Chapter 10 Sage
Ivar and his goats were just about the only people I could stand in my care and feeding of familiars class. Adrian was glued to Ivar’s hip now, and they were kind of adorable. Sexual innuendo was flying everywhere.
I hadn’t noticed before, but Adrian kept Lola’s fan club sweet, but didn’t much like them.
I could tell now that I was around him when he was near people he did like.
Adrian already said most of the people he preferred warming his bed with were from the other side of the school, but some of the people in this class looked like Adrian slapped them and took a shit in their purse because he was laughing and flirting with Ivar.
“Uh, I don’t want to upset you but all those people that hate you, but finally look like they aren’t going to stab you in your sleep are looking stabby again because they think they own Adrian,” I said.
“Sorry, but I never went there with any of them. They act like we are still in secondary school. I don’t just want a root with someone pretty.
I want conversation while we snuggle. Maybe they will be more interesting when they mature, but right now, they are up Lola’s arse because they think she’s the most interesting person at this school and they can’t think for themselves. ”
Professor Medis was generally a calming presence every class except today.
They looked a little stern and angry with us.
My familiars were fine with it and just stayed perched on me, but it was upsetting Ivar’s goats.
And those things looked like they could kill anyone that pissed them off or Ivar asked them to.
Professor Medis being upset was upsetting me and I didn’t even know what was bothering them.
“So, only two of you have familiars with you in my class. It’s possible some of you don’t have one, but there are several of you who know who you are and your familiars haven’t deemed you worthy enough to show themselves.
This is not a good thing. Familiars aren’t pets.
They are magical guides. We can teach you magic, but some of the things that are intrinsic to you as a person are only going to come from your familiar. ”
Alexios’s hand shot up.
“Doesn’t Apollo have several? None of mine have shown up and I’m trying.”
“It’s because you hurt women,” Lola snapped.
We all ignored her, but I thought of something.
Lola would have had no way of knowing Alexios was Apollo because no one did.
Headmaster Mykene might have had guesses like she did with me, but no one knew for sure.
Lola had a very specific feeling about her because she carried void power, so it would have been easy for Apep to identify her because they’d felt it before.
So, why did Lola target them and why was she still lying?
Why had she gone after Liam like that? Their MO seemed to be murder, but they wouldn’t come at Ivar, Alexios, and Ari directly.
And Khalid had told me enough about Egyptian gods to know about Ra.
They weren’t scared of them because Alexios was associated with the sun. It was something else.
“Apollo is a little different. It’s the same with Artemis.
You don’t really have a familiar. You have several animals that are sacred to you and a bit of an affinity with animals.
Nowhere near as powerful as your twin, but it’s there.
The lessons you’ll learn in this class will help with that, but you won’t be taking my classes after the end of this semester.
There are other classes suited to the reincarnation of Apollo now that you know. ”
I was going to miss Alexios. I liked his dry sense of humor and we were vastly outnumbered in this class since Khalid, Liam, Lucian, and Ari weren’t in it. Since we all knew who we were, we were going to have a lot of classes that were different and I was okay with that.
Hopefully that meant fewer classes with some of the rest of these people as they figured out who they were.