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“What is it?” Another boy, who appeared to be around his age, blurted “What’s it eat? Can I hold it?”

Looks were often deceiving though. He seemed to be a human.

“It’s a wolf spider.” Sage answered, “And it eats other bugs, typically hunting things like crickets or ants. Do you want to hold it?”

“No. And it doesn’t matter!” Another boy squeak/growled and desperately scrambled for a large book. He was going to kill the spider! “It could be poisonous and kill us.”

“But it’s not!” Sage defended, “I thought it was a tarantula for a moment, but it’s really just a wolf spider!”

The adult who was in the immediate area shook his head, holding up the hand that the first boy wasn’t clutching, and staring pointedly at the other one. “But if you smash it, it may just come back again. Larger.”

Hey, he’s right. Where’s that book? Wait, but wouldn’t it hurt the spider?

“Do not test that.” The man sharply commanded.

Sage was about to defend himself, when the man hushed him. “Don’t.”

“Is it hated in your world because it’s different too?” The first boy asked, staring up at him with wide, inquiring dark eyes.

“Not because it’s different…” The man sighed, “Different helps us grow. But their bites kill people. My father-in-law… almost died, because of a bite. He lost a leg. I don’t want any of us to get hurt.”

He sounded a bit like Mother. No, a bit like Father. Now Sage was confused.

“But it’s not poisonous,” Sage added, “And it’s not even big enough to take someone’s leg off.”

Saga, who didn’t look very convinced, cringed in the corner. Very unusual of him. Then again, he didn’t like spiders or snakes much.

 

Where was he? This looked entirely wrong. There was so much light. So much.

“So good to see you, Hades Irving.”

!!!

“Yes, I know your name.”

Amnesia. Could this be Amnesia?

“I know you have many questions, but I shall answer none of them. For one trial is yet to be completed,”

Pain. It felt like a sword was impaled through his chest. He hadn’t felt pain like this in a long time.

“Go, return to the group. Prepare for your Trial of Malice and Vengeance.”

Marvelous. And that was sarcasm.

 

“I’m sorry Mr. Spi-is it a boy or a girl?” Alessio took the spider, “It won’t get hurt if I throw it, righ-?”

A loud lady aggressively bellowed over them. “Not out the window!”

“Please don’t throw it out the window.” Sage asked.

The other adult, who had been making disgusted looks, gagged as the spider sailed through the air. He was currently seated on a couch, seemingly disturbed by the spider.

“I have a jar! And it has a lid.” Another woman spoke. “You can put it inside with some…leaves from the foundation. Inside this jar. Now.”

She was looking at him and the other boy. The spider was safe.

“I’m sorry!” The boy stammered and backed into the man, who startled at the touch.

A third boy, once again around the same age, howled louder than a wolf, before leaping on the couch. Was he afraid of the spider too? “Stand up! Get up, you baffoon. It might get me!”

He shoved the nice boy. Now he made the nice looking man fall of the couch.

“MOVE.” Ohel barked.

Sage picked up the spider, looking at the woman holding the jar. “Is there a transparent container we can use to hold him in? I’d rather not shove him in a jar like this.”