He led me down a set of stairs.

Moving while invisible was weird to me, I felt like I should have been hiding from the students in the library but they really couldn't even see me.

Down we went deeper into the heart of the library.

"Careful of the ghosts."

He said as we reached the bottom of the stairs.

"The what?" "Ghosts."

Ghosts? In the library? I didn't like this already but still I followed Sebastian who was able to get us past the ghosts and dow another set of stairs.

We had to be well into the inside of the earth by now with how many stairs we had gone down.

He removed his Disillusionment charm and I could see him again. I did the same and I was also visible again.

"What are we looking for exactly?"

He asked me as he began to look at rows of ancient books that were stacked on shelves and shrouded with cobwebs.

"Books on sea magic. You said you knew where they were." "Ah,"

He said, his tone arrogant.

"Over here."

He gestured to a set of books stacked on a shelf. They were all the same color with similar symbols marking the spines. To my surprise, the symbols made sense to me. I placed my fingers on the spine of one of the books and read the symbols aloud.

"Spells of the Sea."

Sebastian walked over to where I stood. He looked at the book I had my finger on.

"You can read that?"

He asked as he tried to decipher the symbols for himself.

"You can't?"

I asked and he shook his head.

"That's the language of the bluebloods. All sea magic is written in it. That's why I gave up on it. I couldn't read any of it. Wait a minute."

He froze and seemed to be studying me. Hey no fair... that was my job.

"Can breathe under water... can read an ancient ocean language... you don't think..." "I am not a blue blood." "Are you sure?"

He asked me and I thought about it, really thought about it. No I wasn't sure. But there was one way to find out.

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"Do you have a knife?"

"A whAT?"

Sebastian turned to look at me with an expression that read as surprise and concern. One was I was sure I wouldn't see from him again in a while.

"A knife. Or a blade really, anything sharp."

"Why?"

"I need to cut my palm."

"Why would you need to do that?"

"Blue bloods."

I said as I looked down at my hand, studying it.

"What if I am one? Then my blood would be blue, wouldn't it?"

"And you just want to cut yourself open to find out?"

"How else would I find out?"

"We could go ask your aunt."

Marina. Of course. She had seemed like there was more to this- more to me- than she had cared to explain. She would know.

She was probably waiting for me to come to her with this question so she could spin some kind of grand explanation.

"Right."

I said.

"We'll go see my aunt."

Sebastian nodded.

"But first, I want these books."

I told him and grabbed as many books on Sea Magic as I could cary. I looked to sebastian.

"Help me. Carry the ones I can't hold."

He moved quickly and grabbed any left over books that wouldn't fit in my arms or my bag.

"We'll have to go back the same way we came in."

He told me and flicked his wand, using the disillusionment charm, he was invisible once again. I did the same.

"And the librarian might be back this time, I'm not sure how long her break is. We'll need to be extra careful."

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The librarian wasn't back.

We made it out of the library easily and once safely outside we both removed our invisibility charms.

"Professor River's class room is this way." Sebastian said as he led the way once more. I noticed that I really would have been lost in this castle without him.

I didn't know how Ominis did it, really, I was having a hard time finding my way around with perfect vision. I know I couldn't do it if I were blind.

You wont read this often so make note of it for now, but I was actually thankful for Sebastian.

He knew where Marina's office was and I still couldn't find my way around the castle by myself without getting completely lost.

And honestly, I think he knew that. But he gave me the decency not to mention it as we made our way down the corridor to where my aunt's classroom was.

I wasn't taking Mythology so I never got to see her classroom before now. It was empty of students and any other people really, but the classroom itself was truly something else.

The floor what white marble and the walls a deep ocean blue. Lining the room where greek pillars, also white marble. The ceiling was full of stars like the great hall but minus the candles.

Her office was at the end of the room, a door with greek letters on it that I assumed spelled something like "office" or "teacher".

Sebastian went to knock on the door but when his fist made contact with the wood the door creaked open.

"Professor River?"

He called, no answer. He slowly stepped inside and it was obvious her office had been ransacked.

"Oh no..."

He breathed as he stepped inside of the office. Skeletons and papers had been strone about. Chairs were overturned and portraits were ripped off the wall.

Something had happened here, obviously a struggle. Sebastian waved his wand.

"Revelio."

He said and something on Marina's desk began to glow. Sebastian stepped forward and picked up a letter.

SEREIA was written on the cover and he handed it to me.

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Sereia

I wish he had more time.

I am so beyond sorry. I brought you here, to hogwarts, because I had always thought it would be the safest place for you, for your kind.

Obviously I was wrong. The truth must be found, you must find it on your own. I'm so sorry but there is no future for you unless you uncover who you are, it is too much for me to tell you now I don't have much time.

They're coming for you. Please read the book and for more information travel to the restricted section of the library (ask Sebastian to take you, he's gotten in there on his own more times then I can count.) water has memory. Be brave.

Marina

The last family I had was gone. Someone had taken her.

"What's that?"

Sebastian asked as he leaned over my shoulder and looked down at the note.

"Water has memory?" He asked.

"How is that supposed to help?" "Water has memory...."

I uttered. I thought about it. Water has memory. Where had I heard that before? It was somewhere tucked in the back of my brain. Someone had said that to me ages before. But it didn't matter.

"How can water have memory?" Sebastian asked.

"How can it not?" I

replied and began to rifle through my bag for something.

"What do you mean?" Sebastian asked.

"Water travels everywhere. There is nothing it hasn't seen."

I continued to search through my bag and he noticed.

"What are you doing." "There!"

I pulled out a glass vile with water.

"What is that?" He asked.

I sighed softly. This was me, this was my connection, this was what had raised me. I didn't tell him all of that, of course, he would have thought I was actually crazy. So I told him the truth.

"This is sea water from my home." I told him and pulled the cork from it.

"Whatever it is that Marina is trying to tell me... I feel as if it has something to do with them, with who I am. I don't know what happened to them on that day they died but I know one thing for certain, the water saw it. The water knows."

I tapped my wand to the rim of the glass vile and the water floated up and out. It moved through the air and grew. It expanded into a thin sheet and froze into ice.

It rested on the wall like a mirror. Sebastian and I looked at each other and then at the ice. Within the ice, something began to take shape, an image. An island.

My home.