Chapter 56 · Awaken

"Aww," I jumped out of bed as my window crashed open letting in a flood of freezing rain over myself and my bed.

I don't know when this storm started but it must have been after I went to bed. I quickly pulled myself up and started to push my window shut before any more water got in.

Between fighting the wind and my sudden awaking it was a downhill battle which I only managed to win due to the wind stopping for just a few seconds in which time I slammed it shut.

However the damage had been done, everything from my night gown to my bed we're soaked. Even with the window closed, I could feel the night air chilling me.

Dam it, cant I even sleep without something going wrong.

I reached out to turn my light on and after doing so got changed. Nothing fancy after all I still want to go to bed but I had to ask my uncle if there was a different bedroom already set up.

So after finding a worn blue t-shirt, grey jogging bottom and throwing my soaked clothes into the corner of my room I headed into the hallway.

I crept along the wooden floorboards wishing I had remembered socks as my foot feel silently on the very cold floor. I new was I would find my uncle as he was a terrible night owl, working onto late at night then sleeping too often late in the afternoon.

The hallways were dark only being lit by the odd flash of lightning from the storm outside. The normal sounds of the house drowned out from the tapping of rain almost like it got inside. Each second the rain seemed to worsen gaining and ever-increasing pace making seem almost musical in someway like the ending of a grand performance.

I stopped and looked out at the window however not seeing much from the lack of light.

"I hope Zoe made it back before it started raining," I whispered looking out.

I stood just watching the odd crackle run across the sky lighting up the woods and surrounding country side. One second there would be nothing but darkness and my reflecting staring back as me before an almost blinding flash and a great boom showed the tops of trees whipping in the wind and sheets of silver rain pelting towards the earth. It truly was wonderful and wild.

I took it all in for a while maybe ten minutes before I noticed the odd tint of the flashes. At first, I faulted that maybe I was just sleepy but the more I look the more I was sure the lightning held a deep earthy green to themselves.

I shrugged. Maybe it was my magic sight. I mean it's not completely crazy that lightning was magic in someway and I had just never seen it before. Not like I can do anything about it. besides it is different and I wanted to see more of the world so this was as good as any place to start.

I turned back to the hallway and towards my uncle's study.

The study itself wasn't the actual study. It had been one of the bed room's before my uncle changed it adding a desk and cupboards. The real study had been connected to the library which my uncle never went to. Ever.

It took me a few more minutes to remember in which hallway it was but I finally got to the right place which was made clear from the light of the open door and the somewhat loud voice of my uncle that echo down the hall.