“We need to get Headmaster Mykene in touch with whoever is running the Egyptian school,” I said. “It wasn’t the pool at Ouroboros that woke them up. They’ve been awake and plotting for two years. They may have even been killing before they got here.”
“Except according to the flash drive Headmaster Mykene gave you, Lola was taken in Peru and Radames was kidnapped in Egypt. Maybe they aren’t lovers in this life,” Lucian said.
“There are alotof smiley faces with horns in these texts, mate. You don’t text someone that emoji unless you want a ride,” Liam said. “There’re also loads of texts that he wants to put his eggplant in her taco. They are totally shagging.”
“Yeah, but she was also into fucking me and, apparently, she’s into the rest of the school, too,” Mazen said.
“Hemlock was originally a fairy,” Adrian said. “They aren’t monogamous. They are generally okay with open relationships as long as no one is sneaking around and everyone is honest. Most of the time, they like playing together.”
“Yeah, but Lola was never a fairy. She just has Hemlock’s memories from when she was. Radames and Apep were never fairies. Mazen, you know Radames. Would he be into open relationships?” I asked.
“I don’t know anything about him. Everything was a lie. He acted like sex before marriage was a one-way ticket to his Hell, but the eggplant emoji is universal. You can’t send one unless you’re smashing or want to smash.”
“You’re all weird,” Lucian said.
“Why don’t the people who speak emoji try to figure out what these texts say and the rest of you get with Headmaster Mykene about the Egyptian school?” Alexios said.
Ivar, Mazen, Ari, Alexios, and Adrian growled when they realized Iman was coming with Khalid, Lucian and me. Liam stayed behind because he had a better chance of reading the texts. I pulled him aside before we left.
“Try to break it up if Ivar attacks Mazen.”
“They might need to settle it with their fists.”
“I don’t think that would be good for Ari or Iman.”
“Will do, love. Lucian and Khalid better protect you while I’m in here trying to decipher the sexts between Forsaken Ones.”
“You know they will.”
“I do, but it makes me feel like they are trying harder if I threaten them.”
“Bye, Liam,” I said, giving him a kiss.
I wasn’t all that sure anyone could decipher anything from emojis, but I had a better feeling about talking to Headmaster Mykene.
Sage was the one who was working in Headmaster Mykene’s office, but Lucian was the one with a texting relationship with her. It started with Forsaken One jokes, but I was pretty sure it evolved into inside jokes that were above everyone’s head except those two. I caught him looking at his phone and smirking sometimes and since he didn’t use social media and generally thought everyone was an idiot, it had to be Headmaster Mykene because Sage was always with us.
We didn’t text because Professor Kane’s phone was generally dead until I plugged it in to charge it for her, but she was hilarious and we had our own inside jokes no one else would get. I wasn’t jealous, and I never considered myself the smartestperson in the room. I wouldn’t like myself if I ever got to that point, either.
Headmaster Mykene was waiting for us in her office. Her laptop was hooked to a television.
“Amira Baz is the reincarnation of Aset. Most of you would know her by the Greek name Isis. She runs the Egyptian school. Several of you, technically, should have been hers. There was an earthquake that damaged the school. The damage wasn’t extensive, but the students couldn’t live there. It was decided to transfer the students and do a complete gut and update.
“She wants updates on the Egyptian students here since they should have been hers. She knows who all of you were in your previous life and that Apep is back. Amira is definitely going to want to know they woke up trespassing at her school.”
The reincarnation of Isis was about as stunning as you’d imagine a god who was also a queen would be. Isis and Anubis were deeply connected in their first life. If I’d ended up at her school, I didn’t know if she would have ended up some kind of mentor to me. I ended up where I was supposed to be since Sage was here.
“You said there’s been a development with Apep?” she asked.
“I’ll let the ones who discovered explain.”
I took over, and no one stopped me. This woman would have been my headmaster if things had been different and she’d, apparently, taken an interest in me, anyway.
“We unleashed the reincarnations of Loki and Hermes in our magical combat class and Hermes pickpocketed the burner phone the reincarnation of Bastet saw her with when she was spying as a cat after dunking her head in a toilet and knocking her unconscious. All the text messages on the phone are written in emojis, but we’ve got people trying to figure it out. Except the text messages go back two years and the only messages are between two people. We were thinking they might havetrespassed at the school while it was being renovated and taken a dip in the pool.”
Amira started swearing in Arabic. Damn. If she saidthatshe was pissed.
“I need to find one of the security guards I fired. It was just him because it was late and it’s very hard to accidentally discover our school. He’s a werewolf, and the moon was very full one night, so he decided to take a run around the grounds. While he was having moon zoomies for hours, two people broke in. When he reported it, he said it was just two teenagers looking for a place to have sex, so he gave them a warning and let them go.
