The roots came to an gradual end as the contrast of flat grass came in view and soon was underfoot. It looked well maintained, as well as the fronts of the castle actually. Sure it looked old and was an unruly mess from afar but up close you could clearly tell that someone has tried to but in the end failed to clean the outside. The tinted windows prevented me from seeing the condition inside the castle, was window tinting even invented the time the castle was built? I don't remember, my awful memory these days.
For a while we just stood there observing all the things that did not add up.
"When was window tinting invented?"
I asked the group while my eyes stayed glued and observant for any other loose ends.
My answer was met with a silence so I turned around.
The two tigers were thinking and gave me a look of uncertainty, fox just shrugged and Dominic completely ignored me. What did I do to him?!
He seems to really hate me but when I think back I can't seem to remember anything bad I did to him. Now is not the time to think about it, mentally shaking my head I went back to observing the structure of abnormalities in front of my eyes.
Then noticing the soft hues of the sun and the bluer sky I remembered that we had to be in the castle by sunrise. If we read the note correctly that is.
I took the first step onto the plushy grass and continue to walk with the expectation that the others would follow suite, and follow suite they did.
This goddamn castle was the reason we're here so it better be worth it. Rustling in the trees behind us sounded and I started running towards the big building. The people all caught up as they would of heard the rustling earlier. We raced to the castle so that the shadow guards wouldn't catch us. With a determination to cure my rare curiosity. We ran towards the building and when we got close inwardly I groaned at the sight of a plain wall. There was no door in sight. So what did I do? I kept running but turn right and started to run around the huge building in search of an entrance.
We ran for what felt like hours when we arrived at what seemed to be the front door. What the sad thing was, was that we did three turns in order to reach the door.
The waste of energy. Do wonder were the shadow guards went. Welp at least they're not dragging us back to the school.
The front door was very grand, obviously we missed a back door somewhere along the way but I'd much rather treat my eyes to this beauty. There was a garden out front which took from the stereotypical royal front garden. Hedges, nicely cut into different elegantly sculptures that were still maintained by some mysterious force that also by my guess maintained the back lawn. There was grass over the entire front garden that was cut and also maintained recently. Then the smooth tar road cut through the middle of the garden in an elegant manner that cut the garden into two half. Like a red carpet but black. Last but not least the two water fountains that had no water running through and a sculpture of a mermaid as the centre piece of each half of the front garden.
This was all contained within a metal fancy fence which went into an embellished meet at the gate to the tar road. All this plus the flat stairs which were flat and were styled in a circular motion from the platform that was in front of the embellished wooden front door. These people were so rich. We however just cut straight through and up the stairs to the marble platform and turned the curved golden handle on the left side downwards. The smooth metal was free of any damage or stains as I trued to turn it.
"It's locked," I informed them in a calm voice.
I turned around to see the return expressions of that statement.
I saw a few sighs and frowns. It should of been expected, an abandoned castle that was left unlocked? Unlikely.
Then again this doesn't exactly fall into the abandoned castle category.
Fix pushed through.
"Let me," she said while walking in front of me.
She knocked on the door and I shook my head at the absurdity of the situation if the door did unlocked. Which of course since god likes an angel and not a demon it unlocked and then even opened up for the angel faced fox who sweetly smiled back at my defeated expression. I also swore I heard a chuckle from Dominic who suspiciously had his hand covering his mouth. Both the doors opened to reveal a grand hall that had stairs on either side going up and some other rooms down a corridor down the middle then more things on either sides of the room. The room seemed to have a theme of gold and red, this made a regal setting perfect for the first room of a castle. First impressions are important.
Luke a well trained team we decided that we'd go through the middle corridor and through the silence with a few discrete hand gestures made the decision to stick together and not split.
We walked down the hallway and kept going with pride holding our shoulders back and nobility keeping our backs straight. Purposely put down steps and no mistakes were took to be made. Luke businessmen our expressions held our dignity and maturity while we skipped all the rooms and went to the end because we were all greedy bastards. The room doors were all embellished but completely the same, if your eyes travelled down the hallway then you'd notice the almost overly decorated door at the back.
"Well let's see what makes these doors so special,"
I said this out loud and got silence in return but I felt the grins creeping up onto those greedy faces of the people behind me. Humans, we are all the same.