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this place.’
Laura glared at him. Drew beamed back.
Leo passed a
worried looking Stella stalking down the hallway, and made a sharp U-turn, following
her to their office.
‘What’s the matter?’ He questioned her, closing the door behind him
Stella spun around to face him.
‘This,’ she thrust a piece of paper into Leo’s hands with a huff.
Leo removed his glasses from his pocket and placed them on the bridge of his
nose.
‘Really Leo, that is truly the best way to break those glasses and we
will have to buy yet another pair.’
Leo looked up at Stella through his lenses.
She waved a hand, ‘sorry. Just read.’
Leo read the page, and slowly his blood began to boil, as Estella’s obviously
already had.
‘How could they be so foolish?’ He was far from happy, ‘what is this?’ he
pointed to a line in the letter, ‘not high on our priorities… looks like just
another accident… mortals always have affairs with our kind…’ he looked up from
the paper and shook his head, furious, ‘in the past year the death of pregnant
Warlocks has gone up by 40% and at the same time the mother of the one girl who
survived just this situation is kidnapped and the father murdered, but we are expected
to just brush it off as a ‘strange’ coincidence? They can never be bothered to
really take interest in a case that appears to require too much dedication.’
‘What do we do now? They’re searching for Cara, but they will never trust
what we say until it’s too late and then Laura will never forgive us. Not to
mention the horrors that could be unleashed if they actually manage to get
their hands on the girl.’
Leo tore the letter in half, ‘not if I have anything to do with it. Later we
will go back to her farm and investigate. Surely there will be clues.’
Stella huffed, ‘hope so.’
Laura
followed Drew up the staircase, entering through the door behind him. When he
finally moved out of her view, her eyes widened. She was standing in one
enormous room that covered the whole top floor.
The training room.
The floors were wooden, the walls and ceiling white, and the entire wall
opposite them was covered by tinted glass windows. Laura could see the farmland
reaching out for miles, winding roads separating the grassy land. Pulling her
eyes from the window, she noticed the training equipment around the room. Dummies
in one corner, gym equipment in another and target practice complete with
bullseye’s and a wooden board set up in the third corner. In the last was the
only separate room in the entire space. The gun room, Drew told her. Completely
bullet and sound proof.
‘Wow,’ breathed Laura.
‘I know. Leo and Stella really went all out with this place.’
‘Why bother training with old fashioned swords when you own guns? That surly
is more effective?’ She finally asked after sweeping her eyes across the area
another three times.
Drew shrugged, ‘only silver can kill a Wicked, and only gold can kill an
Enchanted. That’s why our swords, daggers and other weapons are all silver.
Silver and gold bullets are hard to make, the weight and entity of the metal
doesn’t react well with the gunpowder, so they’re hard to come by, making
blades more practical.’
‘Wouldn’t they be heavy though?’
‘Oh they are heavy, indeed, however we train to endure and wield the mass. I
believe the fact that they react with our being helps ease the weight
somewhat.’
She nodded in understanding, eyes still wandering, ‘so… how was training with
Caspian?’
He eyed her suspiciously, ‘good, why do you ask?’
She shrugged, ‘just wondering. What did you guys do? Duel or something.’
‘Yes, why?’
Laura choked on a laugh, taken by surprise.
‘What?’ He frowned, drifting to a cupboard and removing two towels, slinging
them over a hook.
‘Duelling? We aren’t duelling are we?’
‘God no, way to advanced stuff for you. Until you
Laura glared at him. Drew beamed back.
Leo passed a
worried looking Stella stalking down the hallway, and made a sharp U-turn, following
her to their office.
‘What’s the matter?’ He questioned her, closing the door behind him
Stella spun around to face him.
‘This,’ she thrust a piece of paper into Leo’s hands with a huff.
Leo removed his glasses from his pocket and placed them on the bridge of his
nose.
‘Really Leo, that is truly the best way to break those glasses and we
will have to buy yet another pair.’
Leo looked up at Stella through his lenses.
She waved a hand, ‘sorry. Just read.’
Leo read the page, and slowly his blood began to boil, as Estella’s obviously
already had.
‘How could they be so foolish?’ He was far from happy, ‘what is this?’ he
pointed to a line in the letter, ‘not high on our priorities… looks like just
another accident… mortals always have affairs with our kind…’ he looked up from
the paper and shook his head, furious, ‘in the past year the death of pregnant
Warlocks has gone up by 40% and at the same time the mother of the one girl who
survived just this situation is kidnapped and the father murdered, but we are expected
to just brush it off as a ‘strange’ coincidence? They can never be bothered to
really take interest in a case that appears to require too much dedication.’
‘What do we do now? They’re searching for Cara, but they will never trust
what we say until it’s too late and then Laura will never forgive us. Not to
mention the horrors that could be unleashed if they actually manage to get
their hands on the girl.’
Leo tore the letter in half, ‘not if I have anything to do with it. Later we
will go back to her farm and investigate. Surely there will be clues.’
Stella huffed, ‘hope so.’
Laura
followed Drew up the staircase, entering through the door behind him. When he
finally moved out of her view, her eyes widened. She was standing in one
enormous room that covered the whole top floor.
The training room.
The floors were wooden, the walls and ceiling white, and the entire wall
opposite them was covered by tinted glass windows. Laura could see the farmland
reaching out for miles, winding roads separating the grassy land. Pulling her
eyes from the window, she noticed the training equipment around the room. Dummies
in one corner, gym equipment in another and target practice complete with
bullseye’s and a wooden board set up in the third corner. In the last was the
only separate room in the entire space. The gun room, Drew told her. Completely
bullet and sound proof.
‘Wow,’ breathed Laura.
‘I know. Leo and Stella really went all out with this place.’
‘Why bother training with old fashioned swords when you own guns? That surly
is more effective?’ She finally asked after sweeping her eyes across the area
another three times.
Drew shrugged, ‘only silver can kill a Wicked, and only gold can kill an
Enchanted. That’s why our swords, daggers and other weapons are all silver.
Silver and gold bullets are hard to make, the weight and entity of the metal
doesn’t react well with the gunpowder, so they’re hard to come by, making
blades more practical.’
‘Wouldn’t they be heavy though?’
‘Oh they are heavy, indeed, however we train to endure and wield the mass. I
believe the fact that they react with our being helps ease the weight
somewhat.’
She nodded in understanding, eyes still wandering, ‘so… how was training with
Caspian?’
He eyed her suspiciously, ‘good, why do you ask?’
She shrugged, ‘just wondering. What did you guys do? Duel or something.’
‘Yes, why?’
Laura choked on a laugh, taken by surprise.
‘What?’ He frowned, drifting to a cupboard and removing two towels, slinging
them over a hook.
‘Duelling? We aren’t duelling are we?’
‘God no, way to advanced stuff for you. Until you
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