Walking along the streets had gotten too tiring for me so we had opted to borrow an abandoned car for the trip. Once we arrived at our destination and I stepped out in front of the home I had spent years in, I felt my heart break. Nasroque had been here, or at least he had sent someone to do his dirty work for him. I could only hope that my birth parents had managed to get out and save themselves. The door was laying in shreds in the yard, and all of the front windows were smashed. It looked as though a hurricane had come past, and I briefly wondered if the building was even safe to be in, it honestly looked to me like it could collapse at any second. “Stephi?” I had been standing frozen in place while staring at the ruins which were once my home, Sam’s soft voice pulling me from my

