Chapter 1
Kitty Videos and Our New Mission
"Hey, watch this." Den turned his laptop toward me and played a video of a kitten trying to go down stairs.
"Cool." I nodded. Kitties were always nice.
"Lok, you better not be goofing off again." A british accent hung in the air. We looked at each other. Sophie had her hands on her hips. I don't think she knew that yet.
"He distracted me." I gestured to Den. She frowned.
"I'm gonna go." The brown haired boy slunk off to the room Dante gave him.
"You have learn these spells." She pointed the paper on my lap.
"It's harder to learn when it's like this." I complained.
"Princess, I think he means he learns better when someone else explains. The phrasing's old-fashioned so that doesn't help his pea brain." Zhalia liked to insult me because I was still "the Seeker who couldn't use Boltflare".
"Oh, let me see it." Sophie snatched the papers and read them.
"Where'd you get these, Soph?" I asked.
"My family's library. The one we met Lucas at. They were a book with some money." She studied the old spells.
"There was money?" I repeated.
"Lok, focus. These are powerful spells." Zhal scolded.
"She's right. Learn a spell like Hideface and you'll do well." Dante popped up on the TV. His TV. He let us use his house because Sophie's wasn't connet to the Foundation yet and as long as we kept it clean, we could spend the night.
"Dante!" Sophie and I cried.
"Dante?" Den thundered back downstairs.
"Why did you call?" Sophie coughed.
"Is it a mission?" I got glared at.
"Kinda. The Ghost Seeker is rumored to somewhere in the area. He, they, were sensed yesterday." Dante had use they for unknown genders and the Ghost might actually be a group them.
"You want us to look for someone nobody's seen? Sounds like top Foundation team material." Den boasted.
"They're dangerous for a reason, Den. I think I encountered them myself, but they wiped my memory." Dante reminded Zhalia's charge.
"Oh." The boy shuffled. He wasn't there for the call, but he saw how upset we got.
"We'll be careful, Dante. Have you found out why the titans are acting funny?" I promised.
"No, that's not our greatest concern right now. Your mission is to find the Ghost Seeker if possible and detain them until I get there." A card came out my Holotome. It said "Ghost Hunter", "Call me if anything happens." Dante blinked out.
"Ok." I missed my chance.
"Dante's a busy man." Zhalia said curtly. She missed him, but she didn't like to show it.
"Yeah." I agreed.
"When are going to look for the Ghost Seeker?" Den asked.
"Later, I think we should learn about the Ghost first." I pulled up some documents Dante send. Sophie wouldn't let us go until we found out everything we could. Zhal either.
