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"What the hell did you morons do?"
"What? Fai asked, a little louder than he'd meant, "What happened?"
Mangetsu answered for him.
"We sealed the room. Don't get nuts, we did it together to mask our auras so they can't track us-"
"That doesn't matter if you just put up a giant, magical… signal flare as to where you are before you leave, idiots…"
"But we blended our auras, he won't recognize-"
"He doesn't have to, who else would be using that caliber of magic this late at night?"
"This late at what?"
"Damien!"
Fai regained Damien's attention, desperate for answers.
"What happened? How did you know?"
"Ashura put out the call to shift!"
They both looked at him, thoroughly confused.
"What does that…?"
"What do you mean, 'What does that mean?'? Don't you know?"
"Would he have asked if he knew?"
Damien sighed and rolled his head.
"It's an order for all the weres in the army to change form. It's just an order right now, but if in a minute if some of… them still haven't, he'll put a force on it and they'll shift automatically."
Fai shook his head slowly.
"Weres...?"
"Werewolves, you moron!"
Mangetsu choked.
"Who the fuck uses werewolves anymore?"
Fai didn't speak, just thought back to his history lessons. Mangetsu was right; armies, especially the Royal Army, hadn't included werewolves in their ranks for centuries. They were considered too unpredictable, dangerous, to be given any sort of authority. Werewolves had never been common, but Fai hadn't though any were left. He certainly hadn't known they were in the army, but as Damien spoke, it began to make sense.
"We didn't always, it's pretty recent. But for some reason, Ashura keeps trying to supplement the army, his defenses, everything. He reintroduced the draft and made it so it included weres… I don't know why, but it doesn't matter, you guys need to get out of here now."
"Alright then,"
Mangetsu turned and continued walking out, talking over her shoulder.
"Let's go. You're coming with, aren't you?"
"No!" Damien exclaimed too quickly, making them both freeze.
"No." He corrected calmly. "I'm fine here; nothing's gonna happen to me. I just want to get you… both of you out."
"But…" Fai hadn't really thought about it, he'd been so distracted, but he would miss Damien if he didn't come.
"You have to come…"
"You have to go. I'll be fine; I'm not exactly high profile, unlike you…"
His tone was teasing, but it didn't make Fai feel any better.
"C'mon,"
He grabbed Fai's arm, people were doing that a lot lately, and led them the rest of the way out.
When they left the building, Damien stumbled, grunted, doubled over and put a hand to his head. Fai grabbed him, panicked.
"What's wrong, are you okay?"
"Fine," He stood up, panting. "That was the force coming through…"
He seemed dazed, but suddenly, his eyes went wide and he turned to Fai.
"All guards feel it, you know? Not just weres, everyone."
"Okay…"
Fai didn't really get his point, but he kept walking. They were nearing the edge of palace grounds when they heard a howl sound behind them. Damien and Mangetsu cursed in tandem. Damien was breathing heavily and Fai asked once more if he was okay.
"I'm fine, promise. I can't go any further though. I'm gonna deal with the soldiers that are coming."
"Are you sure-"
"Fai!" Damien cut him off. Was he sweating? It was freezing…
"I'll be fine! Worry about yourselves. I'll see you guys again."
He looked over his shoulder and Fai followed his gaze; even in the dark, he could make out shadowy figures, both upright and four legged, moving around and making their way down the slope of the floating land mass that was the palace grounds.
"You have to go now. They're on their way."
"Вянуть; блёкнуть; затихать. "
Mangetsu called and the white tiger appeared beside her. She turned to Fai.
"How do we get down?"
Fai looked down; they were close to the edge of the palace grounds. There were winding stairs that descended into nothingness and he knew they couldn't take them. He could see the lights of the city glittering less than a mile away, just far down.
"We have to teleport. It's not far away, we're just up high. Have you ever used a teleportation spell before?"
"Nope."
"Okay, they aren't too hard if you're staying within your dimension and we're only going a short distance so it should be okay. It has to be spelled out in runes though."
He turned back to say good bye Damien before showing Mangetsu the spell, but he wasn't there.
"Damien?"
Mangetsu looked around.
"He must have gone, don't worry about it. C'mon."
"O-okay…" He turned back and went through the sequence with her. They each produced their own spell and, as Fai felt himself drift through space for seconds that felt like minutes, he forced the fear and anxiety to the back of his mind and got ready for what ever was on the other side.
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