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transformed into an exact copy of
the baby. She grabbed the duplicate and ran past the boy as he was about to
pass her. The boy chased after her and caught up in no time. 
    He
stabbed her and she screamed and fell to the ground. She tried to get away, but
it was useless. Her white gown was quickly soaked with gold blood. The woman
stopped and clutched the ground and…well, roots shot up from the ground. Don’t
give me that look! I’m not making this up. Anyway, they shot towards the boy
and I thought for a second she was going to be able to kill him. But the boy
had disappeared right before the roots impaled him. The woman was just as
confused as I was. Suddenly the boy was behind her, and before she knew what
was happening, he stabbed her in the back. The boy didn’t wait to watch her
die, but instead grabbed the duplicate infant and stabbed it over and over
again until he thought it was dead. The woman’s eyes trailed over to me and
with her last act she mouthed the words, ‘save her’. Then in a shower of light
the woman’s body was gone and replaced by a crystal. The boy looked down on it
and his eyes filled up with disgust. He was engulfed in shadows and was gone.”
    Jake
stopped. What came next was a sensitive subject for me. He had already told me
what happened when he came to get me. I had flipped out and burned him.
    “That
woman you saw was Siren,” The bookworm said. “Your suspicions were right, she
was not a human. She was a Guardian; Scarlet’s Guardian.” All my brothers
stared at him blankly. That was good. It meant I wasn’t the only clueless one.
    “That’s
impossible,” Vaze said. It surprised all my brothers because the most they’d
heard from him was harsh breathing. “Guardians haven’t taken any form other
than spirits for over a century, let alone a human form.”
    The
bookworm looked at him, as though he had just noticed Vaze’s presence, but the
bookworm never misses a single detail, which I personally know from the time I
tried to use three tiny books for a fire. I was caught immediately, but could
he really blame me? I was only four years old.
    “I
know, but that was because every mortal with incredible power died off, had gone
mad, or followed an evil path. And even then there was no one who could control
fire. In short, there was no need for Guardians to protect their humans from
both physical forces and demonic forces anymore, so they subsided to their
spiritual forms.” The conversation at hand made no sense to me, so I did the
only thing I knew how to do in a situation like this: ask obvious questions.
    “What’s
a Guardian?” Al asked the question I was about to ask, but in a nicer, possibly
less stupid sounding way.
    The
bookworm was about to answer when Seth took the spot light. “They’re real? I
thought they were just old stories.” Seth’s eyes were wide in amazement. He
wasn’t the kind of person who believes things he can’t see proof of for himself.
If he reads about something like vampires or wraiths, he would probably say
they just make up things like that to scare people. That’s a major difference
between us; I can believe things like that because it’s just as insane and
impossible as I am.
    Few
people think like him, but no one has seen anything out of the ordinary since
the kingdom of Moraj simply disappeared. Nobody knows how exactly the most
important kingdom in history vanished. The entire kingdom and its population
was just gone one day, leaving an open landscape where it used to be.
    Chaos
ensued when that had happened because Moraj was the capital, and where the
royal family lived, which were the rulers of the country. Without them there
was no one in control, and for a while there was complete disorder. Eventually,
the bigger towns became like small states, and the richest families became the
royal family of their state, Laetus being one of those. It made it kind of
boring when you met royalty because they weren’t really royalty; they