wasn’t interested in distracting the witches by asking them to explain their process; I just wanted to see the result.
We needed to solve this Mortclaw problem, once and for all.
Derek
I t was a shock for all of us to discover Field’s true identity. I never could have imagined it in my wildest dreams. Yes, we’d suspected that the hunters had extracted some of River’s eggs, but this… What chance was there of this? It had to be one in a million.
All I could think was that fate was on our side. If it weren’t for Lawrence discovering Field and his four siblings, Grace would still be thrashing around on the hospital floor as a bloodsucking monster.
Sofia and I found out about Field after we had woken up and made our way to the hospital to check in on Grace. We found her and Lawrence, and she told us everything.
Now, I was hardly one to talk, given my history as a fire-spurting human… But, with the addition of Field, I couldn’t help but think that our family was only getting stranger and stranger.
I could only imagine what a shock this must be for River to go through. And for my son. He suddenly found himself a surrogate father to a young man he hadn’t even known existed a day ago. But I didn’t have any doubt that he would adjust to support River. Their relationship was as solid as Sofia’s and mine. They’d figure it out.
We stayed a while together in the hospital room before it was finally time to get down to business. Serious business. We had a mountain of work ahead of us, and we needed to start discussing order and strategy.
I called a meeting in the Great Dome. I made sure that Dr. Finnegan and the Hawks—or at least some of them—were invited to come, in addition to our regular council members. Everybody by now had already had ample opportunity to rest, so nobody should have an excuse not to attend.
Though, as the last of us piled into the building and took seats around the table, my brother was still noticeably absent. But if there was anybody who had an excuse for not attending, it was him. He deserved to miss out on whatever our next mission was after the trauma he had been through in The Dewglades.
Thus, I found myself sitting at the head of the table with Sofia at my side. We had many deep issues to discuss now, but there was one smaller nagging issue that I wanted to get out of the way first before we sank ourselves deeper.
“The babies,” I said, my eyes sweeping around my council. “We still haven’t figured out what we are going to do with them. They can’t live in the hospital forever. We have the ogres, the wolf cubs and then… those other things.” My eyes fell on Safi. “Do you have any idea what those gray babies are?”
The jinni shrugged. “None of us do,” she replied. “They are strange. Very strange. While the other babies cry and fuss, they hardly make a sound. Heck, they hardly even blink.”
Creepy things…
“We haven’t figured out what food they will eat yet either,” she went on. “They’ve rejected everything we’ve tried to feed them so far—food that the ogres and the cubs have happily lapped up.”
I inhaled through my nose. “All right,” I said. “Well, let us first turn our attention to the three cubs and the two ogres. I am hoping that Bella and Brett will agree to adopt the latter…” At this point, I couldn’t help but smirk internally. I was rather tempted to tie a ribbon around the more troublesome ogre baby, place him in a blanket-lined basket and leave him outside Lucas’s door. “One of us should go and ask the ogres. And as for the wolf cubs—what are your thoughts?”
There was a pause before Micah, who sat next to his wife Kira, spoke up. “We will adopt one of them.”
“Oh, good,” I said, pleasantly surprised.
The next one came even more quickly. From Saira. “I’ll take in one of the little snowflakes,” she said.
Saira loved children, so that wasn’t really a surprise.
I gazed around the room
We needed to solve this Mortclaw problem, once and for all.
Derek
I t was a shock for all of us to discover Field’s true identity. I never could have imagined it in my wildest dreams. Yes, we’d suspected that the hunters had extracted some of River’s eggs, but this… What chance was there of this? It had to be one in a million.
All I could think was that fate was on our side. If it weren’t for Lawrence discovering Field and his four siblings, Grace would still be thrashing around on the hospital floor as a bloodsucking monster.
Sofia and I found out about Field after we had woken up and made our way to the hospital to check in on Grace. We found her and Lawrence, and she told us everything.
Now, I was hardly one to talk, given my history as a fire-spurting human… But, with the addition of Field, I couldn’t help but think that our family was only getting stranger and stranger.
I could only imagine what a shock this must be for River to go through. And for my son. He suddenly found himself a surrogate father to a young man he hadn’t even known existed a day ago. But I didn’t have any doubt that he would adjust to support River. Their relationship was as solid as Sofia’s and mine. They’d figure it out.
We stayed a while together in the hospital room before it was finally time to get down to business. Serious business. We had a mountain of work ahead of us, and we needed to start discussing order and strategy.
I called a meeting in the Great Dome. I made sure that Dr. Finnegan and the Hawks—or at least some of them—were invited to come, in addition to our regular council members. Everybody by now had already had ample opportunity to rest, so nobody should have an excuse not to attend.
Though, as the last of us piled into the building and took seats around the table, my brother was still noticeably absent. But if there was anybody who had an excuse for not attending, it was him. He deserved to miss out on whatever our next mission was after the trauma he had been through in The Dewglades.
Thus, I found myself sitting at the head of the table with Sofia at my side. We had many deep issues to discuss now, but there was one smaller nagging issue that I wanted to get out of the way first before we sank ourselves deeper.
“The babies,” I said, my eyes sweeping around my council. “We still haven’t figured out what we are going to do with them. They can’t live in the hospital forever. We have the ogres, the wolf cubs and then… those other things.” My eyes fell on Safi. “Do you have any idea what those gray babies are?”
The jinni shrugged. “None of us do,” she replied. “They are strange. Very strange. While the other babies cry and fuss, they hardly make a sound. Heck, they hardly even blink.”
Creepy things…
“We haven’t figured out what food they will eat yet either,” she went on. “They’ve rejected everything we’ve tried to feed them so far—food that the ogres and the cubs have happily lapped up.”
I inhaled through my nose. “All right,” I said. “Well, let us first turn our attention to the three cubs and the two ogres. I am hoping that Bella and Brett will agree to adopt the latter…” At this point, I couldn’t help but smirk internally. I was rather tempted to tie a ribbon around the more troublesome ogre baby, place him in a blanket-lined basket and leave him outside Lucas’s door. “One of us should go and ask the ogres. And as for the wolf cubs—what are your thoughts?”
There was a pause before Micah, who sat next to his wife Kira, spoke up. “We will adopt one of them.”
“Oh, good,” I said, pleasantly surprised.
The next one came even more quickly. From Saira. “I’ll take in one of the little snowflakes,” she said.
Saira loved children, so that wasn’t really a surprise.
I gazed around the room
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