“Except we weren’t going to have security cameras until after renovations are complete. He was out for hours and he couldn’t tell me when they broke in or how long they were in the building, just that he found them in the common room having sex on a couch. It’s very difficult to find our pool, and it’s just water unless you’re a reincarnation. Ithadto be them. It never sat right with me that the board only wanted him fired instead of hunting down who broke in.”
“I have things to say about this mysterious board. They lied to my parents and then they lied to you, so you ended up lying to me,” Lucian said.
“The board is made up of the reincarnations of god kings. They think because they have a penis and were in charge during a completely different era, we should do everything they say now. Unfortunately, only the board gets to vote and they think things should stay the way they are,” Amira sighed.
“They bumble over webcam board meetings while the rest of us run things in the trenches. They are completely aware of what’s happening here, but don’t want to get involved. If you ask me, it’s because they don’t want a ninety-pound original eating their shade because that would be embarrassing.”
“Well, I upped security at my school after the breach. There is more than one guard, and I had the cameras installed earlier than planned. It would be much harder to get in, much less stumble on the pool. Of course, this doesn’t fix that someone alreadydid, andthey ended up psychopaths.
“The reincarnation of Apep wouldn’t necessarily be a bad person, even if they were awake. If this boy was highly educated in the Christian faith, he’s probably not interested in the obvious grudge of punishing who banished him to Fairy. There is some other motive.”
“All we’ve figured out is that Lola is trying to get pregnant and Radames is helping her. But we were under the impression that started a few months ago when she woke up instead of two years ago. And if they are mates in this life, they weren’t together when they were taken.”
“Now that I know it was probably them that broke into my school, I can track their movements and try to give you a timeline of their movements while they were in Egypt.”
“We think they used the emojis like hieroglyphs,” Lucian said.
“If you understand how hieroglyphs work, you could create a language from images. Even if you could read hieroglyphs, which I can, it would take months to years to figure out the language they created.”
“Code breaking is bit of a hobby of mine. It takes about that long.”
“Yes, but we are dealing with eighteen or nineteen-year-olds,” I pointed out. “They might remember hieroglyphs, but they’ve been using emojis much longer. I don’t understand half the messages Liam sends in group chat unless it’s about sex. I’m just guessing here, but I’m betting Adrian uses them, too. They might be having some luck with the messages.”
“Well, personally I don’t use them, but if you can get a copy of the messages to us, we can also take a crack at them. They broke with the witch’s binding and Sage isn’t seeing red auras right now. Alexios’s prophecy said when winter turns to summer, so we’ve still got time to stop them.”
I wasn’t sure if Liam had better luck with the text messages, but we at least knew they’d been awake for years because a werewolf decided to run under the moon and they were definitely lovers since they were discovered having sex.
So, why was Lola trying to have everyone else’s baby?
So, all art was subjective, and subject to great debates, but, apparently, so were emojis. We all knew they wanted eggplant in the taco action alot,but three months after the texts started, Radames stayed in Egypt and Lola left. We figured that out from the flags emojis, even if we didn’t know why.
Lola went to India, South Korea, Australia, Japan, and then to Peru where she was kidnapped and brought here. I knew she was doing what I did before I found a place I wanted to stay and what Sage was doing. Travel somewhere, get a hostel, and find a job that wouldn’t mind that much when you moved on.
We just hadn’t figured out what she was trying to do there. I was escaping the Irish Mafia and Sage was seeing the world where she could afford insulin while the IRS sorted her Da.
There was a kitty cat face in a lot of their messages, which was where all the philosophical debate was coming in.
“So, we’ve got the cat emoji with the heart eyes when she gets to a new country and then right before she leaves, she sends the cat emoji with a pouty face,” Ivar said. “She’s not backpacking. Well, she is, but she’s looking for something and not finding it.”
“Oh, thank the wee baby Jesus. Get in here, Khalid. Has Professor Kane said anything about India, South Korea, Australia, Japan, and Peru?”
“Every country has a pool and some kind of system for reincarnations. There are also supernaturals living among humans or supernatural cities and villages for the ones who don’t want to. Why?”
We hadn’t found much, but we told everyone who left what we discovered and they told us about their chat with the headmasters. Yeah, we could definitely use help from the smart people because frankly, I thought when a girl sent those cat emojis, she wanted sex, then she was telling you that you were a lousy shag.
“Well, this phone doesn’t have GPS, so I couldn’t tell you where in those countries she was going. I don’t think she was trying to kill anyone while she was there, or she wouldn’t have brought her phone with her when she was eating shades in the trials. She didn’t know her magic kills everything, even electronics,” Lucian said.
“That’s not the phone she cares about. She keepsthisone strapped to her leg, and she didn’t have it on her when she was killing people during the trials or we wouldn’t be reading two years’ worth of messages,” Sage pointed out.
“True,” Lucian said, scratching the back of his head. “But even if she didn’t give a shit about her main phone, it’s still a hassle when your phone dies and according to her dossier, she doesn’t come from money.”
“I looked at Radames’s file. His father was a priest in an urban neighborhood, so they weren’t poor, but they weren’t wealthy, either. Maybe she knew, and that was why she left the burner phone somewhere and honestly just forgot she had her smartphone with her,” Khalid said.
“We can’t do anything until we get a timeline of what they got up to in Egypt. Somehow, a British girl was in Egypt and met the son of a Coptic priest who was grooming his son to also be a priest. They snuck off together and managed to find a magically protected school where the guard was taking a run under the moon and even found the pools. According to what you gathered from the texts, she stayed in Egypt for four months and then she left and never went back. But they stayed in contact until they both ended up here. Maybe Amira can give us a better idea what she got up to on her trip in Egypt,” Sage said.
“These bitchesknowall the rapists I killed in Amsterdam and I’m good enough at killing rapists that the authorities never even questioned me. How do theynotknow those two were the ones that broke into the Egyptian school?”
“I’m guessing they pay more attention to murder than they do trespassing,” Lucian drawled.
