Hi, I'm back! And just like I promised, I have written my responses to the reviews for last chapter.
The Invisible Enchantress: Wink is really fun to write! I made Jem friendly because as much as I love Fang, it would be boring to have 2 silent rock boys. Also, Ollie isn't riding on Max's back. Max has her arms around Ollie's upper body, while Ollie's lower half is kind of dangling. Ironically, in real life, that is exactly the wrong way to hold a cat. As for Ollie going to Ella's, well, I don't want to spoil it for you!
. : I'm glad people love Wink. It seems making her a bookworm was a good way to get readers to relate with her.
BittersweetLilies: Thank you for reviewing! I'm glad you like the story.
Ella Martenez: I'm already looking forward to that too! It'll be good to see it from another's point of view!
This chapter was by far the hardest to write. Cherub and Angel's interactions are, well, a little confusing. Hope you understand the chapter anyways.
Cherub's head hurt and her tail was sore. She looked around her cage and identified it as a Kanine Kamper, size medium. She was at the School.
Cherub looked at the winged girl in the crate next to hers. Unbidden, a thought came from the girl, or maybe it was Cherub's thought.
You can read minds. We can both read minds.
Immediately, Cherub knew the girl's name, and she knew the girl knew hers.
Reading Angel's mind was disconcerting. Cherub could hear Angel's thoughts about hearing Cherub's thoughts about hearing Angel's thoughts about hearing Cherub's thoughts…
Cherub tried her best not to think about anything else than the thought she was sending Angel. Do you know where Ollie is? She also tried to convey who Ollie was in that small thought to Angel.
Instantly Cherub heard Angel think back, Maybe with Max? Cherub felt a wave of thoughts flow over her when Angel thought about Max. In a blink of a second, she saw Max rocking Angel to sleep, Max brushing Angel's hair, Max dancing Angel around the house and Angel giggling while Max twirled her around, Max cleaning the house, Max holding Angel while she cried and Max tucking Angel in at night.
Before Cherub could respond, she heard thoughts coming from the crate to the other side of Angel.
New new 'n' wings 'n' tail and new new wings girl tail girl new.
Two small children sat in the crate next to Angel's. They both looked younger than Cherub and Angel. The children stared, eyes wide.
Cherub felt Angel's sympathy.
"Hi." Angel whispered. Since Cherub didn't feel any labmen around, she smiled and waved at the children.
Mouth noise hand move girl wings girl tail new new.
Cherub stared closely at the children. She thought they were boys. One had scaly patches all over his skin, like a fish. The other was practically bald, and had extra fingers and toes.
"I'm Angel and she's Cherub," Angel whispered. "Do you have names?" Cherub whispered.
Noise noise bad girls tail wings bad noise.
The two children looked scared and retreated into their cages.
Cherub sniffled. She wondered where Ollie and the others were.
A door opened and Cherub heard footsteps. She felt the petrified thoughts of fear from the little boys and Angel.
One labman stopped in front of Angel's crate, while the other stopped in front of Cherub's.
"Oh, my God - Harrison was right," one labman said, hunching down to stare at Angel through the grate. "They got them! Do you know how long I've wanted to get my hands on these two?"
He turned to the other one. "Did you ever read the Director's precept report about these recombinant groups?"
"Yeah, but I wasn't sure I believed it," the other one, a labwoman, said. "Are you saying these are subjects eleven and fifteen? The little girls?"
The labman rubbed his hands together with glee. "You're looking at them." He leaned forward to unhook the doors of their cages. "Come on, little things. You're wanted in lab seven." Oh, yes! Man, when I section their brains...
A wave of fear washed over Cherub as they were being dragged out. She couldn't tell if it was hers or Angel's.
Pathetic relief washed through the boys that the girls were being taken and not them.
Cherub didn't blame them one bit.