Page 14 of The Goddess is Angry
“Well, you might get caught on land away from water. What are you going to do?”
“Sing my way out of it!”
“Can you sing after you’ve fought your way to safety?Makeme let you stop running. Everyone, you’re running until the sirens can get me to let you quit.”
I was starting to get how Zion Skinner’s brain worked. Running was easy for me. I’d always done it. Oscar and I went running every day before breakfast. It wasn’t just because I was a lion, either. There were plenty of lazy lions. I just liked it because I always had a lot of energy. Zion wanted us running for dodgeball tryouts, but he made it a lesson.
The first people who complained were going to have to use their magic to fight him and get him to let us stop. We’d spent months fighting each other in controlled situations, but he stepped up the game. Zion got their heart rates up and was going to make them fight him.
Genius.
The sirens stopped to catch their breath so they could sing and Zion barked at them to keep going. They shot him a death glare, but I got it. If they were in a real fight, they weren’t going to be able to stop. They’d have to push through.
They finally did it. It was breathy and not as good as if they were singing at a moon orgy, but they sang their desire to stop running. Zion’s mental shields were strong, but they eventually cracked and he let everyone stop.
“Congratulations. You just survived being chased by a bear and getting him to stop.”
“But you weren’t chasing us, sir.”
“Pretend it was a fucking metaphor, you turnip. You were running until I let up. It’s not rocket science. I weep for the future. You’re dismissed. If you’re looking to try out for dodgeball, I’ll be running drills on the dodgeball field before dinner every night until tryouts to get you ready since some of you might be rusty since high school. I was also told to pass along the message from Professor Norwood that she’ll be running drills at the same time and cheerleading auditions will happen Saturday.”
This time, it was Matilda and several of the girls that started screaming. Cheerleaders were fucking badasses. They flung each other up in the air and did all kinds of stunts. I was glad Azren pulled some strings and got a squad. The dodgeball team could play without one, but there were several superb athletes in this school who weren’t good at dodgeball that now got to show off their skills.
I slung my arm around George’s shoulder and we started walking back to the dorms to shower.
“Why is your cousin calling when you are in class?”
“She’s probably seen something.”
I knew all about her cousins. I made it a point to learn the names of all of her family. So, it wasthatcousin. The one that saw the future.
“Yeah, you should definitely call her back.”
“Every time she gets a vision, it’s about my love life.”
I nipped her ear.
“She’s probably seen that I’m absolutely crazy about you. We all are.”
And her cousin had better not tell her a fucking thing different.
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Iwas sitting at dinner by myself again. It didn’t bother me at first, but now that I was friends with Oscar, I wished I could sit with him and his friends. George hadn’t joined them yet, but she would. So, I sat alone and was just content with the knowledge I found that box. I could feel it that it was my mom’s. It had to be.
I had my head down scrolling through social media while I ate my food. I felt the air stir as someone sat across from me. I looked up and smiled because I thought it was Oscar. I immediately frowned when it was George Bell sitting across from me.
“What the fuck do you want?” I demanded.
“Look, you don’t like me and I’m still not all that sure you didn’t murder that witch on the dodgeball field. Everyone says you didn’t and my cousin says I’m supposed to talk to you. She’s a seer, so I do what she says.”
I scoffed.
“There’s no such thing as seers. How do I knowyoudidn’t kill that witch? Maybe you were jealous.”
Was she serious right now? Her cousin? Really? That was the biggest load of bullshit I’d ever heard. Maybe she did murder that witch and now she was trying to frame me for it by spinning the Basilisk revenge angle. She was the one who came intomypersonal space and interrupted my dinner, but she had the nerve to look irritated with me.
“Okay, so Ihatename dropping my family, and fuck you for making me, but my uncle is Loki. Loki made seers when Odin and everyone else was hunting him down for arranging Baldur’s murder to get back at them for killing his kids. The seers told Loki that Odin was going to catch him no matter what he did and when it was coming, so Loki put the seers in another dimension. That’s whyyoudon’t know they exist. Hell has demons that can train on that kind of thing, but aren’t like my Uncle Bjorn.
