?Neither did Mavyn because she makes a disbelieving sound in the back of her throat and her head rears back.
?“That was hot,” I whisper out of the corner of my mouth to Mavyn.
?She shushes me as she takes her hand and crosses her arms. “Can we be done here? I’m hungry.”
?“Actually. . .” And we all turn towards the Dean still with everyone further back and behind. Everyone still here and watching the spectacle. The Dean approaches us and his eyes stay away from Mavyn’s. “Due to this new. . . information, I believe we need an audience with the Mage Board in order to determine what will happen next.”
?“What happens next,” I snap, “is we finish out this school year. We have just under a month until finals and our presentation to the Mage Board. Nothing has changed and – “
?“And she is something none of us have been confronted with in this present era,” the Dean interrupts. I shut my mouth and cross my arms like Mavyn is. “From what I have experienced, she is more powerful than Kolasi, a devil one with his true form. There is a reason devils and angels are executed if they reveal their true forms. Nothing is more powerful than them.”
?“In this universe,” I mutter under my breath. Mavyn subtly nudges me and when I glance at her there’s a ghost of a smile on her face.
?“Can this meeting be held when the first years need to present their Magic History projects?”
?We all turn towards Callahan with his sweet nature and golden puppy energy. Except it’s been lacking recently and everyone has noticed. Snide remarks about Mavyn and how much of a bitch she is to him when he has been nothing but kind.
?I hurt for the devil because in a sense it isn’t really his fault, and yet his fate and what his true form will do to Mavyn does make it his fault.
?The unfairness to beings with conflicting spirits, souls, morals, and fates.
?The Dean contemplates and in reality what’s one more month. After this display it’s unlikely the rebels will attack again. This is the third time they’ve made it out alive and not because they’re winning at anything.
?Mavyn islettingthem live.
?I point a glare at said Kolasi Mavyn can dominate and he raises a brow in challenge at me. It’s almost disturbing how similar he and the professor look.
?“I think that is acceptable,” the Dean finally answers.
?Esmirra scoffs as she turns and stomps away. The crowd parts for her and then they bolt as the Dean yells at them all to find something productive to do. With a last glance at Mavyn, he turns away too.
?Mavyn finally relaxes and I’d lean into her if we weren’t both wearing the gym clothes. Still, her presence right beside me eases me and it’s like it always is.
?“I want ramen,” I whisper and she hums.
?Turning to me, her face softens. “Ramen sounds good.” Then her face winces. “Right after I see a healer so they can fix all my broken bones.”
?Panic seizes me.
?“Fucking shit!” I hiss. Running my hands over my face, adrenaline flushes with me wanting to do something. “Let’s go! Do you need someone to carry you? A stretcher? Oh goddesses, you should not even be standing. Sit down, now!”
?I’m still rambling, not fully aware of what I’m saying as my best friend chuckles. But she folds herself into the snow beneath her feet and then passes out.
Thirty-Eight
Mavyn – March 14
It had taken the healers thirteen hours and fifty-four minutes to fully heal every bone and break. A feat they should be proud of because nearly every single bone in my body was split.
?It’s not like they were able to put me out of it either because it was my magic holding everything together. I was forced to stay up and alert the whole nearly fourteen hours, slowly releasing my magic in select areas after they had healed those sections.
?A completefuckingpain.
?Especially with five hot-tempered, broody fated males with auras that constantly want to dominate.
?Bloodstreamby Neoni and Jung Youth is blaring as loud as my little MP3 player can play on speaker through my room asI twirl the six inch long stick of my solidified blood. Lasairorm is in her tank curled beneath her cave sleeping. Jullia should be on her way back with Asher and Hanna from Stone House. We’ll be going into Syngenia City later tonight for a last night of fun before exams.
?These past two weeks have been the epiphany of annoying. There is not one person on this campus – hell these fucking grounds and probably past it – that has not heard of what I am. It’s not even just that social media site either, word has spread like a true wildfire.
