Page 233 of The Lost Ones

“That should be enough to get me up to full strength.” Jax says as he dismounts his horse and walks over to the stream, taking off his boots and socks as he goes. “At least I think it will, I’m still in the dark on most of it.”

“Good, hopefully it will work, everyone needs to be at full strength if we’re going to pull this off.” Levi says.

“I’ll get a fire going and catch some lunch. I know it’s not time yet but it’ll save time later on if we’ve already got it caught and ready to go.” Hunter says.

“Good plan.” Levi agrees. “Kysen can you contact your brothers?”

“On it.” Kysen replies.

He sits down, Ghost and Knot flying into the clearing and landing next to Kysen. I watch as his eyes glaze slightly, he’s still aware of everything like we are but is talking through his bond lines. After a while he refocuses and scrubs a hand over his face.

“Are you ok?” I ask him.

“Yeah, they’re coming. They’re hiding something from me, it’s probably nothing to worry about but it’s still pretty obvious.”

Chapter Twenty-One

Erin

We’ve just gotten back to the room after breakfast, none of us have lessons this morning thanks to some sort of compulsory meeting or training I’m not entirely sure. They were a bit vague on the details.

“So is this normal?” Jett asks Harry and the guys as we all walk into their room.

“What the training?” Ty replies putting air quotes around the word training. “Yeah it’s normal, about once a month they have them, no one is really certain what they’re about apart from a few of the eldest students.”

“Fair enough.” Nate replies, “Yet another mystery for this damn place.”

“Do you want a drink?” Dash asks everyone, we’ve gotten comfortable enough to help ourselves to stuff in each other’s rooms.

“Guys?” Kyle asks when none of them reply to Dash.

“I think they’re talking to Sen, they’ve got that glazed look going on again.” Damon chuckles as he stuffs another chip in his mouth.

“Yes we are, now shhh Dude.” Asher admonishes lightly.

Damon chuckles and mimes zipping his mouth shut.

“I hope they’re ok, last time he properly got in contact it was because Levi had been bitten.” I mutter worriedly. “And then again when Sage got shot with a damn arrow.”

“I’m sure they’re fine.” Jett says rubbing a hand comfortingly down my back.

Even so we just sit there in tense silence whilst we wait for them to finish their conversation and fill us in. The frowns that mar their features at first are not promising although the excited grins that soon follow are an intriguing follow up that has several of us sitting forward in our seats in anticipation.

As their eyes finally clear there’s a sudden glow of magic that has all ofus up and into defensive positions, Harry and the others too, all of us with our weapons drawn.

“Knot! Ghost!” I exclaim excitedly shocking Asher and his brothers as I rush up to the two familiars that have just appeared in a swirl of magic.

Ghost flaps his wings excitedly as he caws at me and I bend down so I can stroke him. Knot almost immediately turns into her fox form and start to bound around the room in excitement before she hops into my lap knocking me backwards.

“What the fuck is happening right now?” Ty exclaims for once caught out and not predicting this.

My guys fall back onto the couch and chuckle at the surely amusing scene in front of them.

“Seriously, what the hellfire?” Harry chimes in none of them having dropped their weapons yet.

Not that I can blame them, this is a pretty weird situation.

“Sorry, sorry, guys this is Ghost and Knot,” I say pointing to them respectively “they’re Sage’s familiars.”