March 25, 2002 – 17:15He found the audio settings and turned the sound on.“The room reeks of turmeric,” said Eva after she shifted back.Coralis kneeled next to the patient, placed her left hand on her chest and stared down into her eyes. She searched for her wolf.“The spell is stronger than last year. Her wolf is completely feral and unhinged, the connection between human and wolf is all destroyed, but I should be able to reverse it once the summoning spell is out of her system.”“We caught the fay who did this last year.”“We’re dealing with a different one, a stronger one.”A yellow glow could be seen coming out of Coralis, and A fell asleep. Jessica approached the patient with a second syringe filled with a sedative and injected it.“For good measure.”“Won’t hurt. I managed to override the spell, but I don’t know how long it will take for the fay to regain control.”Emma passed the chains around A’s wrists and ankles. They stepped away from the bed and walked out of the room.
March 25, 2002 – 19:50“Not yet, I don’t think so. I don’t know if the guy they fought against was the one trying to summon the wolves. They still need to drain the summoning spell out of the patients and fix their connection to their wolves. They’ll fetch us when it’s safe enough for us. As for the mighty monster juice, it’s something we usually give to werewolves who were grievously injured to force a shift and stimulate healing, but she’s not a werewolf, I’m not sure how it works on elementals.”“You know, we may not have been closed in recent years, not until you began dating Sebastian, but if you would have been under some kind of controlling spell, I would have been able to tell, I’m sure. I don’t like being locked up in here, especially not when my girlfriend doesn’t seem okay, but with what I saw tonight here, it kind of proves to me that neither Coralis nor Sebastian is dangerous to us and that we can trust them.”“Agreed. Same for me. If you would have acted any different or
April 16, 2002 – 14:30Molly Hudson sat next to her sister. Lizzy insisted she comes, as there was something she wanted to show her. She stared at a blank sheet of paper and flipped it from one side to the other.“There is absolutely nothing on it,” said Molly.“That’s the thing. Now look,” said Lizzy.She handed the blank paper to Audrey, who sat on a single seater next to her mother. Blank ink appeared. Audrey got up and sat on the armrest next to her aunt so that she could read the letter.Dear Audrey Hudson,It is with great pride that we are confirming your admission to the prestigious Winisk Elemental School. In exactly three months, you shall receive the list of books and supplies that you will need. If you have questions, you may send us a fire bird and we will promptly respond to you.“What’s this place? And words only appear when you touch the letter?” said Molly, looking at her niece.“Yes. If I stop touching it,” said Audrey while depositing it on the coffee table in fro
April 16, 2002 – 16:00“It is what it is. We have about an hour before we have to leave again for the game. Honestly, I’m starting to truly understand how you felt when you decided to tell Frank the truth about us. Stephanie already knew about me when we met, so I never had to do that.”“If you’re full-blooded, but grew up in group homes and orphanages… how did you find out? Did you receive a letter like that?” said Frank looking at Coralis when she stood by the invisible door, about to take it down.She stopped her movement, but kept staring at the door.“Two agents came to visit me and my cousin.”“You have a cousin?”“Had.”Coralis took down the invisible door and returned to the living room, followed by the men. She stopped in the middle of the living room and looked at Frank’s family. Frank stayed by the doorway, leaning on it. Sebastian stood close to Coralis. She took a deep breath.“I do not have much time, so I’ll try to quickly rip the bandage off, so we can answer as many q
April 20, 2002 – 14:00Vectan Iridian and Roberto Swanson stood on Lizzy Hudson’s front porch. It was a Saturday afternoon. Before ringing the doorbell, they took the time to walk around the duplex, trying to sense any elemental energy signature lingering around.“I’m not getting any read, not even a lingering signature,” said Vectan.“Me neither, so the signalment has ground. Humans live here, with the likelihood of a young female elemental who hasn’t come into her power yet, and probably had no prior knowledge of what we are,” said Roberto.He pressed on the doorbell and Lizzy opened the door a minute later. She let them in and the agents introduced themselves. Vectan and Roberto looked around and saw another human female and a young elemental.“I am Lizzy Hudson, and uh, this is Molly, my sister. I showed her the letter and well, she was here when Coralis and Sebastian explained to us what it was, so I asked her to be here today. Is that okay?”“The caller mentioned having to do a
April 20, 2002 – 15:15The women all looked at each other and they headed back to the living room.“Given the circumstances, I’ll admit, we couldn’t have picked a better elemental guardian for you. If the father tries something shady, he will quickly live to regret it,” said Roberto.“I remember well the night I got attacked by thieves, I didn’t stay to watch her fight, but she did jump in against four guys, two ambulances were needed, and only one escaped. I knew she was skilled… and my daughter saw her a couple of times at work… but you sound like you know both of them very well… and what about Sebastian?” said Molly.“Coralis Golmar is a full-blooded mage. Like Ms. Audrey Hudson, she grew up among humans. I remember meeting her at a group home in Montreal, with her cousin Nadilla de Lima, 12 years ago. Sebastian Larameer is also a full-blooded mage. The sport you mentioned, flyball, is extremely popular among mages and both of them play on the national team. They are very well know
