Chapter 34 Sage
We were all livid and Liam had his switchblade out.
Lola targeted him because she had a complete misunderstanding of how fertility gods worked.
Or how the birth control spell Professor Gefn taught on the first day worked.
Saffron said the other side of the school got taught the exact same spell the first day of their Arcane Magic class and the spell wasn’t just for the women.
Just because Lola didn’t do the spell didn’t mean the men she was going after weren’t protected.
“Hey, Lola was the only one who didn’t manage. Radames did the spell. It doesn’t make sense,” Khalid said.
“You can break the spell by digging up your jar and burning it,” Morgana said.
“You kind of have to because people want to start families and it’s the only way.
Professor Gefn wouldn’t check everyone was protected after everyone mastered the spell and she probably gave up on Lola when it was clear she just wasn’t going to do the lesson.
Liam should be able to check if he’s broken the spell jar just as easily as Professor Gefn can. ”
“I can see connections. I can see Lola and Radames are connected but I can’t really tell if either of them are fertile or not.”
“Weird because Lola has a black aura to me and Radames is golden like everyone else’s.”
“I also see a black aura around Lola, but that could just mean she’s sick or her energy is blocked. Radames’s is gray to the witches, but he acts like his aura is gray,” Morgana said.
Whatever that meant. Sometimes, Morgana explained and sometimes, she said things like we were all supposed to know.
“Can you tell the difference between the different connections? You’re connected to Khalid and me, but in a different way than you are to Sage. I’m sure there are groups where more than two people are together, but not everyone is together,” Lucian said, side-eyeing Iman and her men.
Because yeah, Iman was probably going to end up with all of them if she wanted, but Ari and Ivar were together before they got here, Alexios was bi, and then Adrian, who was pansexual like Liam.
And then there was Mazen, who had no problem with any of that, but clearly only had eyes for Iman.
Mazen was learning sign language to communicate with Ari, but Ivar still hadn’t forgiven him, even though Ari had.
Adrian had adopted Mazen, and Mazen and Ari were trying to help Adrian shift into his phoenix bird.
So, Lucian was correct to ask Liam to use them to figure out if he could sense different kinds of connections.
I didn’t know if it would help him sense if Radames broke his spell jar, but it was definitely a skill he needed.
Professor Gefn was scary, but I still liked her and she was on our side.
I had no doubt if Liam asked, she’d help him the same way she was helping Khalid and me with traversing the veil.
Luckily, Iman seemed overwhelmed with the attention because she hissed at people if she didn’t like what they were doing and I was pretty sure Liam staring that hard would bother her.
Iman could also half shift just her claws and I watched her take a swipe at someone who got in her personal space in the food line.
She’d have absolutely no problem mauling Liam.
“So, yeah, if I stare really hard, I can see a difference in the threads that connect them. It’s different if the feelings are romantic or just friendly. I basically don’t know why anyone wouldn’t be bi, but we can thank Mazen for being completely hetero because he was how I figured it out.”
“Some of us aren’t attracted to men,” Lucian said.
“You should at least let Sage put a pinky up your butt.”
“Liam,” I said, trying to corral him. “What about Lola and Radames? What kind of connection do they have in this life?”
Because that was the big question. Scorpia told us Apep turned Hemlock into an original because they were lovers, but we didn’t know what kind of connection they had in this life. They were never together and Lola was trying to get with half the campus.
“Well, I can only sense the connections when people are together. It’s like a string that connects them and, apparently, they glow differently depending on if it’s a romantic or platonic connection.
And the connection has to be nurtured. See Lena, that girl who is always half asleep?
I think she’s a sloth shifter, but anyway, now that she’s been hanging out with those two blokes and that lass, I can see their strings glowing much brighter than when I first started seeing them. ”
“The librarian said sloth shifters weren’t real when you asked for a book,” Lucian said.
“Shh,” Liam said, placing his hand over Lucian’s entire face. “Maybe someone mixed opium with the wrong mushroom, got weird under the full moon, and turned themselves into a sloth by accident. When they realized what they’d done, they ate a different mushroom to end it all.”
“Hey, Iman, didn’t you say Lola keeps that burner phone on her at all times?” Petros asked.
Iman looked slightly relieved to get the attention of five men off of her.
“Yes. She wears it strapped to her ankle under her trousers.”
Petros shrugged.
“If I stole it off of her, how long do you need to get the data off of it before I put it back?”
“Mate, I don’t know how you’ve stolen half my shit, but how are you going to get under her trousers and aren’t you worried Morgana is going to hex your dick for fishing up there?”
“Relax. I’ve got a plan, and it’s going to be immensely satisfying. It just won’t work unless you can get everything off her phone in the time it takes for one lesson.”
“But you aren’t in any of our classes,” I pointed out.
“A certain dingus owes us all a big favor, so that’s not a problem.”
“I had a tool that could do it, but they didn’t pack it when they kidnapped me.
Which I’m still mad about, by the way. I’ve been avoiding contacting my parents, but I suppose I’ll have to face them.
I hate people going through my things, but I can tell them exactly where it is so they can ship it.
I can get with Headmaster Mykene so a supernatural courier can pick it up. ”
“Good. Leave it to us and you’ll have the information on that phone,” Elliot said.
Elliot and Petros seemed to have this unspoken communication. I had no idea how they were going to get the phone, but we at least had some semblance of a plan.