As I made my way down the staircase, I couldn’t help but to think about the fact that they had simply left, and somehow they had managed to do so without needing me to unlock my front door. It was just one more thing that I would need to add to the list of things that I didn’t understand, the list of things that I didn’t have answers for—a list of things that I wasn’t likely to get answers for, either.
Strangely enough, my heart didn’t feel as at ease as I thought it was going to be, as I thought I would have been now that they were gone. There was this strange ache in my chest, an emptiness that I hadn’t thought would be there. I hadn’t even considered the possibility that it would be there. I didn’t think that Cerberus had been around long enough for me to have gotten attached to him—h
