Will strode forward, grinning as Caleb bent double beside her. He'd never been on a rollercoaster before. His elbows on his straight knees, Will crouched in front of him, glancing up beneath his floppy hair to his tortured-looking face. "Are you gonna throw up or what?"

"I'll be fine." He'd barely wheezed it and by the way he jerked, bile had risen at the end of his last word. Will smiled, still crouching and looking up at him. "We should.."

"Oh, no worries," Will waved away his meaning, "I sent Corny ahead. You've got a minute."

Caleb's mass of hair bobbed up and down as he nodded and Will found that she couldn't stop smiling at him. Who knew he wouldn't like 'coasters. "You know.." She had a funny feeling he was swallowing bile between the heavy breaths, and Will stepped forward to pat his back soothingly, stopping just before she did; realizing how inappropriate it might be for his archaic, 'antique' morals. Meridian was like the dark ages. "I only did that.."

"Cale-"

"With the boy.." The humor had worn off and she stood awkwardly beside him, only now realizing that so many people were taking a quick look as they bypassed; to see if the poor boy had been sick yet. "The heart, Will.." She opened her mouth to say something, about his specticle, but Caleb stood up and looked at her with disorientated emerald eyes, a faint smile making her feel a little better, "It's a precious thing."[0]

What did that mean? The heart? Who's heart? Hers? ..His? She felt her cheeks darken considerably, not sure what to say, but it didn't matter, as right then he threw up right between them and it hit her, along with a breeze that blew away her sudden anxiety; the Heart. Around her neck. Will's hand automatically flew to the invisible bump within the zip of her jacket and she smiled stiffly at the heaving boy in front of her. "So.. Elyon?"

...

Hay Lin squinted slightly at the boy, Brian. She beckoned a slight breeze to carry his words as he and Elyon drifted away, the sounds of the carnival growing fainter around her. As much as she loved to soar through the air, or whip up a tornado, Hay Lin predicted this was her best power. "So, you hang with these girls.. All the time?"

"They're acting kind of weird tonight.." Elyon smiled back at her, Irma and Taranee as she said it, holding onto her hotdog, "You just have to know them."

He turned around then, and Hay Lin held her gaze steadily to Brian's penetrating green eyes. "Or not."

"Anything?" Taranee looked a her from the side, while Irma bit into a hotdog. Hay Lin waited until the couple had turned the corner completely to turn back, shaking her head.

...

"We can't get close to her with them around." Lord Cedric shifted the waistband of his denim pants, not really looking at the guard he'd taken through the portal. "I need a diversion."

As if volunteering, the larveck squealed.

...

"She's done nothing wrong, but we're following her like she's some kind of criminal!" Cornelia paced forward, well aware of Will at her heels.

"You heard what Mrs Lin said, they're going to come for her!" Cornelia turned, leaning over Will intimidatingly. She preferred when Will didn't fight back. Before she'd let her play leader. Now Will had had a taste and thought she could make the rules. Thought she'd come before Elyon. Guess again.

"I don't even know if I believe any of this about Elyon." Cornelia turned her back to Will then, why had she ever chosen to listen to Will at all.

Will's sadism floated past her over the carnival music, making her want to scream in frustration. "You're also the one who didn't believe we could fly."

[0] Slight symbolism there. This can take two meanings- Caleb meant the Heart of Kandrakar, but it could also be taken as his heart; his jealousy.. Was the heart just an excuse for his protectiveness? O_o