Annalise
Home. This was where Cassius lived. It wasn't much, not more than a slightly upgraded shack in the woods of some forest. I knew it was a forest from the crack in the wall next to me, leaving a slight draft. I dared to look around and saw that his home looked...sad. It wasn't the terrifying evil lair I had imagined. It was...lonely and old-looking, run down even. I felt sorry for him. I cursed myself for even taking that much pity on him and his home, where I was now to be his hostage, evident from the special magic collar he quickly fixated on me the second we arrived.
"This is your home?" I dared to ask. The more I knew, the better.
"Are you as deaf as you are stupid?" He snipped back, sitting in the corner of the room, tending to his wounds with some special pasty concoctio
