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It hadn't  been hard for Remus to break into the house. His black eyes had raked the house for a way into the prison that the girl was held captive in, a chink in its armor. He had found an alcove in the wall and- using the barred windows as hand holds- heaved himself up into it. Once in the alcove, he allowed his agility and instincts to take over, feeling the familiar rush of adrenaline. Remus placed both hands firmly on the window ledge above him and swung his body  of the alcove, feet resting between the spikes of the bars below. Gently and rather painfully, he let himself fill up the small space between the bars and the window, using h

Metallic Rome Chapter 1 Gasping, the girl awoke from her slumber. Sitting bolt up right, her covers pressed against her waist, she squinted into the inky blackness nervously, as if frightened of what the shadows may hold. Her nightmare was embedded in her eyelids- haunting images leered in her brain, taunting her, destroying any thoughts of happiness that tried to ebb their way into her mind. The terror in her eyes seemed to suck the remainder of the light in the room into a swirling vortex- until the room became a void of despair. Her pupils were tunnels of fear and lost hope, and her Iris seemed to fade  - as though the goddess of the rai