It took another three days before I was let out of the circle Daybreak hospital. That meant that I had been in there for an entire week. I was only allowed to leave on the condition that I didn't train and I was with one of the other girls the entire time, the other girls being Thea, Blaise, Gillian, Maggie, Hannah, Jez, Maggie, Keller and ironically, Jade and Kestral. Rowan still completely ignored me because she still trusted her brother and therefore refused to drink the potion that Thea made. It was pretty funny, but in Miles' first visit to Thierry's mansion he met Kestral and they were soul mates, so they spend most of their time kissing. None of the other girls quite understood what I was going through. The only person who truly understood was Morgead, and even he didn't fully understand. He knows what it is like to have your soulmate missing or dying. It is worse than dying yourself.
I have never been so alone. When I realized what Jamie was and that we were soulmates, it was like my entire universe was lit up with a blazing shooting star. Before he was there there were admittedly stars, but when he passed I was too blinded from him to appreciate the stars. In short, I was depressed. And it sucked.
It was only with Jez, Jade and Kestral forcing me that I would do anything other than sit there, sometimes next to Jamie, sometimes it my room. They would drag me up and force me to get changed, to drink blood and to go outside. Thierry was trying to get all of us girls to write stories of how we met our soulmates. Hannah had already finished hers, as had Jez, I hadn't even begun mine and neither had Thea, Blaise or Kestral, so we all sat down and wrote our stories in a simple black book, leaving room for Mary-Lynette's story. I had been writing with Jez and Kestral whilst all of the witches practiced when Lupe came rushing in.
"Poppy, Poppy. You need to come here. Or sit down, I don't know!" When I looked up I saw that Keller and Galen where right behind her. Keller literally dragged me over to Thierry's office with everyone else following behind us. I was literally going crazy inside my head, hoping that nothing bad had happened.
"Poppy, we have found Ash and have some of our best daybreak spies monitoring him as we speak. Quil and Rashel are already there and we also want Keller and her team as well as Jez. Delos would be good but we can't risk anything happening to him, in fact yes, if Jez is going then Delos can go. All soulmates but Maggie can go. Sorry Maggie, but you are not a fighter, Delos will be fine."
"Thierry" I said, getting more and more confused. "Why has Ash been placed on such a high hit list?"
"He has een working for the other side. He told Hunter Redfern all about Illiana. He already knew about Jez and Delos, but now he knows what an insane loss Illiana would be as it would probably make the shapeshifters go onto their side."
"Maybe he is being mind controlled" I stated uninterestingly, this was all getting a bit ridiculous now. As they were all staring at me I decided to elaborate on my theory. "In the training room, before he attacked Mary-Lynette, his eyes flashed silver, red, indigo and then finally green before settling back to blue, Now that I think about it, it wasn't the precise same shade of blue, about five shades too dark. Maybe he was possessed, or mind controlled."
" That is an interesting theory Poppy and quite plausible, if night people are developing new powers then maybe Hunter Redfern has developed mind control."
It was only then that I even realised that Illiana was even in the room, she had obviously crept in when Thierry had been talking about her. She had been getting increasingly restless lately because everyone was seeming to wrap her in bubble wrap and lock her out of harm's way. "Wait, if Hunter Redfern has got mind control...doesn't that spell really bad news for us."
We all stopped then to consider her words. She was right,the apocalypse was only drawing sooner and we already knew that Redfern already had persuasion and knew how to awaken the dragons. It was now looking like we were in really big trouble!
