Kara
"Dead?" Kara asked, not believing the news, "What do you mean 'dead'?"
"Dead. Not living. What else could I mean by 'dead'?" Emily said sadly, her distress coming out as sarcasm. She was twirling her short red hair with her fingers in a nervous way.
"You saw the body?" Kara inquired. Her head was spinning. She had lots of friends, close friends, distant friends, best friends, animal friends, and mage friends. Adriane had been one of her closest mage friends (friends who use magic). And now she was just dead?
"No, not her body...her ghost," Emily told the blazing star in a low voice. "I saw Adriane's ghost!" The healer burst into a fit of tears. After a few minutes of trying to comfort her friend, Kara heard footsteps behind them. Kara spun around.
"What on the Web?" Kara asked as she saw the person standing before her, "Now I'm really confused,"
Beasley Windor
"You can't do this to me!" Beasley Windor shrieked at the head councilman. He ignored her, slamming the great doors of the Town Hall in her beet-red face. 's beady eyes glared at the doors for a moment before she spun around, brushed her short brown hair over her shoulders, and marched away from the Stonehill Town Hall.
"Fired?!" growled t herself as she walked, "They can't fire me! I'm the best council member they've got! I'm the only one who was smart enough to know about that no good–" She stopped walking.
narrowed her eyes as she remembered the cause of her trouble. She'd wanted to mow down that ridiculous wildlife preserve to make something worth having: a beautiful country club.
And yet three teenage girls had outsmarted her. They had taken their magic and gotten her fired. Yes, magic. Unnatural powers that didn't belong here on Earth. "They didn't believe me!" cried, "The council thought I'd gone mad and they–" she paused mid-sentence. "And they fired me,"
Beasley Windor gazed ahead triumphantly, "If I can prove that it exists, that magic, they'll take me back, being the only sane one! They'll made me head of the council! They'll have to, seeing as I'm the only one with any sense!" She smiled to herself, happily adopting her new plan, and then she turned on her heels and headed home to plot her revenge on the mages.
Emily
"What on the Web?" Kara asked, confusion clear in her voice, "Now I'm really confused," Emily glanced up, spotting the blurry, blond hair of her friend through her tears. She saw another figure too, and her heart leapt to her throat.
Emily sprang forward with a cry of "Adriane!" and threw her arms around her tired looking, but very much alive, best friend. "We thought you were dead! And now you're not! And we're so super happy!"
"Um, okay." Adriane said, "Why would you think I'd died?"
"Emily saw your ghost," Kara explained, "By the way, you look like a ghost yourself. Where have you been all day?" Adriane shrugged her shoulders, shaking her head and squinting as if she were trying to remember something.
"No idea. I was on my way to school this morning and I think I passed out. I woke up about two hours ago, but I didn't think going to school had any point, seeing as it was already after noon. I've been in Ravenswood ever sense, just helping out around the preserve,"
"So why are you here now?" Kara questioned, suspicion dripping from her words.
"Calm down, Barbie, my jewel started glowing and stinging so I followed it in this direction. It stopped a couple of minutes ago, but then I heard crying so I came here. I don't know what happened, you guys have any idea?"
Emily stood up and wiped the tears from her cheeks, "Nope, but I think I know who might be able to explain this," The three girls looked at each other and spoke at the same time.
"Tweek,"
