For the next week while things got settled I had council meetings every night. Asking me the same line of questions. Who is your mentor? Who is he? What is his name? It had never crossed their minds my mentor wasn't a he. So when Christophe didn't start with his usual line of questioning, I got curious. He asked instead. "Is this you mentor?" He asked slyly pushing a note forward.
Hello Dru,
I know your council lap-dogs have most likely read this before you. Just wanting to remind you to not give my identify away at any costs. Serge is coming, he doesn't know your train and he will under estimate your skills. He is coming soon. Remember my training.
A
P.s Tell Graves he can have his light back
I saw the light and smiled. A skull and cross bones. I tucked it away in my pocket and looked up to meet their piercing glares.
"Who is A?" Hiro asked.
"Not telling" I relied sitting down.
"Goddamn it Dru they have in tell on Serge in tell we don't have" Christophe barked.
"Sit down!" I shouted, he flinched at my voice aspect rolling over me comfortingly. "I am not giving any details into matters concerning A" I said in a frightening tone that no one dared to argue with.
"Is he a sucker?" Hiro asked.
"No" I replied. I walked out. I didn't bother looking back and stalked straight to my room. My guard was inside but I ordered them outside. That's when I heard the sound on my window sill and saw a black raven. It had something white in its mouth and I realised it was a piece of paper, it dropped the papers and cawed softly as I went to pick it up.
Follow the raven
A
I laughed and shook my head softly, it was day light and I jumped through the window once the raven took off. I moved at blurring speeds and got to a part in the forest behind the schola. I saw the raven arch and land on Aurora's gloved hand. She fed the bird something. "Good boy chip" She commented.
"Yes she named a raven Chip" Shanks remarked.
I saw a small circle of friends, Nat, Graves, Shanks and Dibs.
"Wont Christophe follow her here?" Nat asked Aurora.
"Not when he finds his room trashed and the car park on fire" She pulled an evil devious smile.
"Whose car did you blow up?" Graves asked.
"Leon's" She replied and Graves and I were totally okay with that fact. But her face turned hard and serious. "Dru have you told Christophe or anyone who I am?" She asked.
"No" I said and Aurora nodded.
"I trust you didn't that's why I trust you enough to share more of my past with all of you" Aurora said and we were defenceless for a second. "Christophe is my brother" She announced and I heard some people gasp. That's when I saw it, the aspect it was exactly the same, and they did look a little alike. But acted completely different. "I'm Serge's daughter, After Christophe ran off, Serge was pissed and went out to make another Djamphir, he raped my mother and got her pregnant, when he came back several years later he found a young stevocha, he should have killed me right there I wished he did sometimes but he didn't, Stevocha are stronger faster and more deadlier than djamphirs that is why we are so rare, so he trained me, he wanted me to kill my own kind, kill djamphir and stevocha, I was a weapon, I was taken from the age of eight and pushed hard, till I wept, bled and cried, I was a blood bank for Serge and some of his selective, That was till I bloomed, he made me into a deadly killing machine. He thinks I'm dead now, that's why I don't go into the scholar's , I'm Christophe's half-sister and my identity must be kept safe, no one should know about me" Aurora begged and I saw the trueness in her eyes.
"We won't say anything, we all promise" I said and the others nodded along through the shock. "Is that why your aspect forms are so similar" I asked and she nodded gravely. Graves flicked a cigarette out for her and she smiled up at him.
"Thank you" and Graves lit her end and she took a heavy drag. "I will be staying here a good day or two, goodbye to all of you" She said and gave us a sideways salute and whooshed off. We all stared at each other and I saw intensity in Graves's dark green gaze and my lips fuzzed as the memory of kissing him made butterflies flap in my stomach. "How about rabbit, where spread out and Dru it's your lucky day" Shanks winked and Graves looked to the wulfen. "Terms? Well we catch you, beer for us, we don't ..." Shank motioned for me to talk.
"You finally get the courage to ask Nat on a date?" I said and Graves coughed, 'Coward' at Shanks. The moment of truth.
"Fine start running" He growled and I felt my aspect roll over me and I ran , dodging people and fences and benches in the park. They ran after me and changed while they did it. Graves nearly caught me, but I jumped high and he went under me and I continue to run. All the way to my safe zone and Graves Shanks Dibs and Nat were panting, doubled over on their knees and I was panting and smiling.
"You got fast" Shanks coughed.
"Shanks you better keep to your side of the deal, or their will be consequences" I warned.
"Kinky" Grave commented and winked at me.
We ended up with Pizza and I had soda with Graves, he didn't drink. He elbowed me at Shanks moving closer to Nat. Nat was picture perfect, as always and Shanks coughed under his breath looking around before meeting her gaze. "Nat will you go on a date with me?" He asked, without any sarcasm or anything. Nat was sparkling but she had to play hard to get. "I'll think about it" her eyes shrivelled up. "Okay" She said a few moments later.