by Hayley Campbell

Created on: April 24, 2009

DARKNESS LULLABY (part 3) (part 1 is in Novel excerpts: vampries, part 2 is in novel excerpts: fantasy)

"How are things, Nathalie?"

"Just fine, Rikken, what brings you here?" She hadn't looked away from him since she opened the door.

Rikken softly took her hands from his arms and, looking over to me, said, "I found her."

Nathalie looked at me once and for a moment; her face lost its smile, but quickly regained it when she looked at Rikken. "Come with me." She said leading the way. Once I was in the mansion, she shut the door.

"This is Adria." Rikken said as we three stood at the bottom of one of the two staircases.

"Ah. Yes. Adria, why don't you go fetch Benjamin for me? He's bound to be around here somewhere."

"Sure." I said turning a corner. When I did, a guy stopped me and told me to be quiet. "Hmm?"

"Quiet, listen." He repeated. I understood why he did this. Nathalie and Rikken were talking only to where you could hear if you were dead quiet. The person next to me, I presumed to be Benjamin. He had an accent like Nathalie and the same color hair. Through our silence, I could hear their conversation.

"Oh, don't give me that Rikken!"

"It's nothing, I told you."
"Come on! When I saw you look at her, that's what gave it away, you know. I could practically feel the pandemonium erupting inside of you!"

"Give it a rest Nathalie! I'm her guardian and nothing more."

"You can be as tenacious in defense as you want, but I know the truth."

"Really, if you're going to have callowness about this, I'm going to find Adria."

"Rikken! Look," she said, starting to sound exasperated, "it's so obvious. I didn't want to believe it when you talked about her before, but now that I've seen you two togetherand the way you look at her"

"You can't be serious Nat."

"I am, I am. I remember a month ago when we were talking updates. You had this subtle, yet salient to me, tone of voice when you talked of her. It was like you were trying too hard to cover up the fact that you were fond of her."

"Nevertheless, it doesn't matter. My feelings DO NOT matter when it comes to her safety. You know that."

It took some time to let this all sink in. So many questions were stirring in my mind. I couldn't handle any more information, so I took Benjamin by the arm and led him out from around the corner. I announced my presence by saying, "I found him." Both of them turned to face me. I let go of him and went to stand next to Rikken. Benjamin then took it upon himself to break the sudden awkward silence

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