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I f I had super speed, I would have been gone by now because I was pretty sure I knew what I wanted to eat. Sage smelled amazing. So did Khalid. I didn’t even like Liam and I’d get my revenge for that kick, so he should have smelled rancid to me, but he didn’t.

I didn’t want to eat a baby, but I very much wanted to sink my teeth into any of them and see what happened. Sage especially since she smelled the best. I’d never hurt her. I didn’t know why, but I was very sure of that.

I wasn’t a violent person. I didn’t even kill spiders. I just walked them outside, but I really wouldn’t mind hurting Liam. If I needed to bite someone, it should be him. Except I couldn’t. The wildlife agreed to help Sage because of Liam. He was the only one who could communicate with them and if he was dead, I didn’t know if they would still help feed Sage.

I couldn’t risk it and I respected Khalid, so I wouldn’t bite him. I might heal fast for some reason, but that arrow hurt. I didn’t want to get attacked again because I didn’t want to get hurt and I didn’t want Sage hurt. Liam’s only redeeming quality was that he was that protective of Sage.

Khalid and Liam seemed to be able to navigate by the sky. Excuse me for never thinking I’d need that when I had GPS on my phone. I wasn’t expecting my parents to let me get kidnapped and dumped in the butt crack of England.

The new senses were a little neat, even if I’d gone all bitey and hungry all the time.

“We’re about to get ambushed again. I know what fairies smell like now. It’s not fairies this time.”

I was glad. Fairies smelled fantastic and if one of them hadn’t shot me, I might have figured out I had the urge to bite someone sooner and killed that fairy. I didn’t want to kill anyone.

I didn’t want to bite them either. There were all kinds of germs on people’s skin that I could get in my mouth. What if they’d gone their entire life without properly washing their neck with soap? I liked my food properly seasoned, but not like that.

And why was I even thinking of people as food?

I’d figured at least one thing out. If someone was attacking us in these trials, taking their time doing it, and being pretty obvious about it, they weren’t just really fucking arrogant. They had super speed, and I was the only person on my team who could see them like that.

I might even have super speed, which would be rather neat. Sage said the group of fairies didn’t want to hurt us, but we had fairy lore in Romania, too. Some were good, and some weren’t. I didn’t think any of the fairies who attacked us were Romanian fairies.

Just because we met a group of good fairies didn’t mean there weren’t bad people at this school. I had massive trust issues long before my parents let me get kidnapped. This group could actually want to kill us.

I’d been told my eyes flashed red and Khalid explained there were plenty of gods with red eyes, but I didn’t particularly like that this group of supernaturals all had glowing red eyes. As much as I loathed to agree with him, my mind automatically went to demon.

When one approached me, I hissed at him since that seemed to work with the fairy I caught, but something different happened this time. My mouth hurt. What the fuck? I took excellent care of my mouth and even I knew one day sleeping outside without indoor plumbing wasn’t going to mess up my teeth.

And then everything just stopped. The group stopped their attack and prostrated themselves before me.

Which was fucked up because I don’t think I would have liked that even if I was first in line for the throne.