Meri, who is still curled up on Poca’s back, makes a sound that sounds suspiciously like a scoff, and Poca rolls his eyes at me andgrumbles like he had absolutely no doubts at all and that he always knew that it wasn’t the Void that I was using. To be fair, he probably did.
“I’m going to assume that Oryn is still in the Void- that’s not actually the Void, but an ancient freaking realm?”
I may have let my freakout show a little bit then, but fortunately for me, there’s no one else here apart from me, Poca, and Meri, and they are more than used to my freakouts by now.
They have seen plenty of them.
Poca watches me closely for a few seconds, like he’s waiting to see if I’m done or if there’s more of the freakout coming, and then he simply nods in order to answer my question.
I feel a knock on the bond lines, and I open them all up so we can hear each other.
“So, are you snooping in his office?”Loki asks, and I can hear the smile in his voice.
I chuckle,“You bet I fucking am.”
“That’s my girl,”Zev replies instantly, making my heartbeat faster as a smile stretches my lips.
“Don’t worry, we won’t tell him,”Reaper adds.“I think we all want to see the look on his face when you prove him wrong.”
I burst out laughing before remembering that I should probably be quiet in here and cutting my laugh short.“Thanks, guys. I should be back soon. Is there anything else you want me to get while I’m here?”
“No, I think we’re good,”Khaos replies.“Stay safe, I mean it, Farren. Don’t take unnecessary risks. Something big is going on. Just get the bone and come back.”
I shouldn’t smile at the sound of the worry in his voice, but I really can’t help it.
“I will, don’t worry, Khaos,”I reply and then say a quick goodbye as I close down the bond lines and refocus on what I’m supposed to be doing.
“Alright, let's find this thing of Aldrastos’ so that I can prove him wrong, and get back to the Void, or er realm. Fuck this is going to be confusing for a while.”
You wouldn’t think that a hellhound can look at you with amused exasperation, but Poca sure as hell can. Meri has clearly given up with the whole situation and is curled up fast asleep on Poca’s back, completely ignoring me.
That’s fair.
Ignoring Poca’s exasperated look, I head over to Aldrastos’ desk and try to open the top drawer where he told me the bone was. I should probably be weirded out that he keeps a bone in the top drawer of his desk, but I have four princes' heads in a pocket in the Void, so who am I to judge?
I’m fairly certain it’s weirder that I have heads. The fact that I’m unsure probably suggests that it is.
Wait, does that mean that I’ve actually been storing things in pockets of Siorraidh and not in the Void? Is that even possible?
Well, it must be, or I wouldn’t have been able to do it.
Unless I’m somehow putting stuff somewhere, but that wouldn’t make sense either.
Refocusing, I reach for the drawer. As I touch the handle, the drawer zaps me, and I curse.
The fucker didn’t warn me that he had spells guarding the drawer, but then again, he didn’t really think that I could get back here, so maybe he thought I wouldn’t need to know that there were spells guarding it.
At least I hope it’s that reason and not that he was being an ass, because then I’d have to throw something at him, and it seems like he’s going to be with us for a while, so it would be a bummer if he were an asshole.
Fortunately, these spells, while not something that I have come across before, are no match for my magic, and within a few moments, I’ve pulled them apart, opened the drawer, and added the new spells to my growing repertoire of spells in my mind.
Reaching into the drawer with my hand, I stop myself and send a tendril of my magic in instead. If the drawer had spells guarding it, then the chances are that the bone does as well.
Chapter Two
Farren
My eyebrows draw down with confusion as I realise that there isn’t anything on it that would harm me.
