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The Secret Book

Chapter one:

He could see his breath; the white mist appeared and disappeared before his icy blue eyes. He kept his back pressed tightly against the stone wall as the cold from the icy stone bricks seeped through his rag of a shirt. His heart raced, beating faster than a galloping horse. His long arms reached up to find a narrow windowsill above him. His muscles screamed in pain as he pulled himself up to perch on the sill.

"There!" someone called. Alex had pulled himself up to the sill of the three-story house just as a group of armed men, clad in silver and green robes, rushed down the small alley.

He pulled himself onto the roof and dashed across it. Loose stones and rocks fell off the roof as he jumped between the small gaps between roofs. The young man's heart pounded in his head as he ran for his life. A dark figure jumped in front of Alex, causing him to lose his footing. The young man fell onto the ground with a bang. Blood trickled down from his dark hair onto his pale face. Weakly, he opened his eyes to face the dark figure looming over him, where only green eyes and a smirk could be seen under the hood. The figure reached out a hand. Alex pulled a book out of his pocket; then everything went black.