So? Did you like Bi's POV? Tbh, that chapter wasn't my favourite, but it only gets better from here on out. Have you guessed what Tam and Linh are doing for Kae yet? If not, guess away! Tell me what you think! Have fun! One thing, though. I have two questions for you guys. One : Do you prefer when I write with less dialogue, or more dialogue? Two : Who's POV do you want to hear from the most? Keefe, Kara, Biana, Sophie, Fitz, or Dex? I'll possibly consider some of them, depending on if you want to hear it or not.
As we're given our beads, I watch Keefe and Dex yell at the coaches, trying to get two extra ones for Sophie and Fitz. Biana definitely found me, but, after a moment, she joins in too. Nothing works, and we're all dismissed to no avail.
Ready? The shade asks with his shadow, stepping a little closer to me.
Yeah. Where are we going?
Where my sister and I are staying. It's the only place we can reach, except wherever you go.
We can't go there. My friends and a gnome will be there, and they'll already be pissed at the two who jumped off the cliff.
Why?
Because we don't actually know where they are. I doubt they got to Luminaria, 'cause, you know, guards and stuff.
Fair point. Ready?
Sure.
He extends a hand, and I stare at it for a few seconds. Can you grab my wrist?
Why?
It's the thing I need to talk to your sister about.
Fine. Whatever. He takes my wrist lightly in his palm, and grabs the hydrokinetic girl with the other. She holds up a simple yellow crystal pendant, and we glitter away from the plague pit, only to appear in another one.
'What do you want?' he asks immediately, as soon as we get there.
'Is this… Never mind. And I said, I don't need your help. I need her's.'
'What do you need me for?' the girl asks meekly.
'It's a long story.'
'We've got time,' he says.
'I thought you only gave me fifteen minutes?' I challenge.
'You did. I don't care, as long as you leave at some point.'
'Okay.'
The girl reaches up and removes her hood and mask, which incites some rude grumbling from her brother, before he does the same. They both have almond shaped eyes, and long black hair with silver dyed ends.
I follow their examples, and we all sit on the hard floor. I try to ignore the plagued trees, though I'm already kind of used to it after school today. 'Do you want the abbreviated long version, or the long-long version, of this story?'
'Long-long,' the girl tells me. 'By the way, I'm Linh, and this is Tam.'
'Kara.'
'That's an odd name,' mutters Tam.
'It's short for Karalahni, but don't you ever call me that, or I swear…'
'Just tell the story.'
'Okay. Fine. You're getting the abbreviated version, because everything is too hard to explain in much detail, without telling you guys all about some of my friends' stuff. Basically, I manifested as a telepath a month or two ago, and then me and my friends got into this huge fight with this incredibly huge and horrible evel rebel organisation called the Neverseen, and this other rebel group who's good, called the Black Swan, helped us. Then it turns out that both my parents and my aunt are a part of it. I think my parents died, but my aunt is off in ogre jail planning something evil for my cousin, and the council already hates us and everything, so we ran away to join the Black Swan. Then we get banished and have to go to Exilium. But then, this morning, I woke up on fire.'
'What!' the hydrokinetic yelps, scotting away from me. Tam does the same.
'Yep.' I stare at my shoes. 'Apparently I'm a pyrokinetic.'
'But you're a telepath!' Linh says softly.
'I know.' And then my emotions flare and my fingertips combust. I smack them out, but the twins are already scooting farther away. 'Oh, come off it. I mean, we all face stupid prejudices, don't we? Twins? Pyrokinetics? The Black Swan?'
'Fair enough, but still!'
Tam mutters something unintelligible, and then asks louder, 'What do you need Linh's help for?'
'I wanted to know if you could do something with water to make it so that I can't burn anything.'
'Oh.' Ling rubs her temples. 'Maybe? But… We'd need a technopath. I can't do anything like that myself.'
'I know a technopath,' I admit, sighing and hugging my knees to my chest. 'But he can't know about this. I could probably steal some of his gears and stuff, but I doubt you know how to work them?'
'No,' she agrees, leaning against her brother.
'What if you tricked him into making something that you could change a little bit?' suggests Tam, and I turn to him in confusion,
'I thought you didn't want Linh to help?'
'Besides the fact that I can't control her, I want to see what she can do. Plus, we still never agreed upon what you owe me, other than telling the five-abilitied girl to thank Linh herself, and that doesn't really count.'
'True.'
'So, can you do that?'
'Maybe, but what would we need him to make?'
Linh mutters something to herself, and then sits up taller. 'I just need something to conduct the water through, so maybe get him to make some sort of storage thing that can project it into thin gloves?'
'I can try, but how exactly will I get him to make that?'
Tam shrugs. 'I dunno. But now you owe us big time.'
'Deal.'
'You should probably go back now,' Linh murmurs.
'I guess.'
'One thing,' Tam adds, grabbing my wrist before I can leap away. 'Don't tell your friends you met with us.'
'Is that the condition?'
'Nope.'
'Okay. But, sure. I should go.'
'Tell us when you have it,' Linh tells me, and I nod, lifting the crystal up to the light.
'There's something weird about her,' I can hear Tam mutter as I fade into the glitter. 'I can feel it.'
'Is that why you helped her?'
But I can't hear his response as I reappear in the Crooked Forest, and everyone starts screaming at me.