GIDEON “EON, this is really good. It helps. Thank you again,” Chiara says, looking at what remains of her sandwich and concentrating on chewing.“Good, I’m glad it passed,” I reply.She seems relaxed. The color is back on her cheeks, and I can see she has let go of the blanket like she is warm, now.“Chiara… maybe you lost energy because you’ve helped me from my fever?”She looks up at me abruptly. And I know she has thought of it. “Maybe.”“So…” while I can still control myself. While my power is yet just watching instead of screaming… “What can you tell me about magick? I suppose this is the reason why you’re here?”I watch her take a deep breath. “Actually, it is the Council of Magickals that sent me. They… I was told that magickal power was felt here in the past week and they have a hunch that you don’t even know about your magickal abilities. I thought the same and I didn’t know how I can start telling you before you did it yourself. Thank you for that. You provided an opening fo

GIDEON “I THOUGHT I was going to die,” I continue. “He wants to kill me. when he sees that I’m awake, though, he stumbles back and begins to cry. He was begging… apologizing… and if he cared about me before, right at that moment it was just pure terror in there. He thinks I’m a spawn of the devil, but he knew I was a good kid. He knew I saved his son that day. And yet, he thought if he didn’t kill me first I’m going to kill his family.”She gulps. “You left?”“I ran away before morning,” I say. “I was scared… but they… he… was going to commit murder because he was more scared. It wasn’t the first time people got scared of me and I manage to avoid something like that situation before. But he’s… they’re especially kind than others before. I feel it was all my fault.“Since then, I couldn’t sleep in a house with others in there for a long while. I slept in abandoned houses, managed to slip my way here and there. Until I was collected back into the system again after a few months of livin

GIDEON NO one is hurt.There are a few barns that need mending and a few roofs a little battered. A tree did fall but away from the highway.No fatalities to humans and animals.I am grateful not just because of the fact, but also because it means I can go back to the mansion as quickly.I’m feeling feverish,I’m feeling emotionally unstable.I feel fine as I drive back home.When I arrive, she is still downstairs, sitting on the couch in front of the fireplace but she has magicked it back to its original spot.But she isn’t smiling.“Is everything okay?” she asks worriedly.“No one is hurt, minimal damage on properties that can be repaired quickly in the morning.”She looks relieved. “That’s good.”“Is there a problem? You look very serious when I got in,” I ask.She pats the spot beside her. “Yes, unfortunately. My mom called and so I have something new to tell you.”I sit down. “Something to worry about?” I ask.“Before I say anything, I just wanna make sure you are really on the s

CHIARA“HE did that, yes,” my mother replies as she walks towards us, a clue of her mirth still evident on her face. “And it’s very fascinating to watch someone else do it aside from our Head Elder.”She looks both fascinated and a little wary, her eyes taking in Gideon’s defensive pose as her eyes scanned us.I suddenly realize Eon is holding me against him as he stands behind me, and it happens because I have learned to trust him in the very short time we have met.And that isn’t like me.I am always so distrusting of people at first meetings, and my mother knows this because she is the one who taught me to be wary of others given the nature of our situation, as I live among the Mundanes.Later, I understood that as I am my mother’s daughter, which means I can be attacked anytime.Most importantly, my father can get hurt, too, since I live with him. She taught me to be careful from the moment I can be taught, and I took it to heart because of its significance to the only family I