Page 25 of Whispered Warnings: Part Two

“I was going to return it,” Reaper replies feebly as he looks at me like he’s worried about what my reaction will be.

I burst out laughing.

“That is fucking brilliant,” I exclaim, making Raiden grin. “I’m sorry but I’m using that from now.”

“One problem,” Griff grins, “you can’t actually take one of our souls on a trip to the underworld.”

I smirk, “Nope, but I was planning on saying something like, ‘Leave me alone, or Raiden will take your soul on a trip to the underworld.’ I feel like that will work better than anything that I could threaten.”

“I’m okay with that,” Raiden agrees, his star-like eyes twinkling.

“Great, I’m sure the others will be thrilled,” Griff teases, “we now have two of you, and you are both using the same pretty terrifying threat.”

Raiden and I simply share a look and then shrug as Raiden hands me my coffee and then gives one to Griff, too.

“Alright, well, now that we’ve gotten that cleared up,” I tease with a smirk. “What is everyone else looking into?”

“Well, you know that I’m looking into the kelpies,” Griff starts as he gestures to the pile of books that he has stacked on the table. He continues, “I want to know how to bond with them in the best way so that we earn their trust and friendship as well. I want to make sure that we do it right and give them the respect that they deserve.”

Chapter Eight

Neith

“Good idea,” I reply.

Raiden looks thoughtful for a moment before he says, “Since you are looking into the kelpies anyway, do you want to see if you can find anything about what Sully could have meant yesterday when he said, ‘only those who’ and then got cut off by that spell. If we can figure out who he meant, then that might give us a better clue about how we have ended up being bonded to them.”

Griff nods, “Yeah, absolutely. I can do that. What are you going to look into?”

“I was thinking of looking into the place that Neith said the imps sent her, and maybe the Warrior teams as well, to see ifthere are any that we could contact about the Choosing, just in case we need advice,” Raiden replies.

“That would be awesome actually, and covers some of the things that I wanted to look into. I’m going to see if I can find any information on my sword and the Choosing so that I know what I’m up against if it happens,” I reply.

They both nod, and Griff says to Raiden, “Don’t forget that you were going to look into what Ty said on the phone.”

I frown, “What did Ty say on the phone?”

“Shit, did no one tell you?” Raiden asks.

Griff shakes his head before I can confirm that no, no one did tell me.

He says, “We told her about the Choosing but then got really distracted by everything that came after that, and I guess no one brought it up. To be honest, I had completely forgotten about it until right now.”

“Me too actually,” Raiden admits, he turns to me and starts to explain, “so while we were on the call with Ty and he was telling us about the Choosing, he sort of cut out mid-sentence, and in a voice that wasn’t really his said,‘The darkness brews, the light pushed back, the voices whisper don’t fall off track, pain and sadness the pressure mounts, don’t lose sight of what counts. Death, death, death.’He then just carried on what he was saying before, like nothing had happened, and it became pretty clear that he had no idea that he had said anything else.”

The voices get louder, agitated, and deafening for a brief moment. They get so loud that I don’t hear the rest of what Raiden says, and I have to try really hard not to show in my expression what is going on inside my head. Just as suddenly as the voices got louder, they quieten back to their usual background volume.

Shit.

I try to keep my reaction under wraps as I say, “Oh wow, okay, that’s super weird.”

“Yeah, that’s what we thought as well,” Griff replies.

“Well, I have no idea how you are going to research that. It doesn’t exactly give you a lot to work with,” I say, hoping that I sound casual.

Raiden frowns, “Me neither. I’m going to start with the other things and circle back to that, I think.” He changes the subject, “All the books on enchanted objects and weapons are in the back left corner.”

“Thank you,” I reply, as I place my coffee on the table and then head in that direction as Raiden heads in the other, while Griff stays sitting at the table.

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