Ooh, the balls on her!
Cosmo stiffens, looking like he wants to incinerate her, but too bad. He’s got no firebreath.
Theo walks over and reaches out, tilting his chin from side to side. “I've seen you at your worst, Cosmo Drakeward, but never at your best. Do you even have a best?”
Whoa. Good question.
“Your best is important right now. There are lives that can be affected by how effectiveyouare. Consider this a bone thrown.” She closes her eyes and the world stills. I can’t see it but I feel it. She’s giving him Lumina.
The next second, she releases his face with a snap that has to rattle. “Now, get your head in the game,” she commands like the warrior princess she is.
I look at Alexis and he grins. “Our queen,” he says, and I totes agree. I will bend the knee, the cock, whatever she wants.
For forever more.
Cosmo inhales sharply, his eyes flashing an ice blue that is more intense than normal. Suddenly, the air around him shimmers. His skin turns oily. I see him trying to stifle his screams. It’s not like the rest of us. It’s painful.
The tar hardens into iridescent scales, and two massive, leathery wings unfurl, nearly knocking me on my butt.
Rump.
Is that what a horse butt is called?
“Dramatic,” Willow sighs. And I think I love Theo’s bestie. In a completely platonic way, but jeepers, she’s got a cool mouth on her.
Feniks, still in his human bod, does more magic and I feel it weave around me.
Yep, nothing to see here. I’m fully coated withOcculta Apparentia.
I guess he has to keep his normal head, not eagle one, because of all the orders he needs to bark out.
“We need to see every access point of the facility. Ventilation, drainage, everything.” He turns his attention to Ludo. “Are you OK with this? If there’s a chance you’re going to be triggered into a PTSD episode, it’s better if you stay here.”
Man, for a guy with no words, old Bully still knows how to shut someone up with a stare.
“Fine,” Alexis says. “But it needed to be addressed. So, listen up. Tonight is information gathering; our current intel is virtually all blanks. Tomorrow we break in and steal the children. This evening—find answers to all the problems you can.”
With that we don't waste another second. Alexis and Cosmo take to the air, while me, Ludo and Max charge forward. Well, I do. Honestly, I leave the slow pokes in the dust.
Snow.
The facility tries to block itself from me with its nauseating, nothing to see here, spell. But I’m not buying what this building is selling. Nope. Instead I circle the perimeter, feeling the wards that pulse like a heartbeat.
—Mega wards—I tell Team Sparkles.
—I can feel them through you— Theo replies. Her voice rings like the perfect bell in my head, sharp with focus.
—Don’t break them— Captain Crunch commands. —We’re just after the layout…no heroics.—
Yeah, yeah.
I take off at a flying pace, confident I’m invisible for my speed as much as the spells. —Can I take out some guards?—
I’ve spotted several that are begging for an arrow through the heart.
—NO—
So boring.
