Page 51 of Shattered Darkness

I am suddenly the sole focus of all of my men and their heated stares, I squirm, “Yeah, that’s not helpful guys, quit looking at me like that.”

They of course ignore me and start to take a step closer to me, all of them. I know for a fact that if they touched me now I wouldn’t stop them and we wouldn’t stop and all of our magic could potentially explode most likely this wing of the castle and the Order would then have the perfect excuse to arrest us and strip our magic.

I’m rambling.

However, before they can reach me Knot and Ghost appear in the middle of the room, in an explosion of magic. They instantly rush to me, and start to check me over to make sure I’m not harmed.

“Whoa, what’s wrong with them?” Mav asks, as the heat in the room dissipates, thanks to the interrupition which is actually probably a good thing.

Chapter Seventeen

“I don’t know,” I say as they both closely study me, still spinning around me and starting to make me feel dizzy.

“Something has them riled up,” Hunter says with a frown as he starts to scan the room, looking for signs of danger.

I hold my hands up, making my familiars pause, finally and ask, “What’s wrong? Do we need to leave? Go somewhere? What’s going on?”

Knot communicates with me in the unique way that she does, and understanding fills me as I stroke them both, trying to calm them and reassure them that I’m okay.

“They were blocked from coming to me. They’ve been stuck on the edge of the academy grounds and only just made it back in; they couldn’t even do their usual fade-in and out thing to get to me,” I explain to the guys, who all look incredibly curious.

“That explains their panic,” Hunter replies.

“Why couldn’t they get in though?” Kai asks.

I shrug, still stroking them, “I have no idea, and neither do they. They said something was blocking them, but they don’t know what.”

“That’s really strange and something that we need to make sure that we look into. We don’t want that to happen again,” Levi says, his arms crossed over his chest.

“I don’t think they’re going to be going anywhere without me for a while,” I reply, and they both chirp in agreement, nodding their heads just in case we were in any way unsure that they were agreeing with my statement.

“Good.”

“Sage,” the Goddess's voice rings through the room completely out of the blue, and judging from the guy's faces, they can hear her too.

“Yeah?” I reply when she doesn’t say anything else.

“I can’t get hold of Cain; he won’t reply, and I’m worried about him after he found his friend like he did. Can you find him and tell him to come home, please?”

“Erm yeah, of course I can,” I reply, my mind whirring over the wording that she’s used.

“Thank you, he’s in the stables. Please hurry,” she replies, and then, just like that, her presence disappears.

“That was weird,” Kai states.

“Yeah, but when the Goddess asks you to do something, you do it,” I reply as I stand up. “I take it you’re all coming with me?”

“Yeah,” Kai replies.

“Obviously,” Jax says.

I chuckle as Ghost makes himself comfortable on my shoulder, resting his head on the top of mine, and Knot turns into her fox form and practically glues herself to my leg.

“Yeah, they aren’t letting you out of their sight for a while,” Levi smirks.

“Nope,” I reply as we head out the door.

I’ve only been to the stables a couple of times, but I’m relatively sure that I remember the way, and so I set off in the direction. Thankfully, it's not late enough that we’re likely to be stopped and questioned by the teachers, so at least that’s one less thing to worry about.

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