June 30, 2002Frank taped up the last box and placed it on a pile of boxes beside his door. He didn’t have much to move, most of his belongings were still at his mother’s apartment. He had packed the majority of the stuff he had at his dorm during the week, but there were still a couple of items left to pack.He heard the door buzzer and got up to answer it.“It’s me,” said Carlos.He let him in.“I just got done packing, Mark should be here soon with the truck.”“You don’t have a lot of boxes and most of the furniture belongs to the dorm, are you going to be able to fill an apartment? It’s not furnished, right?”“I’ve got a lot more stuff to grab at my mom, but no furniture to pick up there. We will pick up a bed, a dresser and some boxes at Coralis’. She’s in Korea at the moment, but Victoria will be there to help us. As for the fridge, stove and washing machines, Coralis has arranged for delivery and I’ll receive them in 2 days. We will see about the rest when she gets back in town
July 5, 2002 – 22:15Coralis hovered above the coordinates of the address sent by Frank. She had written down the address of their new place before she left for Asia and converted it into coordinates through the satellite function on her hologram. It was late evening.Before heading to her new address, on her way back from India, she made a stop at an electronic store run by a werewolf. There, she bought a burner phone and had it arranged so that she could push the call into her hologram, when in satellite mode, and make the call made to and from it untraceable. She needed him to be able to reach out to her if he ever was in trouble, or saw trouble.Anna, the werewolf who served her, was from Emma’s pack. She knew exactly who she was. Her mate and husband was one of the werewolves Coralis fixed the connection between human and wolf. From the moment her mate came back home, Anna swore to herself that she’d do anything she could to serve that elemental if she ever needed anything. When
January 4, 2004 – 15:00Coralis got out of the taxi and looked at the house standing in front of her. Frank wanted to come, but he had an event to cover and couldn’t find a replacement. Part of her didn’t want to be there and wanted to call a taxi to go back home, but she knew she couldn’t. It was time for her to meet Dawn, her dad’s sister.She took a deep breath and walked to the door, hoping it wouldn’t get emotional, not like it did when she met with Dorothy for the first time. She rang the doorbell. No answer. She rang it again, thinking that if she had to ring it a third time, she would leave.A few minutes later, a small woman opened the door. She looked like her, but shorter. Coralis wanted to remove her binds to see if it was true that her aunt lost all of her elemental powers, but decided against it, especially not in the open like that. She could only hope that she was walking into friendly territory, that she didn’t have a foe waiting for her behind the door.“I wish I cou
January 1, 2004Coralis sat in a church between Frank and Audrey, listening to the pastor perform the wedding ceremony. Part of her wanted to sit next to her flyball team members, who sat near the back of the church on the groom’s side, or next to Erik and Henry, who sat behind her team, but she knew that her place was on the bride’s side, with the family who was also about to become hers.She didn’t want to think about her own upcoming wedding and was happy that this day was all about Sebastian and Stephanie. She was merely there as a witness and spectator. She wanted to forget about everything else, and merely be a woman watching her friends getting married, but she couldn’t stop herself from worrying about what could happen.She knew that High Mage Finnas was sitting at the back of the church, but she didn’t want to look in his direction so it wouldn’t raise suspicions. Thankfully, the majority of the people in attendance knew about the supernatural. Stephanie’s coworkers were were
December 24, 2003 – 19:00“Sally has been killed?” said Sebastian.Samantha nodded and answered Linda’s question. Frank looked at his sister. He knew she was also worried. The doorbell rang and he jumped. Louis went upstairs to answer, followed by Lizzy.“Congratulations!” said Louis as he let Coralis and Audrey in. “We saw on the news. The UK is no longer hunting you down.”“And no longer stuck on house arrest in London,” said Lizzy as she hugged her daughter.“I told you so!” said Sebastian as Coralis walked down the stairs to meet with the others.“Don’t get too comfortable, we’ll be moving to the kitchen to eat,” said Linda as Coralis gave a confused look to Sebastian.Sebastian told her the discussion they had before she and Audrey arrived as Frank led her to the kitchen, his hand on her lower back.“By the way, Sebastian, Emery is now a wanted witch. He was 49th when I checked the lists after talking to MI6.“Frank mentioned something about names when I started calling you Blue,
