Both Ginny and Chrissy grimaced at once.
“She got out of here the moment Irishen appeared,” Ginny said.“They have history.”
“What did the bastard do?”Wave growled.
“Stand down.”Ginny waved a hand.“He’s the heir apparent, all we can do is to lie low and hope for the best.”
“Ice clans,” Wave muttered to herself.“Lava dildo deep up in his ass should mitigate that nicely—what?”She stopped as she took in the wide eyes looking at her.Then she felt the heat in her hands and looked down.Tiny rivulets of molten rock circled her fingers like rings.
Fuck, fuck, fuck.
No, she couldn’t have.Panic tried to overtake her mind.Her control of lava came from her siren powers, only there was no ocean around to turn the molten rock solid, and any hell spawn powerful and smart enough would be able to sense her with this much power slipping free.
Make it go away.Hide.A voice whispered in the back of her mind, and before she could make things worse, the door to her siren powers slammed shut.The endless conditioning her mother had drilled into her made her stormbringer side surge forward.
“Oops,” Wave gasped, shaking her hands.The lava turned into droplets and fell from her hands.Too late she realized that the molten rock would land on the floor.
“Shit,” Wave cursed and blasted the floor with the thickest layer of ice she could pull off that quickly.Where was the damned ice clan heir when he could have been useful?They all froze in place as the ice rose up to their knees and then turned to steam as the lava landed.
To her relief, as soon as they were free from the ice, Chrissy rushed to throw the windows open, and Ginny pushed most of the steam outside with a quick spell.Panting, they looked at each other, the tiny rocks on the floor, and every surface that looked a bit moist but clean.
“Well, that’s one way to steam clean the whole place at once,” Chrissy said, sounding breathless.
“Sorry!”Wave grimaced.This wasn’t bad.This was catastrophic.Her only saving grace was that storm spirits were known to have some affinity to earth magic.Some, but… at least she hadn’t slipped enough to tap in the well of her true power.Her inheritance.She was panting, trying to push all of the power still coursing in her veins down.For a second, her muscles cramped, but then she regained control of her breathing and was able to inhale.
Ginny broke the silence.“I think I really believe you telling Irishen off now.”Her skin gleamed, but she looked way calmer than Chrissy.
“What was that?”Chrissy panted and flopped down on the couch.
“I’m shit at earth magic,” Wave groaned, going for a half-truth.“I lost control.”
“That was you… losing control?”Ginny quirked a brow.“Damn, girl.What does you in control look like?”
Wave gingerly sat next to Chrissy, took a couple of deep breaths, and then pulled all the excess moisture in the room to her.The tall pillar of water hovered over her palm, and she wove it easily into a dragon chasing a group of knights fleeing on horseback.
Every dragon scale was detailed, as was the knights’ armor, horses’ manes and tails, and the blades of grass they were running on.She guided the scene out of the open window and then let it drop.
Deep silence filled the room.It took Ginny a few minutes to break it, the whole time Wave kept inwardly calling herself names and cursing her own stupidity.
“Full scholarship,” Ginny whispered.Wave just nodded.
“But with that amount of precision, you should be a teacher on water elements, not a student,” Chrissy said, stunned.She was still looking outside, where the horses had galloped.
“I have a high affinity to water,” Wave murmured, hanging her head.
“Storm—you know what!I’m not going to ask.I’m not even going to speculate,” Ginny suddenly said brightly.“As far as I’m concerned, we spent the evening polishing the place up in order to avoid the asshole downstairs.”
Chrissy finally turned to look at Wave.She took her time looking, and Wave fought the need to tense up and defend herself.Finally, Chrissy nodded.“Cleaning.I can live with that.”
“Thank you,” Wave sighed.
Chapter 14 – Wave
Thenextmorning,Wavewoke up to a knock on her door.
“Wayla, are you awake?”Chrissy called.
“Unnnh.”
