Carina

Mel stayed frozen, only blinking in response at first before loosening her grip on Ainsley's arm and then dropping it completely. She also dropped her fierce concentration, and the image ...

So maybe Mel was a little lost. When the tunnel was forked, she didn't know which one to take, and it made her nervous that she could barely see in ...

Mel tried to wrap her mind with all this. Nikolai was info-dumping her information that related to his magic, but she was still trying to think about how it'd be ...

"Cooool," Elias said, trying to think this through. "Cool cool cool." ... How did that work? He wanted to know, but at the same time, he was positive that he ...

Evaline pouting like this was kind of adorable, and Elias wanted to tease her, but then decided against it since it would probably provoke her. Plus, it was more fun ...

Mel stared at the picture again, looking down at it to make sure it was the one. And it was. She was sure of it. She knew she had seen ...

Mel found herself glaring at Aumrauth as Ainsley seemed to sulk away from the insult. "You are so mean," she said cooly, then pulled away from the group as she ...

"Right," Elias said slowly, noticing that she didn't really answer his question. "But are you safe there?"

"The palace," Elias repeated in thought, then paused to make sure he didn't say anything stupid. "But is it really a home, though? Do you want to live there?"

Elias hummed in thought. "Magic," he thought out loud. "That's what kids say when they can't explain powers." He narrowed his eyes at Levi. He was being awfully suspicious. First ...

Naturally, Elias recoiled when Evaline seemed to blow up in his face. And naturally, his brain started to ask himself: oh man, what did he do this time? You said ...

And a lot of important people, both past and present, are secretly gifted. Those words resonated in Mel's head as Nikolai went on about his history and then started to ...

"At least I have magic," Mel retorted back as she continued to walk down the tunnel with the others. She felt like a child calling her powers magic, but it ...

If the others weren't around her, Mel would have stuck her tongue out at Aumrauth when he wasn't looking. She was beginning to realize that he was probably the sassiest ...

"Home," Elias repeated slowly, then turned to face her. "Do you have a home?"