December 24, 2003 – 16:30Louis handed Frank a drink after Linda collected their winter coats.“I remember that night she took down your former leader. I heard a lot about him, but nothing good,” said Stephanie.“Took down former leader? Is it the duel you mentioned last year when we were trying to get Audrey back?” said Louis, looking at Stephanie.Stephanie nodded to her uncle.“Frank us that you’re close to Coralis, are you like her?” said Molly.“Coralis? Ah yes, I keep forgetting she’s known under a different name. I’m not exactly like her. I’m a werepanther, a different type of lycanthrope,” said Samantha, following Frank to the basement.“I remember seeing her transforming into a panther the night she killed Dwayne,” said Lizzy.“Some mages learn to transform into an animal of their choice. Blue can transform into a black panther,” said Sebastian, leaning on the chair Stephanie sat on.“She looked like a black cat when she came back from that house with that Veronica girl,” sai
December 24, 2003 – 06:00Coralis was making coffee when Samantha woke up.“Good morning, Samantha! You’re up early.”“I couldn’t sleep. Are you sure it’s fine if I come with you guys tonight?”“Yeah, if they told us you’re welcome to come, then you are welcome. They’re very nice people, and they know about us. Well, they know about me and Sebastian, Stephanie knows about you, they won’t mind what you are.”“If they know I’m not human and still want me to come, I think that’s already more than I can hope for.”“Think about it, I rank 11th on the global list of witches to kill on sight and they still want me to marry into their family. What does that tell you?”“All I need to know.”Twenty minutes later, while the girls were making breakfast, Frank woke up. It had only been 5 days since Coralis returned home after a long absence and to him, it still felt like it was the day before.“Considering the time it was when you got home last night, shouldn’t you still be sleeping?”Coralis jump
December 23, 2003 – 22:15“LIEUTENANT YOUMIS?” said Sebastian, looking at him. “Wasn’t he supposed to replace High Fay Zaaro?”“Yes. These abominations reek of his essence.”A few minutes later, Coralis got back on her feet and stepped out of the circle.“Lieutenant Youmis is exhausted. I don’t think he will regain control anytime soon,” said Coralis.“And you said vampire essence was in the mix?” said Eva.“The second time was already worse than the first time. And now this? Why here? Why our pack?” said Emma, as Emery walked back through the portal, followed by High Fay Ellya.“I don’t know why, but we will find out. That’s also why I didn’t want to kill the wolves. We know we can reverse it. Once the connection to their human counterpart is restored, we can question them,” said Coralis, looking at the time on her phone. “I should call my mate before he gets home and worries if I’m not there.”“Ellya, we need to send a unit to capture Lieutenant Youmis. Blue Thunder said he was exha
December 23, 2003 – 21:00 The Northerners were playing at home that night. When the game was over and she and Sebastian were about to take off to go home, Coralis received a call from Emma. She signalled Sebastian to wait and put the call on speakerphone. Emma was in a panic.“BLUE, can you come RIGHT NOW?”Sebastian suddenly got worried.“Where? What’s going on?”“Is Stephanie okay?”“Here at Red Crescent pack. Yes, Stephanie is fine. She left Healing Moon at 9 to go home. She’s not here.”Sebastian was relieved to hear that and swore that if Stephanie still wanted it, he’d complete their bond when he got home, even if he knew Coralis was probably right: the mark was a seal.“I’ll be on my way. I’m close by,” said Coralis, ending the call, and took off, Sebastian following her.“What do you think happens this time?” said Sebastian, as he was trying to keep up with her.“I don’t know, but I’m guessing she couldn’t reach out to anyone at the CMMA. Remember the last time they got a hol
December 20, 2003 – 00:15 (Scotland Time)Coralis closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She wanted to rip their eyes out and strangle them, but she knew these girls were humans, most likely heading to the same destination as she. She believed Frank when he said nothing ever happened with that actress, but she didn’t like these girls talking that way about her man.She was thankful to have her wrist binds so she wouldn’t break storefront windows by accident. Her eyeglasses only prevented her from using her eyes to direct her elemental energy and to camouflage their elemental colour but without her wrist binds, her elemental energy still leaked through her pores and she could still use her hands to direct it. She walked away and headed to the bar before she did anything to these girls and ended up in jail.Her flight landed in Montreal early morning. She had a game in Mexico in the evening but decided to skip practice time just so she could spend more time with Frank before she had to
December 19, 2003 – noon“There is still a hold on your name, right?” said Erik.“In Scotland? Why not in London?” said Henry.“Yes, but considering Blue Thunder is technically a citizen of England, she doesn’t have jurisdiction over me. I could still be walking into a trap, however, so I still made sure of that. Not sure why she wants to meet there, but I think it’s better there than in London. Even with a hold on my name, I’m not too keen on walking around the SIS headquarters. Taking my flight from Scotland instead sounds like a better idea anyway.”She tried to call Frank on her way to Scotland but got no response. She hoped he was still asleep and tried not to overthink it, but she was worried. As she was hovering above the meeting spot, Frank called her back.“That was you trying to call, right?” said Frank as soon as she answered.“Yeah, everything okay?”“Yes. I was in the shower. Wanted to take my phone in the bathroom just in case you’d call, but my scattered brain forgot it