Part 3
Christine hesitated outside Thierry's office in the Circle Daybreak mansion. She didn't know if she should tell or not. The Night World had a completely different opinion of it than she did.
She couldn't understand why they treated it so poorly. If they wanted to creature to work for them, use it's powers for them, then why keep it locked in a basement?
"Chrissie? What is it? You've been hovering around for at least fifteen minutes."
Christine cringed as Lady Hannah approached her. Old story, she'd been so wrapped in her own thoughts she'd forgotten there were other people around. One of her great faults, that. Sometimes living in her own head was more preferable to reality.
Occasionally she came out into the real world and learned things. "I found something out. I heard Anton and Martha talking, and I'm not sure if I should repeat it or not." She couldn't bring herself to meet Lady Hannah's eyes.
Lady Hannah was one of the important people, why should she be interested in what an ordinary witch like Christine had to say?
"Please, do tell me. If Anton and Martha have something to say, then it's usually very important." Lady Hannah was actually interested?
"Well, um," Christine stared at her bare feet on the beige carpet, "they were talking about the latest buzz in the Night World, and they're all angsty and on edge cause it's escaped."
Lady Hannah was silent. She stared at a strange painting on the wall just above Christine's head. The painting was full of colourful shapes and swiggles that didn't make a whole lot of sense. Christine thought it was kind of like looking inside her head.
Lady Hannah still hadn't said anything, and she didn't seem too alarmed, Christine wasn't sure if she'd done a good thing or not. After all, the whole point of being Circle Daybreak was to do good things, right?
"Whatever this is, maybe it has some sort of soul and it can be a real person if we find it and help it before they hunt it down like an animal," she suggested.
"Escaped," Lady Hannah echoed. "I don't suppose you heard if they had any leads on where the creature might have gone?"
Christine shook her head. "No, they didn't say."
"Thanks Chrissie, that's a helpful thing that you told us." Lady Hannah smiled warmly.
Christine breathed a sigh of relief. "Look, there's I just want to know - what is this creature?"
Lady Hannah shook her head. "It's best that we don't tell everyone at this early stage."
"Is it dangerous?"
"It could be, and we don't want to cause panic, understand?"
Christine nodded. Well, at least she'd done her good deed for that day. Maybe this creature wasn't such a bad person. Just cause it was a creature, that didn't mean it didn't have feelings.
"Don't worry," Lady Hannah smiled reassuringly. "We'll find it before it can do any damage."
Christine nodded, but she couldn't help thinking, she was kind of curious to see what this creature could do.
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Christine hesitated outside Thierry's office in the Circle Daybreak mansion. She didn't know if she should tell or not. The Night World had a completely different opinion of it than she did.
She couldn't understand why they treated it so poorly. If they wanted to creature to work for them, use it's powers for them, then why keep it locked in a basement?
"Chrissie? What is it? You've been hovering around for at least fifteen minutes."
Christine cringed as Lady Hannah approached her. Old story, she'd been so wrapped in her own thoughts she'd forgotten there were other people around. One of her great faults, that. Sometimes living in her own head was more preferable to reality.
Occasionally she came out into the real world and learned things. "I found something out. I heard Anton and Martha talking, and I'm not sure if I should repeat it or not." She couldn't bring herself to meet Lady Hannah's eyes.
Lady Hannah was one of the important people, why should she be interested in what an ordinary witch like Christine had to say?
"Please, do tell me. If Anton and Martha have something to say, then it's usually very important." Lady Hannah was actually interested?
"Well, um," Christine stared at her bare feet on the beige carpet, "they were talking about the latest buzz in the Night World, and they're all angsty and on edge cause it's escaped."
Lady Hannah was silent. She stared at a strange painting on the wall just above Christine's head. The painting was full of colourful shapes and swiggles that didn't make a whole lot of sense. Christine thought it was kind of like looking inside her head.
Lady Hannah still hadn't said anything, and she didn't seem too alarmed, Christine wasn't sure if she'd done a good thing or not. After all, the whole point of being Circle Daybreak was to do good things, right?
"Whatever this is, maybe it has some sort of soul and it can be a real person if we find it and help it before they hunt it down like an animal," she suggested.
"Escaped," Lady Hannah echoed. "I don't suppose you heard if they had any leads on where the creature might have gone?"
Christine shook her head. "No, they didn't say."
"Thanks Chrissie, that's a helpful thing that you told us." Lady Hannah smiled warmly.
Christine breathed a sigh of relief. "Look, there's I just want to know - what is this creature?"
Lady Hannah shook her head. "It's best that we don't tell everyone at this early stage."
"Is it dangerous?"
"It could be, and we don't want to cause panic, understand?"
Christine nodded. Well, at least she'd done her good deed for that day. Maybe this creature wasn't such a bad person. Just cause it was a creature, that didn't mean it didn't have feelings.
"Don't worry," Lady Hannah smiled reassuringly. "We'll find it before it can do any damage."
Christine nodded, but she couldn't help thinking, she was kind of curious to see what this creature could do.
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