Prologue
Brown eyes sparkled curiously behind black frames as they stared across the water.
Their twelve year old owner moved them over to look at her best friend, who was also staring across the water.
“What do you think that is?” she asked.
“I don’t know,” he shrugged.
She turned back with a sigh.
That odd glow had been teasing them almost since they began their First Year. Interestingly enough, no one else seemed to notice it even though they had both asked everyone they could think of.
At this point, it could be anything.
“Think we should go over and look?” her best friend asked.
She thought about it. “Well, curfew isn’t for another,” she checked her watch, “almost four hours. But we have our tests next week, so we should really study for them…”
He stood and brushed himself off. “We have the rest of the week to study for them. It is only Monday, after all. Tell you what. If we go over there to check and don’t find anything, we’ll go back to school. Just until curfew gets closer.”
A small smile crossed her face at his pleading look. He would drive himself nuts trying to figure it out. She was curious, too.
“Alright,” she finally stood. “But we need to be back before curfew.”
“Then let’s go!” he beamed. “It’ll take us about an hour to get to the other side if we hurry.”
As they set off, it never once occurred to them to tell someone where they were going and it was partly because only the pair of them seemed to have noticed the glow from across the water. And they would have been correct in thinking that no one would believe them.
But neither noticed the figure that detached from the shadows as they went, their observer not worried about being detected.
The figure wasn’t about to stop them, because it was necessary for these two – and one in particular – to follow their curiosity.
Many future events would have happened a lot differently otherwise.
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