Page 52 of Thrust into the Light

“I haven’t tried.”

“Wait, better yet, Kram, get over here! Let’s see if she can say your name! Farlen, this big oaf is my big brother Kramylor. He’s had Instructor Fry since he got here. They still can’t figure out his magic. Though between you and me, Kram knows what it is, just doesn’t want to change teachers. He thinks Fry is funny as shit.” The man in the room walks over so I can see him. He is tall, not as tall as Vashu, but maybe as tall as Rhi. He stops moving and I look over at Faith before I look at his face.

“Kramylor?” I ask Faith. She nods her head and looks over her shoulder at the man. I look back over at him just as he falls to his knees. He has blue hair and blue eyes like Faith, but his blue eyes I would know anywhere. I have seen them all my life. They have always brought me such peace, just like all the other eyes I’ve dreamed about. The little gold flakes in them seem to stand out against his skin.

Faith looks between me and him. She keeps doing it. Her mouth opens, and she makes a strange noise. I look over at her to see if she is okay. She is smiling and is moving her arms up and down and bouncing on my bed. My door opens and Rhi is standing there. His chest is moving fast, and he is looking around at everyone. He watches Faith for a minute, looks at me and looks up and down my body, then looks over at Kramylor. His eyebrow raises, and he looks back at me! My head falls backwards! This is so not fair! I want to do it too!

Faith stops jumping around and grabs my hands. “That’s why I felt so protective of you! You’re meant to be my sister! Oh, myGods! We are going to have so much fun together, and there is so much I get to teach you!” She starts jumping up and down again, but she’s holding my hands. I look over to Rhi and he is smiling at me. Faith looks behind her.

“Oh, by the way, she said she doesn’t feel comfortable telling me what happened to her, but she said you know and you’d tell me!”

Rhi does the eyebrow thing to her. She stops jumping and puts her hands on her side and does the eyebrow thing back to him! THAT IS NOT FAIR! HOW COME SHE CAN DO IT! I must have made a noise because Faith looks over to me and she does the eyebrow thing to me! Rhi starts laughing. I look over at Kramylor. He is still sitting on his knees on the floor.

“So, from what everyone has told me, it seems like it is just a misunderstanding. When Connor and Xander heard Farlen ask Vashu to stop, they thought the worst, and came out to see her laid out on the table and one leg in the air, with Vashu between her legs and bent over her. Xander tried to get him off her and then she had a panic attack, from what Healer Daniel has said. Well, come on out, everyone. I guess we have a lot to talk about. Go ahead, you two. I just want to talk to Farlen for a second.” Faith grabs Kramylor by the hand and drags him from my room. He is still staring at me.

“Are you sure you want her to know all this gorgeous? And looks like we are going to have another match at the table soon. Before we tell them anything, though, we need to make sure that Kramylor is a match. He’ll have to have his blood tested against yours and show us the results. Then they can both come back over and I will tell them everything if you’re sure that’s what you want?”

“Yes. Please tell her I can’t. I can still feel the hands on my throat.”

He grabs me and gives me a big hug.

“No one can hurt you now, Farlen. We are all here. They will have to get through all of us first, and have you seen how big Vashu is? It would take a mountain to get past him. Rememberwhat I said if you have bad dreams? Come get me and I will hold you while you sleep and keep you safe.” I hug him back. “Now, why don’t you come out and see what Vashu and Xander picked up for dinner?” I smile at him, and he grabs my hand and pulls me from my room.

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Kramylor

Holy fuck. My match is Instructor Fry’s match? I’ve heard so many rumors around school about her. People say the scars on her are all self-inflicted, just like she did that one day. Instructor Fry says that she was attacked. She doesn’t act like some women who do all kinds of crazy shit for attention. Most of them would fucking hurry and spill everything just to get some attention. She doesn’t want to say anything. Gods, the way she was reacting when we came in. I can still feel the way her body was trembling when I picked her up. Fucking Faith has all but adopted her as a sister already, and the little squirt spilled my secret. Shit.

