Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters in wings. They all belong to Aprilynne Pike. I am just writing with them to help me past the time for book three. Also, there is a huge spoiler alter if you have yet to read spells, I would not read this story.
I been a solider since I was fifteen, but nothing could prepare me for my newest mission. It had been easy enough to infiltrate Klea Wilson's camp. It was a little too easy for my comfort, if I was being perfectly honest with myself. Then again, I never put too much thought to how much humans actually put value to beauty. And here in the human world, I had looks similar to those you found on a magazine. You would think looks wouldn't change how people saw you, but apparently humans tend to try those deemed better looking as an elite group. I would have thought that might off put my wanting to join Klea's camp. But she seemed too warmed up to me within the nine months of me here.
I was a strong fighter for my age, and fast. She had no real idea about how fast I could really be. I had to constantly remind myself to slow down and not be as super gracefully. In fear, of being discover. After all, being trained at the academy made me a better fighter, than what someone my age should be. I joined this camp for one purpose to gain knowledge, we needed to know friend or foe, and also how much did they really know about trolls and their on-goings. So far, this group of humans seemed to not understand much of why the trolls were doing with Laurel.
They knew enough about trolls, to know that they were strong, and blood-thirsty, revengeful, and treasure-hunters. But to this group, they were after trolls because they were supernatural and purpose a threat to the human race in their opinion. This meant that, Klea and her group at the moment was on our side, but they couldn't be trusted, if she got winded of fairies her group would begin attacking us. It was my duty to make sure they reminded in the dark about fairies. The group wasn't dumb; they knew that there had to be more than one group of supernaturals. However, they weren't sure about what else was exactly out. I played my part well, and made jokes about what other types could be out there, never giving away the truth groups.
Their favorite group was the idea of vampires. Apparently, in the current pop-culture vampires were in again. I wanted to point out, that trolls was evolution version of a super-human, and vampires didn't exist. They actually were based off of trolls. The vampires story just was a wise tale to scare young fae from trying to venture into the human world, not that the young fae could get pass the sentries. Vampires were everything that trolls were lacking; they had the speed, and beauty, the same blood lust although they tend to drink blood, and came out at night. But for the sake of keeping Klea's group off the fae trail, I acted as thought vampires were really out there and could endanger humans. Of course, during my past nine months my mind never wandered far from Laurel.
Although, the last time we spoke it didn't go as well as I planned. I knew what she was afraid to say, after all she hesitated, and for now that was enough. She needs to protect her parents from the trolls. After the troll threat is gone, she will come back and join Avalon. She has too, it is home. Surely, that human, David, couldn't be enough for her. He would never understand her the way I do. I had been studying the human world for years, to understand Laurel. And because, I knew the human world so well, I was the one chosen to join Klea's camp. By using her business card that Laurel gave me when she first mentioned Klea. Although, the first nights there were a little difficult to get through, explaining my diet to the camp was a bit difficult, luckily they had a word for my diet choice, and they called it being vegan. I vowed to make a point to study their termlogy better in fear I lose another word.
Thought since that day I have yet to lose a word. Klea had mention Laurel to me before in passing. It's a good thing I am plant or I am pretty sure my heart would have been racing. Klea informed me; she wanted to have someone keeping an eye on Laurel. But she had refuse every time, Klea offered her guards. But after two attacks from trolls, she was more forcing guards upon Laurel than offering. But she couldn't just have guards following Laurel, so instead she was placing me around Laurel. By placing me in her junior year of high school, which would be starting in a few days in they had my backpack all packed and ready with a schedule which would give me a few classes with Laurel but not all so it didn't look suspicious. It was Klea's hope that I and Laurel would become friends, and that way she could have her eyes and ears there. If only Klea knew that becoming Laurel's friend wasn't the problem, it was the fact Laurel didn't want me around. I have a week before school starts, and a week to figure out how to deal with the fact, I would have to see Laurel and David together as a couple.