NINA'S POV
"WHAT is going on?" I demand. "Where are you guys taking me? Eddie Patricia? Someone?"
Two of the people who are 'kidnapping' me I've never seen before. One is a short girl with fiery red hair, and the other is a scrawny brown haired boy. They both look too young to be in high school.
None of the four turn around to explain. Joy and Jerome tried their best before I was taken away. They mentioned a rogue teacher threatening Eddie's life named "Madame Kahn." That name sounds weird…
Wait, if I rearrange the letters…
KAHN… ANKH!
"Guys!" I exclaim. "If you rearrange the letters in Kahn's name, it spells ankh! Ankh was an Egyptian symbol of life!"
Again, none of them even pause for a moment to explain.
"Ok, yeah, sure, could just be a coincidence, I guess," I say nonchalantly as they ignore my epiphany.
"This is where it happened!" Eddie exclaims up ahead of me. "These are the woods from my vision!"
Vision? I'm way behind.
"Eddie! Wait up!" A girl's voice calls from behind me. I turn around to see a brunette girl with long, curly locks and pale skin dashing in our direction.
"Esmay!" Eddie calls. So her name is Esmay.
"Joy told me you guys left to find Madame," Esmay says. "She said Cassidy mentioned I'm some sort of descendant of a god. She told me to come here and find you."
The girl, who I assume is the one named Cassidy says, "Joy told me that you had a locket just like Nina's. I knew from that moment you were the last descendant we needed to defeat Madame."
Locket? Why has no one told me any of this. I clutch the necklace's chain around my neck.
"How does she have a locket like mine? Is that even possible?" I ask.
Esmay removes a chain hidden beneath her dress straps. When she shows it to me, I can't imagine how much my pupils must dilate. I'm surprised they don't bug out of my head. Her Horus locket is identical to mine.
"My brother gave this to me," Esmay says with a sulk, as if this is a sore subject to her. "It was the last thing he gave me before he… died. Sometimes, I feel like he is watching me, helping me out. I feel like I can hear him speaking to me in my head. Is that crazy?"
"Not at all," the boy speaks. "It's happened to me. I think I hear my parents sometimes. They died in an insane asylum after I went crazy at school. They couldn't understand what I was doing and… went crazy. I hear them talking to me sometimes."
This sounds so familiar to me. "The lady who gave this necklace to me, Sarah her name was," I say. "She speaks to me, too. Maybe it's part of this descendant thing."
Descendant thing. There's an entire group of people who understand what I go through, who understand me.
"Hey, not to ruin the moment or anything," Eddie interrupts. "But that vision I had about Patricia and the woods? Yeah, I don't want it to come true, so we should really get to that site and stop Madame before it does."
"Vision?" I ask.
"Don't worry," the redheaded girl says. "I'll explain everything along the way. We just need to get there before one of us is dead."
"Dead?" Esmay and I remark in unison.
"Heh, um, yeah, there may have been something Eddie and I forgot to mention."
The girl, Cassidy, begins to explain to me Eddie's dream about Patricia, which frightens me immensely, and her theory about there only being four descendants alive at once. I'm terrified to follow through with this.
"The woods are right over there," Eddie remarks. "We need to get there, find Madame Kahn and stop this madness before someone gets hurt."