Page 1 of Whispered Warnings: Part Two

Chapter One

Neith

“Oh shit,” I reply. “What does that mean?”

“It means that we aren’t safe and that a breach that wasn’t there yesterday is suddenly there today, and I don’t know how.” Ransom replies with a heavy frown.

“Do you know where the breach is?” Evander asks.

Ransom nods, “Yeah, we need to get it fixed up now. We can’t risk leaving it open and something else coming through. There are worse things than Scavengers.”

“Let’s go,” Reed mutters.

I have absolutely no idea how we’re going to fix the breach, but before we can head into the woods to find the breach, Maeldoes his thing, and I end up on his back again. I guess that’s his way of telling me that he’s coming with us.

As I glance up with a smile, I’m shocked to see that the kelpies that were standing the closest to the guys, and the ones that I am assuming gave the guys their names, move so that they are knelt down on their front legs so the guys can easily climb on their backs. I guess none of them fancy launching the guys onto their backs like Mael does to me. I can’t say that I blame them. The guys aren’t exactly small men.

The guys look incredibly confused, and none of them make a move to get on the kelpies.

I smile and decide to help them out since we are on a time crunch, and we don’t have the time for them to figure it out by themselves.

“I think they are offering to take you to the breach,” I suggest, and Mael whinnies in response, which I’m hoping means that I am right, and the guys aren’t about to get eaten.

“Really?” River asks excitedly.

His kelpie snorts and nudges River’s leg. Apparently, that’s all the encouragement that River needs to get on, and his kelpie, the dark, murky green one, stands up, looking pleased with itself.

How is it that the kelpie somehow has a similar personality to River? If I didn’t know any better, then I would think that it meant something and wasn’t just a coincidence.

The other guys are still hesitating and honestly, I get why. Kelpies are very well known for how vicious they are, and yet they are standing with us, offering to take us to the breach so that we can fix it. That kind of behavior is unheard of.

“We just helped them, we saved them from being killed, and they have given you guys their names,” I say, and they all look up at me and River sitting on the kelpies. “Anyway, when are you going to get another chance to ride a kelpie?”

“Good point,” Raiden replies. He pats his kelpie’s neck and then slowly climbs up. His muscles tensing like he is preparing to launch himself off, just in case the kelpie decides to attack.

Obviously, it doesn’t and soon all of the others are climbing up as well.

“We need to get there quickly,” Ransom says. “I’ll take the lead.”

“Got it,” Evander replies, and we all take off.

We thunder through the woods, and it quickly becomes apparent to me that the kelpies' speed doesn’t seem to be hindered by the fact that they are on land. I always thought that they had to stay close to a water source and couldn’t move far away from it, or it would seriously affect them and their magic, potentially even killing them. I guess I was wrong because we are traveling quite far from the lake, and they aren’t showing any signs of being affected at all.

I’m becoming more and more eager to get into the library that Raiden says they have in the house, because I am very quickly realizing that the books that the humans have on supernaturals are filled with more lies than truth.

To be honest, it makes sense. Supernaturals are relatively new to the Earth Realm, well, that the majority of the humans know of anyway. Supernaturals have been coming over from Trieneliea and all of the other realms, actually, for thousands of years, and certain government entities knew about their existence. Still, it wasn’t until the mass evacuation of Trieneliea and the subsequent shutdown of the portals that meant that the supernaturals couldn’t get back into Trieneliea, that those authorities that had known for a very long time of the existence of supes had to announce to the rest of the humans that supernaturals existed and they were here to stay. There were too many of them to hide their existence any longer, and the government's hand was forced.

Obviously, the government then gave out various books and did educational videos and all that shit to educate humans as quickly as possible on supernaturals, and over the years, those have been added to, and humans like to think that they know pretty much everything that they can about most supernaturals. My original point, which I somehow managed to derail myself, was that it makes sense that humans don’t have all of the information on supes because it would make the supernaturals vulnerable, and I don’t think anyone would voluntarily do that to themselves.

It wouldn’t exactly be a smart thing to do.

I want to know the truth, not because I want to use it against the supes or inform the humans that I have proof that everything they’ve been told isn’t the entire truth, that would be ridiculous. No, I want to learn the truth because I want to learn. I love knowledge, and any opportunity that I have to learn more always makes me extremely happy.

For example, with the kelpies, they are behaving in a way that is completely the opposite of what I have read about them. Granted, I haven’t read that much about them, but even the small amount that I have read is somewhat contradictory to the behavior that the kelpies are showing us. I know that some of the kelpies' behavior is out of the norm and not just behavior that I don’t know about because of the way that the guys are acting, they are just as surprised as I am. I didn’t know about their eating habits or even that they were hunted for their hearts and scales so that they could be sold at the Obsidian Market, and I have spent a lot of time at that market, both selling and buying.

I am just going to have to add the kelpies to the list of things that I need to research in the guys home library. The list keeps getting longer, and at this point, I think I’m going to need longer than just a day to get through everything as thoroughly as I wantto. That’s okay though, because once I know where it is I can go back there whenever I want.

That’s of course, assuming that Raiden doesn’t mind. I get the feeling that the library is his domain, and I don’t want to force my company on him.

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