Chapter 42 Sage
Amira and Headmaster Mykene were deathly effective when they put their heads together. They hadn’t cracked the code in the text messages, but we did have a complete dossier of everything that went down in Egypt when Apep and Hemlock found each other again.
“So, I have an announcement,” Liam said.
We all looked at him expectantly because he could literally say anything.
“I’ve given up my quest to bring edibles to Ouroboros Academy.
Obviously, I still think people need it and Edward would stop having to pick his knickers out of his teeth if he was high, but like, at this point, it wouldn’t shock me if Headmaster Mykene knows what color my boxers are before I decide to put them on.
It took these women a day and a half to figure out exactly what Lola got up to in Egypt.
I’m not doing crime around smart women. I feel like I’m growing as a person since I got to university. ”
“Yes, you’re the epitome of maturity and upstanding living,” Lucian drawled. “Can we read the dossier?”
“It’s probably not as thrilling as a possum shifter, but I’ll allow it.”
We’d all been sent an email instead of just Lucian, who was usually the one emailing and texting with Headmaster Mykene even though I was the one working in her office. I read the possum book after Liam and it was great, but this was completely different.
This was a story about how two ancient evils came together again in their new life and decided to go on a killing spree.
It, apparently, started when Lola signed up for an exchange program in high school. She went to Egypt to stay with Radames’s family and Radames’s older brother went to England to stay with Lola’s family.
It was supposed to be an immersive experience where she learned about Egyptian culture and learned Arabic.
She was the same age as a teenage boy in the house, so he was made responsible for showing her around.
Apparently, Lola wanted to see everything and Radames made sure she could, even if it wasn’t quite legal.
The Egyptian school wasn’t the only place they got caught trespassing.
Radames’s father wanted to ship her back because he thought she was corrupting his other son, but that would mean the son he sent to England would have to come back. He had plans for his sons. Radames was meant for the church and he wanted to place the other son in politics.
I didn’t know how much the human government knew about supernatural cities and magic schools. Amira said the board didn’t look into it further when they were found in the school, but the human Egyptian authorities were paying attention when the two of them got caught.
They started trying to break into monuments that were inaccessible to the public and the Egyptian government really took notice.
They took trespassing seriously in Egypt, but didn’t put Lola and Radames in jail because of their age.
They were both given some pretty steep fines and Lola was kicked out of Egypt and banned from the country.
So, they didn’t separate because they wanted to.
They were forced apart because they broke the law.
Amira put in her report that Radames was stuck in Egypt until his massive fine was paid.
If the Egyptian school had been open, Radames would have just been taken there and given a job to pay for both his tuition and his fine.
But since the Egyptian school was closed, and he needed to be at a school like this, his fine was paid so they could take him out of the country without causing trouble for his family and, apparently, money was given to his father, too, so he didn’t make too much of a stink that his son he had big plans for was missing.
His father was probably told what he needed to hear like Lucian’s parents were.
“So, I’m glad the Egyptian school is closed for repairs because I ended up here with Sage, but at the same time, all these students wouldn’t be dead if it had been open.”
“They’ve stopped, though,” I said. “Either Morgana’s binding made them regroup or they are focusing on healing. That’s the only class Lola seems to give a shit about. No one has a red aura. It’s like after Radames broke the binding, they stopped wanting to kill witches.”
“They don’t seem to want revenge for the witches binding them or Professor Thornheart turning Lola into a pig.
Like, I really want to know what it’s like to be a pig for a day, but I can imagine if someone didn’t want to be a pig, they might want some ‘Count of Monte Cristo’-level revenge for that,” Liam said.
“No, you’re right,” Khalid said. “Serial killers always have a pattern for picking victims. Liam picks rapists. We need to look at the people who are dead or missing and figure out why they picked them. I’m fairly certain Erica was just to manipulate Mazen and they couldn’t risk her being his mate since Set was immune to Apep’s gaze. ”
“On it,” Lucian said. “Headmaster Mykene said they don’t keep extensive dossiers on the supernatural part of the school since they already know about this place and apply. They don’t need to figure out how to kidnap them or whether they might be the reincarnation of a psychopath.”
It was a start. I didn’t use emojis, and I knew nothing about code breaking. But I could see if they were planning to kill again and, apparently, we could prevent it with enough foresight.