them stop every turn so she could map where they were going so they would not get lost. Down one of the hallways, they found some abandoned classrooms with furniture that appeared to be centuries old. There were even broken beakers just laying on some ancient tables. They walked through a few of them before continuing through the continued along and found creepy cobwebbed rooms that looked like they had once been dorm rooms. Who would ever want to sleep in a place like this?

As they were heading towards the door, they heard someone outside the door. They all froze and hid just as the person walked in the door. No one had their wands lit so they could not tell who it was.

"Guys?" they heard the person whisper.

"Lorcan?" Lysander said, standing up from behind a desk lighting his wand revealing his brother. Everyone else sighed in relief and re-lit their wands, coming out of their own hiding places.

"What are you doing down here?" Sam asked, crawling out of a wardrobe. "You scared us half to death!"

"I figured you guys could use someone with some common sense down here," Lorcan said crossing his arms. "Someone needs to make sure no one gets in trouble or hurt."

They all chuckled and shook their heads as they left the classroom. They continued down a few more hallways of classrooms and dorms when they found what appeared to be a small dining hall. Once inside, Delilah started to get a weird feeling. It felt like something was pulling her from deep inside towards one of the hallways.

"Do you guys feel that?" Delilah asked, paused outside the hallway she was feeling pulled towards.

They all gave her a weird look, obviously feeling nothing.

"I have this feeling deep in my bones to go this way," she said, pointing down a hallway, starting to feel anxious. "It doesn't feel bad or anything, more like I am meant to go this way."

"Is that a good idea?" Lorcan asked.

"Yeah that sounds a bit like a scary movie to me," Sam agreed.

"Sorry Dee, I think I have to agree with them," Lysander said, sounding very uneasy. "This place is creepy enough without you saying even creepier stuff like that."

"I have to go guys," Delilah said before walking down the hallway. She didn't even wait for them to respond, she had to go. She could hear them chase after her, all agreeing they could not let her go alone. She went down a couple more hallways, still roughly mapping her progress so they would not get lost. Climbing a pair of stairs at the end of the hallway she was face to face with a door. Everything inside of her told her she needed to go inside. "This is it."

After a few moments pause, they all eagerly said, "open it already then!"

She slowly reached her hand out and right before she touched the door she had a flash of a family of six. Two parents, two boys in their preteens and two twin babies. Her heart filled with the feeling of home as the scene passed before her eyes. They family was just sitting around a fire, enjoying each other's company, the boys playing with the children on the floor as the parents were seated in chairs, the mom knitting, the father smoking a pipe. It seemed to be from centuries ago, all the furniture matching the ones in the dorms and classrooms they had passed on the way there.

"Come on!" Lysander exclaimed. "The suspense is killing me!"

Shaking the scene away, she grasped the handle and opened the door. What she saw inside was the same room as in the vision she just had, except now it was ages old and covered in a thick layer of dust, the family having been long gone. Man she was going to have to remember that, but right now that feeling was drawing her inside. Everyone else followed her in and starting looking at various things in the room but she was drawn to a chest at the foot of an aged bunk bed. She kneeled down to open it but it was locked. Remembering how her father unlocked the chest that was now hers, she picked up her wand and tapped the chest three times. The locks popped open and the chest cracked open.

"Holy Merlin!" Sam exclaimed "How did you do that?"

Delilah didn't answer, she couldn't, the call of what was inside the chest was more than she could resist. She slowly opened it to find a cloak, book, wand, and a ring on a chain. The book and the wand was what was calling to her so she picked them both up, examining them both. The wand was buzzing in her hand quite similar to the one she had gotten from Zonkos except stronger. This wand was meant to be in her hands, no one else was ever meant to be in possession of it. Carved in the handle was a snake winding around it, a red jewel centered on its head. It looked just like the Horned Serpent. It was beautiful and she couldn't stop looking at it, but then she the call of the book drew her attention to it.

At this point everyone had stopped what they were doing and were watching her intently to see what had caught her attention Setting the wand aside, she opened the book. Right on the first page was a family tree. In the trunk was the name Steward. She gasped as she saw her last name, the others asking what was going on.

"It's a family tree," She said. "It has my last name written on the trunk. I think this is my family tree."

"How do you know? There are a lot of Stewards out there," Lysander asked.

"I can just feel it," she said tracing the names to the outer branches. Most of the branches died out long before reaching the outer edge, but a few made it there, but only one branch extended out to the outest most edge, and it was there at the end that she saw her name, tracing it back a bit she saw her parents', and her father's siblings', then one more layer in her grandparents'. "Oh my goodness….it is…"

She shoved the book at her friends as she got up and paced the room. They began flipping through the book and were reading out loud what they were coming across.

"This was written by Isolt Sayre," Sam said. "It looks like a journal of sorts."

"Seems like she's going over her life story," Lysander said. "That Gormlaith seems like a real witch and I don't mean that in a good way. She seems real mean. She kidnapped Isolt and killed her family!"

"Looks like she adopted two boys and started a family with a no-maj man, they had twins," Lorcan said. "And it says here she started this school too! It was started here and expanded to the Ilvermorny we attend now!"

"No way!" Sam and Lysander said at the same time. That was more than enough for her to have to hear. She snatched the book back from her friends and continued to pace. So does that mean I am the last descendant to the founder of this school?

