The Untold Story of Castle Entered Book 1

Chapter Five

Jason shakes his head solemnly.

"I was afraid this would happen."

Chris smiles.

"Weren't we all afraid this would happen? Honestly Darin, you have to control yourself."

Chris is smiling and obviously joking as he shakes his head at Darin. Jason looks more nervous than happy, but definitely looks relieved.

Rama is still sitting on Darin, frozen in terror. He is still shaking and the bloody tears still drip from his eyes. He strokes Darin's hair gently and stares into his emerald eyes. A small smile slowly stretches across his face and he laughs. Relieved, he hugs Darin tightly and kisses him. Then he stops before making Darin even more emotional. His eyes are still red, but a paler red with a sort of blue shining behind them, like when he drank Darin's blood and his eyes turned blue, only this blue is only partially coming into his eyes. This only means that he is very relieved. His wings flap lightly as he smiles more and laughs again.

"You're back!!"

He bounces up and down on top of Darin for a moment and then stops.

"Ooops...sorry."

He blushes a little and Jason watches his behaviour curiously. Jason has never seen Rama blush. Then again, he was seeing plenty of Rama that he had never seem before. Where had all of this complexity in Rama come from? Why was he acting this way? How could he feel? What was his reason for sticking around so long? What was his reason for wanting to help? Jason just stares at Rama in disbelief, pondering these questions.

Rama just holds Darin's hand and laughs.

"Well I guess that plan didn't go too well. Maybe we can feed you another way. Oh, whatever."

Rama looks out the hole in the wall.

"Hey, it's almost dawn! It's about two hours until sunrise. Oh shit. We need to get you and Chris outta here now."

By 'you' he means Darin of course.

"We need umm...a basement or something. Aaron, does this place have a basement? Oh whatever, we just need somewhere that is completely blocked off from the sunlight And..."

A horrified look goes into his eyes.

"Oh no. They blocked her. Him. It. I can't find it anymore. I've been tracking that...thing in Dianna and I've lost it! I knew her plan! I've been reading her mind at times and now it's...gone!! It must have been that damn priestess. Damn it!!!"

Rama growls and bares his fangs looking out the hole in the wall. Then slowly, as if it just dawned on him, he looks at Aaron.

"You yelled at me."

Jason rolls his eyes. Chris mutters 'idiot', and smiles faintly as he moves forward to speak.

"Well, I did make a protective spell. It is a very good one. It should keep this place and this room safe from intrusion at least for the day while we sleep...of course, it would help if you would stop glaring at the barrier, Rama."

He mutters under his breath 'lousy stupid demon' low enough so Darin doesn't hear it.

Rama is still looking at Aaron.

"You called me an idiot."

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Darin grins sheepishly, one hand scratching the back of his head.