Epilogue
One year after Lucius killed Tempest he was still torturing himself. He had not suddenly become a nice person; he just could not shake the image of her lifeless body from his mind.
He also had unfinished business, he had 15 pieces of the mirror and now he had no idea where the 16th was.
In the time since Tempest had gone and taken the mirror with her, Lucius had so many unanswered questions: where was the mirror now? She had mentioned the guardians had more than one life, did Tempest?
The idea started to formulate, if she had more than one life and she was a cat … could she actually have 9 lives? If she did where was she now? She said the pendant would take the guardian to their next life, if so did she still have it?
He started to look into her family and life. Surely if one had more than one life surely you would make provisions for it in this one? Had she money or property to go to?
It took almost another year of searching and detective work before he came across a castle in Scotland that had been in her family since it was built. He had searched other properties to no avail, but this one felt different. He decided to go check it out.
When he arrived at the castle he found that it was now used as hotel, he was sure that she could not be here now, but he looked around and asked some questions anyway. He discovered that the top floor of the castle was kept as private quarters by the owner and he ascertained that the owner was a woman. He checked into the hotel and took a room on the highest floor available.
Once he was in the privacy of his own room he sneaked up to the next floor. Quietly searching the rooms and finding nothing. Finally he opened the door to a bedroom; it was filled with large imposing pieces of antique oak furniture, the largest of which was a large four post bed with heavy deep red drapes. Turning away from the bed he realised he was not alone in the room…
Standing in front of the imposing fireplace he saw a woman standing with her back to him. She wore a long black silk gown, the back of which dipped so low that it barely skimmed the top of her buttocks. There was very little of her back showing however as a thick plait of hair fell down beyond the level of the dress.
He was considering whether to leave before she saw him, but she turned and he came face to face with familiar violet eyes. She smiled at him "Ahh Lucius…" she said smoothly "I've been expecting you!"
The End