AN: The days have blended together. There is no Monday, Tuesday, etc. There is only today, tomorrow, yesterday and the day before. Hope you all are doing well and staying inside!
Interlude 2: Unknown
A woman stood at the window of her apartment, her eyes on the horizon.
The sun was starting to rise over the island of Griffin Rock, bringing with it a promise of a new day.
Another day, filled with incidents and worry that the entire island will collapse into the sea.
The woman knew that she had to find out the cause of these incidents. She knew, or suspected at the very least, what the cause was.
A piece of Isu technology, perhaps an Apple of Eden, or even an Observatory gone haywire.
When she left the Templar Order, she had hoped that coming to Griffin Rock would put some much needed distance between her and the ancient order. She had never agreed with the tenants of the order, but they offered her a home and a family.
Something that called to her like a banquet hall to a starving man.
It took almost two decades to have her eyes opened to the disgust and the horror that was common in the actions of the Templars.
She refused to have this tiny island subjected to the cruelty and manipulation. There were too many good people here that didn't deserve to have their home destroyed, either by the Templars or by nature itself.
The woman smiled to herself as she thought of the recent arrivals to the island. Evangeline was the most adorable thing she had ever seen or met; an innocent bright light that needed to be protected at all costs.
And her uncle….
Oh man, the woman wasn't quite the one to throw herself at any man with any hint of muscles, finding beauty in the mind and intellect, but Eric Everton was the exception. That man was built like a mountain.
But that was far from the first reason why she found herself having the eye for the man. No, it was his big heart, for those around him and for his niece. There was a dark cloud over him, though she could see it clearly. Any one who wasn't an idiot could see that. It was like a specter or something sinister, just waiting to corrupt his soul. Eric clearly was haunted by something in his past, she could see it in his eyes. It was there, but Eric was strong and didn't let whatever happened in the past upset the present.
Her tired eyes went up to where the sun was, feeling as though there was something rising with it.
A feeling of doom, maybe a premonition of something awful to come.
Either way, she knew that she had a time limit. No way this would blow over soon.
Something deep down in her gut told her that it would all get worse and worse, until there was nothing left to save.
The woman turned away from the window. It took a little bit, but after scouring her apartment for any document that might be related in regards to the problem.
She had the day off, anyway.
After a couple of hours of digging, she placed the mountain of folders on her table before cracking her knuckles and diving headfirst
