Chapter Ten: An Unusual Yet Helpful Stranger

Atzi continued to shift through many volumes and tomes she pulled off the dusty shelves. Each she looked through didn't have any clue or answer for a curse breaker.

She almost gave up when she heard a book fall on the hardwood floor. Atzi looked up from the book in her hands and closed it slowly.

She crouched in the aisle and began to walk slowly towards the back of the room. Her brown eyes looked all over, trying to catch a glimpse of what made that book fall.

She heard scurries across the floor. Atzi grew anxious and a bit scared. "Who's there?" She asked in a shakey voice. There was no reply.

She asked again only to hear another falling book hit the floor. Her footsteps creaked on certain places on the wooden floor.

She then caught a glimpse of red eyes in a shadow part of the area before they disappeared. Atzi jumped surprised but stood in place.

Atzi slowly walked towards where she say the eyes were last seen. In her hands, she held a thick book as a weapon.

The red eyes appeared again and Atzi froze. She waited and the eyes seemed to come towards her. "W...wait..don't come any closer.."

The eyes kept going towards her til it's identity was revealed. It was a small black mouse.

"Huh?..a..a mouse? That was you..?" Atzi breathed a sigh of relief and knelt near it.

The mouse crawled near her and gave a soft squeak. She lowered her hand to see if it would let her hold it.

The mouse carefully crawled in her hand and squeaked again. Atzi stood up and looked at it.

She was able to identify it as a girl. "Well now little Miss...why are you here...?"

The mouse squeaked and pointed her nose to a old desk just past the shelves. Atzi went to it and turned the desk lamp on.

She placed the mouse on it and she scurries to a folder. Atzi opens it to see a picture of a young girl with black hair.

"Who's this..?" Atzi asked aloud as she read the dusty pages. The mouse only squeaked.

Atzi looked at the information..the name was faded out.  It spoke of Damon capturing the girl and using her as a magic test subject to practice on.

"...is this girl...you?" Atzi asked the mouse. The mouse nodded and squeaked.

Atzi understood her squeaked and asked if she knew anything about curses. She described Motus' curse to the mouse and the mose looked at a giant tome on a nearby pedestal.

Atzi walked over and flipped through its large pages. She came across one that had a giant moon on it. It told of making ones inner wolf stay out.

Before she could finish reading, she heard the doors open. In a panic she ripped the page out and ducked behind some shelves. 

"Her scent was trailing into here..." a deep voice barked. A group of three men spread out into the room and began looking around.

Atzi continued to hide. The mouse squeaked and ran towards the men. She scurried around their feet, making them distracted.

Atzi realized it was a diversion and ran to a window near by. As she climbed out she heard a sudden squeak of the mouse followed by the laughter of the men.