Jane and Aubrey arrived at Frost mansion with sullen and downcast faces. They had been unsuccessful at getting to Con. He had still insisted on the fact that what he was doing was too dangerous for any of them to attempt.If he involved them in it then there would be no going back and he didn't want that to happen to them. He didn't want them to be at perpetual risk and he would know that he had been the reason they were in that state.He said he would rather lose them and that had been the end of it. They had both stood up, picked Lisa from the conservatory and even though she had asked to be allowed to stay for a few more minutes. She had been firmly refused and asked to get into the car.Now they were back at Xavier's place and Jane was trying to put on a brave face but she was failing miserably.She felt like she had just lost some part of herself. She was annoyed, and angry, and feeling foolish, so so foolish.There was no way she would allow this to ever happen again. She would
"Mr Frost?"Xavier could hear nothing. "Mr Frost, snap out of it."The panic in Clay's voice was more than audible enough for anyone listening to hear it, but no one was around and the only one who could hear him panicking was the source of his panic.Xavier Frost was laying on the floor and blue energy was leaking out his body and freezing everything in the atmosphere. It was not a fun sight to see.Even the air around them was now thicker and laden with frost. There was no way to speak without seeing it in the air, and there was no way to not notice it. The door had been frozen shut, the windows would not open because they had been sealed with ice. The room they were in was one that bore ice everywhere, even on the walls.There was something scary about all that.Clay felt his panic threatening to overide his senses and he tried taking deep breaths so he could calm down. It would all work out fine.All he had to do was disable the ice core right? Wrong.He could not disable the
Con stared at the information he had compiled on his screen and he wondered where he should head off to first.The information he had on Horizon was very sparse and there was no way for him to getmore n such a short time as this. The wokers in the home had helped him secure information on when and how the recent landings in Glover city had taken place.According to them all flights had landed at the airports except for one that had happened a few days ago. The air craft that had landed carried two people, one of them a person who had grown up on the island and who had recently disappeared from under their radar, while the other was someone who had come with that person.Jake Caswell had come to Glover city and there was no doubt he would soon start searching for them. There was also no doubt that he'd keep on making life a bit hellish for them and so he was someone they would have to watch out for. It was almost with a pang of pain that he remembered there was no more "we" or "us". H
Inside the Frost mansion Xavier woke up from his self induced nap and tried his best to adjust his sight to the luminance of his surroundings.Everything was bright, unusually bright and it was more out of the light than out of surprise that he was blinking. He could already tell something had changed in him. No one had to tell him that for him to know it. There were a number of changes he could already fee0l and amongst those was the fact that the ice core that had once been on the verge of collapse had somehow fixed itself back up and was now functioning without any problems.He could feel the vortex of ice within him revolving at the speed it had always revolved and right now it didn't feel like it had broken open and was now spilling frost energy into the world. It was a good feeling.A better feeling than he would have loved to admit, but it was a good feeling all the same. He had not felt this okay in ages now ever since he had gotten the core implanted into him, but he could a
Lisa could feel her heart slam into her chest the moment she heard the question. Her face turned red and she looked away, not because she was ashamed but because she was embarrassed."How the hell can you pop that kind of question on me so casually? Do I look like I have someone on my mind?""You look like you've been hella distracted and when girls are at your age they tend to think of boys twenty four seven. Can you see the reason for my curiosity now?"Lisa rolled her eyes and noticed how close she and Clay were. Closeness between the both of them had never bothered her, Clay was like a brother to her and she was like a sister to him, but he had grown these past few months and she wouldn't say she had failed to notice the changes in herself too. They had both grown a lot and somehow this kind of closeness made her extra aware of that.Everything around them was changing. Not just the climate or global warming, but mostly a lot of the other things, the more important things, the peo
Clay left Lisa in the room and descended to the lab beneath her to check for himself how her father was doing. Maybe it was because he had been there when the man collapsed or maybe because he had been just as scared when it had all happened, but he had a deep feeling of worry for Mr Frost. There wasn't much for him to do concerning the cure Lisa had administered to her father. She seemed sure of it and it seemed the cure had worked the way she said it would.The ice core had been repaired. By a bunch of black petals. It still surprised him as to how that happened but as long as Lisa's father was out of the danger zone then he would be happy. They were in enough confusion as things stood already and more confusion was not something he wanted for any of them. What he wanted at the moment was to confirm that Lisa's father was okay, and if he was then maybe he could ask if they could run a brain scan on Lisa. She had lapsed off into thought again and it was making him feel a bit scared.
"What exactly did Lisa put in to make your hair this color?"Xavier could see Jane was getting distracted already. Her eyes were gleaming as she fingered his lock of hair and he could already see the longing in her.Jane wanted to cut his hair and take it in to be studied. He could proudly say that he had taught Jane as much as he could in the art of detectiving in a science lab. He had taught her how to determine how long a piece of fabric would retain its color if dyed, what mixture of dyes to use and what colors seemed to have an affinity for each other. In part he was a fundamental aspect to the success of Jane's clothing brand and he had felt a bit disappointed when she had abandoned their lab meetings to focus on leading her company, but now he could see that the spark wasn't totally dead yet.She looked at his hair with a clinical eye, from a scientific point of view. Lisa was asleep and he had asked Clay to leave her so she could take the rest she needed. Lisa rarely slept
Lisa stared at her father and tried to assess the level of damage she had done.She had one hand over her mouth and the other helping her prop that arm up.'"When the heck did my father become ebony haired?""Language Lisa.Lisa rolled her eyes and walked over to go stand near Clay."We did this didn't we?"Clay couldn't help the chuckle that escaped his throat. Somehow he had imagined that Lisa would have more information than he would on what was happening to her father. She had asked him to promise that they would both take the fall for whatever happened and when this happened, he suspected she knew about it. No just knew about it but expected it. He would not have been surprised if Lisa expected this to happen, but it seems she had not. She was just as surprised as he was, or she was now a great actress and she was faking all this, but he could tell there was no talent for acting in Lisa so he was sure it was the first one.Lisa was shocked, the same way he had been and it was fu