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S age and I were the ones who could feel people. We needed training on that. I didn’t know how to focus mine or how to interpret what I was feeling. Sage nudged me and I picked up the same thing.

Mazen didn’t want to tell anyone what he saw. Ivar took the attention off of him and went first.

“Ari saw the forest.”

I guess Lucian finally decided to help out.

“We met bear shifters. Ari smells like them. I’m pretty sure he’s the original.”

Ari beamed and I could tell he was happy with that. Ivar wrapped his arms around him and hugged him.

“That makes so much sense, my love.”

Yeah, I really wasn’t picking up violent vibes from either of these guys. They were both big enough to hurt someone like that, but my feeling was more that they knew they were massive and tried to be as non-threatening as possible because they were completely harmless for the most part.

“I couldn’t see a damned thing,” Alexios said. “It was like staring into the sun and my head has been excruciating since.”

“You’re probably a sun god,” I said.

“Thanks, I’m not an idiot. I’m also Greek. Helios was the sun god, but we’ve also got Apollo, who was associated with light and then Hemera, who was goddess of daylight. I could be any one of them and I’m guessing this headache won’t go away until I figure that out.”

“Do any of them have horns?” Liam asked. “Because my forehead is all bollixed because I think I’m growing them. I can also talk to animals.”

Every single fairy drew in a breath and looked at Liam with awe and a lot more respect. They also didn’t seem to want to tell anyone what they knew.

“I saw three of me in different outfits. A fairy told me I’m some kind of god/fae mix. My familiar won’t show herself, but she spoke to me and she’s Irish, so I’m pretty sure I was in my original life. I can feel certain things, but I don’t really understand them.”

“My family is Coptic. I went to a private religious school. They don’t really teach the ancient gods there and I wasn’t all that interested in reading about them. I saw the night sky,” Radames said.

“There were several moon gods. It would depend on what the moon was doing in your vision,” I said.

Radames just shrugged like he didn’t want to contribute anymore. I was mainly interested in Mazen and Lola. I put a pause on my feelings about his tattoos and what they were associated with for now, but he definitely didn’t want to talk about what he saw and that was shady. Lola made me seriously uncomfortable, and I was trying to fight that because she was a victim. I also needed to know why she set me on edge.

“I saw me laying in a field of flowers with my Nabhi chakra lit up,” Lola said.

That wouldn’t have been such a red flag. Plenty of people were into chakras now. I hadn’t read much on the subject, but I found it very odd something associated with Hindus and Buddhists showed up on an English girl with blonde hair and blue eyes. Still, what did I know about all of this? I hadn’t learned enough about the subject yet.

We all turned to look at Mazen because he was the only one left.

“This is stupid. Headmaster Mykene said we are completely different from our originals, but you’re all going to judge me. Especially the nerd.”

“Lucian is Vlad the Impaler and I’m not judging him.”

“You judged me the first time you met me because of my tattoos. Where I grew up, you need these for protection. The only crimes I committed were against bad people who weren’t going to be punished.”

“And I’m sorry, but I only know the stories my baba tells me about people who have those tattoos.”

“Well, clearly, you don’t know the entire story.”

“Spit it out, mate. We need to get out of here and we’re your best chance. I don’t know shit about Egyptian gods and if you want to hurt some bad guys here in England, I want to ride shotgun,” Liam said.

“Fine. I didn’t do a damned thing, but in my original life, I was Set.”

God of war, chaos, and storms. Fuck me.