As soon as they left , his smile faded . It looked like he already knew what they did but he needed them to do their jobs . I didn't know how or when he found out about it , but it was clearly not why I came to meet him . " novis ! " My spells weared off of me and Jasper jumped because of my sudden sound .
"What are you ?" He asked as soon as I was visible . I was only stupid to wait for a 'Who are you?' from him . Shrugging , I replied , "I should be asking YOU that . Who are YOU to research on our kinds ?" I hadn't really prepared any questions to ask and I also hadn't decided whether I had to act friendly , or bold so I ended up being a character who worried for their kind , being kind , yet talking boldly .
He seemed to believe me just like that that I was a supernatural creature . It wasn't totally unexpected because he WAS an author who wrote about people like us .
"You're not a supernatural creature that I know ! You would have been detected otherwise !" He ran to one of the rooms on the ground floor of his ancient designed house . It was anciently designed but it was looking great .
"You don't know about Berthims ?" I asked surprised . If he didn't know about Berthims , how will he know about another one of a rare supernatural creature ?
He had shook his head to my question , typed something in his laptop and said not looking at m. , " I don't know about them but from the looks of it , you're here to ask me something related to that ."
I nodded even though he couldn't see me . "Now tell me what all characteristics your kind of Berthims have ? " I didn't have time for it so I just cut straight to the point . "Look Jasper , I really don't have time for this but I WILL help you if you help me first . " It took less than a minute to setup a comfortable chair for both of us to sit .
"What help do you want ?" His breathless voice from arranging the chairs made me chuckle . I took out the carving and gave it to him . "Do you know anything about this carving ?" His eyes flew open , almost resembling Luke's reaction when he saw the carving .
"Where did you get this ?" He looked scared . He was looking around frantically , and it creeped me . Luke had also told me to get away from the people I was looking for . I would've gladly did that but the Berthim side in me already made them my next target .
"That's not what I want to talk about right now , Just tell me everything you know about this carving and I'll leave here , without bothering you ever again . If you're scared that the creature is going to attack you , don't worry , I won't let them near you . " He didn't calm down . He breathed heavily and kept on saying , "Don't , .. Don't..."
Whatever he was seeing in front of him , I needed to know . Without wasting another second , I grabbed his arm and started looking into his life story .
He himself wasn't normal . I saw many pictures of his child self , as well as pictures of other kinds of beasts . Those pictures weren't enough for me to understand him so I spelled , "motus!" . This allowed me to see all the pictures in movement , filling in blank spaces .
Jasper wasn't a human either . He had the same carving with him . It was born with him , the carving . When he grew up , he knew how to summon the demon naturally . The demon got in his body and controlled him . I didn't see if this was an advantage or disadvantage because according to me , this wasn't beneficial for any of the people who got the carving since their birth . I also didn't understand why he was scared when he saw the carving . Was it because it had the power to control him or something else ?
I took my hand away from him and looked at him . "Why were you looking pale when you saw the carving when all I see is that it can control you ?" Sure , it is scary that it can control you but you were way too pale . What does it make you do?"
He lowered his head in shame and said in a low voice , " They make us kill people , frame other people , and many other dangerous stuff . We don't know why they make us do them at all !" He was both hurt and helpless , mentally and physically at the same time , he started crying . I only knew about my kind in the supernatural world so I researched to find more about them . The securities are Vampires and Wizards . I don't fire them just because they badmouth me because if I'm angry , my carving summons itself in me and I might end up killing somebody . I'm one of the men that tried killing Benjamin . "
Well , I didn't expect that I would get 1/3rd part of my answer this fast but I knew that he meant no bad towards any of us . " Listen Jasper , I want you to tell me who the others were , and why you chose Benjamin to kill , ok ? I won't tell anybody and will also make sure that they stop investigating . "
He still didn't like seeing the carving right in front of him but he told me the others. I had an electric wave pass me when I heard the name . "I don't know the third guy's name because he just tagged along with the second guy . His name was Warner . "
But then why did Ben ask me to free him and tell me that he was just a wizard who wanted to try the carving out ?!
"See you tomorrow to hear the rest of the story . Bye . " I stood up and ran out and tried the front door when I saw that it needed a password .
"What is it ?! Fast!" I grabbed him fast from the sofa and back to the front door . He quickly entered the password without asking me the reason .
"I'm taking one of your cars , ok ?" It was totally absurd that I was talking the way I was talking to my favourite author but I wasn't in a situation to be nice , obviously.
He looked like he wanted to protest but I wouldn't take no for an answer . "Bye ! Be back later !"