If I hadn’t come with Faith, because she dragged me here with her. I would have never known. It’s not like I’m going out of my way to find my match. I get the appeal of it and all, but just wasn’t going to lose my mind trying to find her. Now that I have though, I don’t know what to do. There’s no relationship I have to end, because all the girls here are so fucking full of themselves it’s a major turnoff.

Does she need five of us? I mean fuck, the big dude is probably more like three people. I felt the pull and the draw to her, just like my dad said I would when I found her. I just don’t know what to do about it. Fuck, maybe if I knew more about her, it would help make this decision easier?

I sit down at their table and Faith sits down next to me, glaring at the men on the other side of it. Yeah, maybe hearing more about all of this will help. The one with the glasses keepslooking over at me. Yeah dude, guess I’m number five, though. I’m still not sure how I feel about it. I look over at her other matches; I don’t really know much about them; they are shifters and are a semester behind me, but that’s pretty much it. I know Instructor Fry because I’ve been in his class the four semesters I’ve been here. Dude is fucking ruthless when he wants to be, and so many of my classmates dream about him murdering them in their sleep if they can’t access their magic. Shit is funny. So I’ve stayed there, pretended I couldn’t feel my magic and couldn’t find it. I know he can see some of it, but I try to keep it lighter, like I’m feeding on some happier dreams, and other times I let it go dark. Just to keep him on his toes.

He walks out, pulling Farlen behind him. I thought Faith was the smallest girl in the entire fucking world, but no, of course my match is. I wonder what her parents were to make her that small? Mom’s a pixie, and Faith’s dad is a wraith, and she took after him in the race department. She obviously got Mom's height, but even Mom is taller than Faith. My dad is a demon, hence where my race comes from. So who are Farlen's parents, and which one did she take after?

Fry sets her down next to him and all her guys start putting food on a plate and pass it to her. That’s all they are going to give her? Fucking Faith eats three times that amount. Faith is glaring at all of them again. She’s going to have these guys chasing their tails soon. She may be little, but holy fuck, you don’t want to be on her bad side. One time when we were little, I went into her room and hid all her makeup. That was the biggest mistake I’ve ever made. She found them, and for the next fucking year, every time I woke up, I had to clean makeup off my face.

Farlen starts to eat and all her guys are looking at Faith. Well, at least they have some manners. Faith piles up a plate of food and starts to eat. Everyone else then starts getting a lot of food. All of Farlens' guys keep looking at her when she eats something. Glasses guy nods his head or shakes his head. Whatever, not my business, it could be, but I’m still not sure what I want to do. Farlen pushes her plate away from her, and it’s still half fuckingfull. Is that all she eats? No wonder she’s so fucking tiny. Faith said you could see her ribs and all of her spine when they were in class together. Is she starving herself? All her guys are smiling at her. She ate food, get a grip. It’s not like she brought back the dead. So I guess just another manipulative female, trying to get as many powerful men around her as she can. The glasses guy slams his fork down on the table and is glaring at me. The fuck is his problem? I roll my eyes at him.

Faith, never one to like the quiet starts talking while she is chewing the little fucking heathen. Mom still yells at her about it all the time.

“So, Farlen said Instructor Fry would tell me what happened to her. So start spilling the beans, man. I know you asked her if she said that and I already know what she said, so dish, man.”

Thanks sis, I was wondering if they were ever going to tell us.

“We will get to it soon, Faith,” Glasses’ guy says, “But before we tell Kramylor anything, he’s going to have to have his match blood work confirmed and then he’ll have to answer a single question from us.”

The fuck?

Faith looks over at me and shrugs. “Sure, it would be nice to have something to hold over the big oaf. So eat your food, dumbass, and get out of here!”

Little shit, she’s lucky I love her. Maybe she’ll tell me what they say later and then it will help me make my damn decision. If they aren’t going to tell me shit, no reason to stay here, I stand up and head to the door. I wonder if anyone is having any juicy dreams tonight I can feast on?

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Connor

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