“I saw three of me in different outfits. A fairy told me I’m some kind of god/fae mix. My familiar won’t show herself, but she spoke to me and she’s Irish, so I’m pretty sure I was in my original life. I can feel certain things, but I don’t really understand them.”
“My family is Coptic. I went to a private religious school. They don’t really teach the ancient gods there and I wasn’t all that interested in reading about them. I saw the night sky,” Radames said.
“There were several moon gods. It would depend on what the moon was doing in your vision,” I said.
Radames just shrugged like he didn’t want to contribute anymore. I was mainly interested in Mazen and Lola. I puta pause on my feelings about his tattoos and what they were associated with for now, but he definitely didn’t want to talk about what he saw and that was shady. Lola made me seriously uncomfortable, and I was trying to fight that because she was a victim. I also needed to knowwhyshe set me on edge.
“I saw me laying in a field of flowers with my Nabhi chakra lit up,” Lola said.
That wouldn’t have been such a red flag. Plenty of people were into chakras now. I hadn’t read much on the subject, but I found itveryodd something associated with Hindus and Buddhists showed up on an English girl with blonde hair and blue eyes. Still, what did I know about all of this? I hadn’t learned enough about the subject yet.
We all turned to look at Mazen because he was the only one left.
“This is stupid. Headmaster Mykene said we are completely different from our originals, but you’reallgoing to judge me. Especially the nerd.”
“Lucian is Vlad the Impaler and I’m not judging him.”
“You judged me the first time you met me because of my tattoos. Where I grew up, you need these for protection. The only crimes I committed were against bad people who weren’t going to be punished.”
“And I’m sorry, but I only know the stories my baba tells me about people who have those tattoos.”
“Well, clearly, you don’t know the entire story.”
“Spit it out, mate. We need to get out of here and we’re your best chance. I don’t know shit about Egyptian gods and if you want to hurt some bad guys here in England, I want to ride shotgun,” Liam said.
“Fine. I didn’t do adamnedthing, but in my original life, I was Set.”
God of war, chaos, and storms. Fuck me.
Ireally didn’t know the first thing about pagan gods to know who Set was or why Khalid drew in a breath when Mazen announced that was who he was. Mazen didn’t set off any alarms with my new magic. He felt complicated, like Liam, but not evil.
I wasn’t picking up much from this group, but I also didn’t know how my magic worked. I also didn’t know if Lola’s magic scrambled things up when she was near someone. I didn’t know what the fuck a chakra was other than my father would have said it was demonic and hit me for bringing it into his house.
“Well, this is a fucked-up mix of reincarnations and it’s probably apocalyptic-level if we’ve got death gods, war gods,fucking Liam, and Thor. The traps are set, so we need to get out of here,” Zephyr said.
“You know who I am?” Liam asked.
“Pretty sure, but we aren’t allowed to tell you. No one is. You have to figure it out.”
“That’s shite. I’m growing something out of my forehead.”
“It can’t be worse than this migraine,” Alexios said.
Zephyr opened a portal.
“I’m picking up supernatural students because Iknowthem, but the rest of you need to be vetted first because at least one of you is a nasty. I’m not all that sure one of you with us now isn’t.”
Yeah, that was the problem. We didn’t, either. I didn’t know what was happening in other quadrants, but people got hurt in the two we were in. Mazen and his team and Ivar and his were in both quadrants when it went down. Lola named Ivar, Ari, and Alexios as her attackers, but Set was someone Khalid really didn’t like. Mazen also lost a team member, and he actually seemed really worried about her.
I liked walking. It was an easy way to get my blood sugar down to enjoy a treat and I got to enjoy the outdoors. That said, portals were pretty handy. Ours opened up straight to the trap where the crystals were. A bunch of people came out when they realized Zephyr and the rest of the Unseelie had left their post.
“What the hell, Zephyr? Idumpedyou. This is getting ridiculous.”
“I didn’t come here to see you, Nida. And stop lying.Ibroke up with you because I couldn’t even talk to anyone without you going crazy and trying to ruin their life. Andyouare the one stalking me. Stop making everything about you. That’s another reason we were never going to work. The rules have changed. There’ve been so many reincarnations in the past two classes because there’s something bad out here, it’s awake, and it’s madea friend. Two people are missing without a trace and one was beaten.”
“Fuck. The people you are with are pretty complicated,” another woman said.
“What do you see, Ailey? This crystal was protected by Djinn, succubae, and incubi. The Succubae don’t just feed off lust. They can see connections.”
