Chapter 8

Loren walked to her mailbox on campus. Expecting a letter from her family or a list of social events. Instead, she got a midnight blue card. Opening the card up, Loren read:

Dear Loren,
Midnight Serenade respectfully asks that you come to our practice session on Tuesday at the Masinori Center's stage in room 127. We will be playing at our first club this Friday. We will see you there.

Sincerely,
Arisu Hitaki

Loren cheered, she had always wanted to be in a band, and now she had her chance. Loren carefully placed the letter in her book bag and ran to Mia's office. When she got in, Mia looked up from her computer, "I'm assuming you got the part as singer," she smiled.
"Yep," Loren said in a clam voice, but her face clearly showed her happiness.
"Congratulations," Mia laughed.
"I want all six of you come to our first performance," Loren smiled.
"You should probably find out where you'll being playing first," Mia said.
"When I do find out," Loren smiled, "I'll be sure to tell all of you."
Loren ran out of the office and onto the quad. Loren opened her arms and embraced the April air.

Three men looked at Loren embrace the spring air. 'She embraces her element like a child embraces its mother,' Cale thought.
"So who has the honor of bringing our new season into the Nether Realm?" Dais asked.
"I will," Sekhmet said, entranced at seeing the new Warrior of Spring in the flesh.
Cale turned sharply, "I found her first," he argued.
"But I spoke first," Sekhmet stated.
"Sekhmet's right," Dais stated, "the first person who makes the verbal claim is the one who takes the prey."
Cale glared at Dais angrily.
"It's what you told me about claiming and hunting prey," Dais said unemotionally.
While Dais and Cale argued about hunting laws, Sekhmet looked at Loren. There was something about this girl, she was a fine warrior, but she did have Anubis' temper. He couldn't go charging in this time, he needed to come up with a plan. Sekhmet chuckled silently, the girl would be taken to the Dynasty, and anyone who stood in his way would be dead. While Cale and Dais still argued, Sekhmet teleported away from the campus quad to go to his room to think of a plan.