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XXXII.

I am furious right now! I mean, really? He's an idiot! How did he manage to get me like that?

Okay, I guess I should explain what I was ranting about. It all started when I told Leo about the note I found on my pathway with the word 'yes' and the initials 'WT.' We searched all over for people whose first names started with a W. Everybody we found, which wasn't a lot of people, had no clue what we were talking about.

Frustrated, we both headed to sword-fighting class, which I teach. During the class, I had the students sparring with each other. There is this one really annoying kid in my class named Welsh. He always tries to teach the class and is always bragging about something or the other. Okay, I'll give him credit for being decent with a sword, but I signed up to teach the class so he has to listen to me.

After Welsh defeated his partner, Kant, he kept calling me over to have me demonstrate a move for Kant's sake. I believe he was doing it just to annoy me. After a couple times, I pulled him aside to lecture him. In the middle of my lecture, it dawned on me that Welsh's first name started with a W. I asked him what his last name was and he said Terrance. I told him to go back to sparring and ended the class ten minutes early to talk to Leo.

"Leo, Welsh's last name is Terrance. His initials are WT. He could be the one that dropped that letter on the path," I explained to Leo.

Leo frowned. "I hope not. Did you ask him about the letter?"

"No, I didn't want it to be him so I didn't ask," I said.

We walked out of the arena and I saw another letter on the ground. Leo picked it up and read it aloud. "Meet me in the forest, near the west bank of Lake Manacoochi."

We both rushed into the forest. When we got to the spot Welsh wanted up to be, nobody was there. Getting suspicious, we backed up into the trees and waited. Leo and I waited for two hours and nobody showed up.

That's when I started to think it was a joke, that Welsh was just setting us up and was planning to prank us. But, curiosity killed the Reyna, so I forced Leo to wait with me. We sat down at the base of a tree and started talking.

"Do you think Welsh is actually the one doing this?" Leo asked me.

I just shrugged. "I truthfully have no idea. That's why we're waiting- to figure out the truth."

Leo rolled his eyes. "We might be here for a long time," he pointed out.

"It might be worth it." And with that, we waited in silence. In fact, it was so silent and peaceful, I started to drift off to sleep; sitting on the ground with my head leaning against the tree trunk. Little did I know, Leo was doing the same.

Next thing I know, I was waking up to the sound of silent laughter. I blinked a couple of times and rubbed my eyes. When I was fully conscious of the scene around me I stood up and grabbed my knife. In front of Leo and I were five campers, one with a camera, and one of them being Welsh. Before I could lunge at them, they were gone. I woke Leo up and we went back to our respectful cabins.

The next morning, a picture of Leo and I was hung up everywhere. We were both asleep, with our heads leaning against each other. I took all of the pictures down that I could find, but people still laughed and made kissing noises at me for the rest of the day. How humiliating! Especially for me, the Praetor!

You know what, instead of writing, I could be tracking down Welsh and planning revenge. He has no idea what he got himself into.

Reyna