Page 73 of Shattered Darkness

“Did you catch who posted it?” He asks.

“No, they were gone by the time I got to the door,” I explain as I finally bend down and pick it up.

When I just continue staring at it, Mav nudges me, “What are you waiting for?”

I chuckle, “I don’t know really.” I open it up and start reading, relief coursing through me immediately, “I think we should risk a training session, wake everyone and meet me in the usual place. Cain.”

“He’s back?” Mav questions, “Thank fuck for that.”

“I guess the Goddess really did hear me,” I smile, “come on, let's wake the others up. They’re all going to feel a lot more at ease knowing that Cain is back. At least he’ll be able to deal with the teachers and Enforcer side of things.”

“Yeah, it will take some pressure off us,” Mav agrees, and then before I can stop him, raises his voice, “Wakey wakey everyone, rise and shine.”

While everyone else groans, Levi immediately jumps to his feet and asks, “What happened? Is everyone okay?”

“Everything is fine,” I tell him calmly, giving Maverick a look. He just shrugs with a smile, “we got a note from Cain. He wants us down in the gym for training.”

“Well, thank fuck for that,” Jett says, sounding relieved.

“Okay,” Levi says, rubbing a hand over his face in an attempt to wake himself up more, “everyone, head back to your rooms and get ready. We’ll meet in the hallway and Erin can cloak us before we head back down to the gym.”

“Hopefully, we’ll get some sort of explanation from Cain as well,” Harry says.

“I wouldn’t bet on it,” Damon says rather grumpily, he does not do well being woken up and tends to be grumpy until he gets some coffee in him.

Erin grins, “Don’t worry, I’ll get some coffee into him quickly before we get going.”

“Good idea,” I grin.

Within minutes everyone has dispersed to get changed into something they can fight in and I do the same. Once I’m dressed, I pause before I leave the room. Something in my stomach stirs, almost , but I don’t know why.

Maybe something that Cain is going to tell us is going to throw yet another spanner in the works and fuck things up.

I take a deep breath, trying to settle the feeling.

“Sage? Are you ready? We need to get going,” Kai calls from somewhere further into the room.

Opening my door, I quickly rush out smiling at the guys as the wait by the door for me.

“Ready?” Jax asks.

“Yep, let’s go,” I reply, a thread of excitement going through me at the thought of finally getting some answers and filling Cain in, hopefully he has some advice for us.

Once we’re in the hall it only takes a couple of minutes before everyone is gathered and ready to go.

I feel Erin’s magic surround us before she says, “Alright, we’re covered, let's go. Remember, that if anyone walks into you, they’re going to realise that something is amiss, so if we see any patrolling, Enforcers avoid them at all costs.”

“And things because you’ll knock them,” I add.

Everyone nods that they understand, and then we make our way through the quiet academy. I’m actually surprised that we don’t run into more Enforcers. We only saw four doing different patrols. I breathe out a sigh of relief as we get to the gym where we normally practice in, but as soon as we’re all through the door I know that something is wrong.

“Where’s Cain?” Maverick asks.

“I don’t know,” I reply, unable to shake the feeling of dread.

“He’s usually here by the time that we get here,” Erin agrees, a look of unease on her face as well.

“Maybe he’s just gotten caught up? There is a lot that he needs to catch up on; another teacher or Enforcer may have held him up,” Kysen suggests.

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