Lorcan mirrored her thought, "So that means you're the last living relative to Isolt herself, the founder of this school!"

"Ok, we don't have time to weigh the possibilities, we have been down here for a long time. I am taking the stuff that is in this trunk. I feel like I am meant to have them. We can look at the book more later but we need to get out of here."

"Agreed," Lysander said. "But you are not getting off that easily! We are going to be talking about this later!"

"Fine," she snapped, putting all the stuff in her bag before pulling out her map. "Alright let's get out of here."

They started following the map and when they went around a few bends, Delilah realised that her map was not matching the hallways she was looking at. "Uh, guys, I think we have a problem."

"Don't tell me you got us lost?" Sam said. "We'll be down here forever! I don't want to be rat food!"

"I've been following the map perfectly!" Delilah defended. "I even mapped out every classroom and hallway! I swear it is like the hallways changed!"

"Don't worry, we'll be able to figure our way out." Lorcan said. "Let me see the map."

They all gathered around the map to see if they could figure out what went wrong.

"Too bad you don't have a feeling leading us to the exit," Sam mumbled.

"Hey don't take it out on her, this map is perfect," Lorcan defended. "I mapped the hallways too and her map is exactly like mine. I even remember this hallway specifically! It was the hallway with the dorms and that's right where we should be. Look there are no doors anymore, Delilah is right."

"Well now isn't that just great?" Lysander said, slumping to the floor in defeat. "How are we going to find our way out?"

"Hey what about the book?" Sam asked. "Isolt created the school, maybe she wrote in there how to find the way out!"

"Yeah, let me see the book," Lorcan said. "I've been researching since I was 6, I can find it if it's in there."

Delilah slumped to the floor in defeat too. She dug the book out of her bag as Lorcan sat next to her and she handed it over to him. He quickly flipped through the book a few times, causing the others to get more and more defeated each pass through.

He jumped up to his feet and then yelled "Aha! It's a map!. I think it's even in real time! Look I can see the hallways changing right here! It has the whole map of Ilvermorny! It must be spelled to stay current like the family tree! That's amazing! And look it even has the location of all the people in the school! There we are!"

They all gathered around to take a look, and sure enough, there was a map of the entire Ilvermorny complex and the locations of everyone, mapped by labeled footprints. They were showing up in the middle of the section of the map that showed the dungeon, the hallways were most certainly changing.

"Salvation!" Sam yelled. "Let's get out of this creepy underground!"

"Yeah hopefully we can make it back just in time to get dinner," Lysander said. "I'm starving! It feels like my stomach is eating itself!"

Following the map, they made it through in no time, only having to change directions a handful of times because of the hallways changing. Nearing the Potions class, they saw that there was a teacher in the classroom, heading for the door. When they saw that he was heading in their direction they ran back.

"What do we do now?" Delilah said, fearing the consequences. If they were got caught down there they would get in trouble.

"Wait, I read something in here," Lorcan said looking through the book, "Go into this classroom so I can find it."

They all gathered in there, Lysander standing guard. Lorcan flipped through the book again, flipping forward and back a few times before stopping at a page.

"I knew I saw that!" he said pointing to the page.

On it was a picture of the cloak she had found in the chest. Written all around it was a description of the the cloak including what it was made out of, the color, and the designs. Then at the bottom it explains that it has been spelled to conceal the wearer's from detection. Isolt had created it to hide her children under, both the twins and the boys.

"It's an invisibility cloak!" Sam exclaimed!

"Your ancestors to the rescue again!" Lysander said. "Good book worming bro!"

"And since it was made to conceal all four of the kids its bound to be big enough to hide us all," Lorcan explained. "Lets check it out."

Delilah pulled out the cloak and the three of them got under it. There was plenty of room for all of them as long as they crouched down. Lysander was still looking out the door to keep watch and when he turned to talk to them he saw he was alone in the room. "Holy Merlin! Where did you guys go!"

They all walked over and enveloped him in there a well causing him to startle.

"Wow! This is pretty sweet!" Lysander said. "I really couldn't see you guys! It was like you guys just disappeared!"

"Good, it works!" Sam said shoving them towards the door. "Let's get out of here before I starve to death!"

They watched the map for an opportune time to leave and slipped out undetected. Once out of the dungeon, they snuck into an empty classroom and got out from the cloak. Delilah folded it back up and put it in her backpack along with the book.

"That was so cool!" Sam said "That cloak can come in handy!"

"Yeah it can!" Lysander said, then got a mischievous look on his face. "Can you imagine what we could be capable of with both the cloak and map?"

"I don't think so," Lorcan and Delilah said at once. Delilah continued, "I think we have had enough adventure to last us a lifetime. I've already gotten in enough trouble."

"Aww come on," Sam said. "We would literally be undetectable!"

"I said no, and that's final." Delilah said. "Now let's go eat."

They all rushed to the dining hall and just barely made it in time to get food. After eating their fill, they all headed up to the common room. Delilah wanted some peace and quiet to look at the book some more without the others looking over her shoulder. She excused herself and went up to the dorm to shut herself in her bed. Just her and the book. She read Isolt's story about her upbringing, starting a family, starting the school, and how they defeated Gormlaith.

A Pukwudgie named William defeated her? I wonder if the head of security is a descendant of the original William? Or is he the real William? How old do Pukwudgies live for? She thought until she fell asleep, book still in hand.