Lies. All lies. I saw him there. Yes, he feels empty, but he's no animal. There's definitely something human in there. And he has a long-term plan, which isn't something mindless creatures do."Was our whole mission for nothing?" Diana's the one to ask, surprisingly. She was doing this just for Erik. I don't see how it can be considered a failure to her. "The world was never in danger?""Oh, the ritual to enter our world was real. He just happened to pull off another one on top of it" Of course he did. "You did best him, which he'll remember. From here on out, he knows your names and faces, and considers you proper obstacles. Don't think of him as some giant who squashes people beneath his big boots. Jonah remembers, and schemes, and attacks personally. I suspect your dreams won't be pleasant for a while, Well, which is it? Is he just a creature, or does he think? Nen is seriously losing it. Are they all really this scared of one being? I find it hard to imagine the teachers having tr

"Thank you.""I didn't.... Oh, nevermind. So, what have you been up to?"I shrug. "It's only been a few days, you realize." It's the tenth of January, the first school day official starting tomorrow.There's something I have to ask, though. That's the one big thing that's on my mind"Maya, have you been having strange dreams?" Such as seeing all these people from school inside some strange garden you've never visited before, per chance?"Oh, uh" Blushing, she starts rubbing her knees together. Wow, she's got it bad. "They've mostly been about Erik" Oh, that is just so lame. "I know it's pathetic, but I can't seem to think about anything else."Neither can he, apparently, walking over and throwing his arm around her, pulling her in. "Hey, babe."She smiles up at him, their lips mere inches apart. "Hi, baby"Right here in front of everyone, they start making out. Even Antoine, usually stoic, calm, unwavering, looks uncomfortable"Should we give them some privacy?""I have a better idea"

The news covered that? How? With what footage? There's no chance any chopper could have withstood the magic being sent around that place. An illusionary jungle was created for miles around it, too. Did they just use words?The lack of an image is very likely to have the common masses just as fearful as the students are.Quinn, shoulders slumped, sits down on her chair. "I think you deserve to know. Really, I do. It's just not that simple. There are things you can never know about him things you aren't physically able to know. I'm sorry you're scared, and I'm sorry some of you will have to leave, but my decision is final. I'm not saying another word."She tries to make us focus on more nonsense with our guardianshaving them manifest into our world and such- but I'm pretty sure the mood is too dead for anyone to focus.Levitation is a welcome relief, as always. We simply practice some of our moves. Now that Rosa is gone, only Diana and I are actually capable of flight.Roger is here, to

ANASTASIAThe maid is beginning to irk me. The fool is incapable of dusting anything off without dropping it. The earrings we gave her are the only reason I haven't fired her aiready. If she can't offer good services, at least she can offer her energy. Shouldn't be long before her Soul Seed shows itself.I wish there were a quicker method. The Heralds are hunting for us relentlessly, always sending one of them to search. the globe. The Master is keeping us hidden from them, but that simply means wasting his power on things other than his revival, slowing things down even further.I enter Doctor Crowley's lab, the scanner set to recognize my eyes. Once inside, I walk over to the large glass wall, through which the Doctor is currently looking. "You called, sir?""It's about to happen""What is, sir?"A man is inside the other room, in the nude, strapped to the operating table. He keeps twitching around, his eyes flickering with a strange, red light. Every few seconds, a rune appears on

HOTARUPotions aren't really a class I remember all that much about, for whatever reason. Quinn is the teacher, and seems to be looking kind of stiff whenever our eyes meet. Why do I not remember this?I seem to remember the potions well enough, I just don't remember learning how to make any of them. What gives? It's a class we only take once a week, so it should be pretty memorableSeeing that one of the pages of my book has had its comer folded, so I turn toward it. 'Memoria Damnum: How to Delete Someone's Memories.I guess that explains it.With Mac no longer interested, Maya is the only other person who bothered to take it, and this is the one class she excels at. Doesn't take much magic control to make a potion work, so I guess it makes sense she'd put all her energy into this.it's the last class of the day, so we're all free to meet up once it's over. Other than Diana, I'm the first to arrive at the library, Maya probably heading off to meet with Erik first to try and steal eve