Cassius

ORIGINS pt1

Below the sea, Cass was considered insignificant. It was only as he saw a corpse slowly drifting down into the depths that he felt something stir inside of him. There was nothing he could do as he watched them fall. They were already dead. He could tell from a mile away. The only striking thing about the corpse was its snow white hair, shining still as it drifted away to the sea floor.

They were desperate to find the meaning of this, to find a culprit, to find something. A corpse falling into the sea was no common occurrence. If it were a fisherman in a storm he wouldn’t have been surprised, but there was no storm, and there were no fisher boats. Cassius, a nameless creature, a pale doll in the sea, breached.

Their striking yellow eyes peered through his newly found white hair. Draped over his face like a veil. He swam to the shore, confused and disoriented about why he felt this way, about why his form changed so drastically. As they crawled out onto the sand, nails digging into the turf, he heard voices. Frantic voices. Scared voices. For a second, he considered crawling back into the ocean, to disappear into the depths as the corpse did.

Hesitation stopped him. He stared towards the voices, hair flowing from what little wind was present. Three figures, two with droopy white ears and one with brown hair with no ears visible. The two white eared figures dropped to their knees to embrace him. The other figure stood idle, a devastated expression stuck on their face.

“My son.” One said, putting their hands in his hair and kissing his forehead. “Oh…you’ve come back to us…”

Son?

“Are you alright? You’re so pale…you must be freezing.” The other said. “Come, Cecil! Cover my son with your coat!”

‘Cecil’ stepped forward, shedding their coat and draping it over Cass.

“We must get you back to the mansion…your siblings will be so pleased!”

He was no son of anyone.

Yet he couldn’t stop himself from rising with them, and being taken back to their domain.

He looked back at the sea one more time.

He remembered clearly now.

Another notable thing about that corpse.

A brick tied to their ankle.

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