Hey look who's back! Sorry for the slowness, I am not dead as you can see. Updates will probably take a long time until I finish my other story, Queen's Scars. Anyway, ENJOY! 😈

I conveniently know nothing

I wake up in the morning, dizzy and almost in a daze. I stumble down the stairs like a drunk or a child just learning to walk. I feel drunk too, with a splitting headache that rivals any other I've had. What happened yesterday? Everything feels like a blur. I force food into my mouth barely noticing what I'm eating. Then I realize. Oh my god. I'm being sent to the Calore house today! I can barely keep the tears from leaving my eyes. Why is this happening to me? I don't even understand. Everything from last night feels fuzzy.

Nothing is making any sense. I feel like I'm walking in a fog. I don't even know how I know I'm going to the Calores, since I barley remember yesterday. Even as I walk out my door and to Kilorn, the haze I'm in stays. Everything feels so wrong and so right at the same time.

"Mare? Earth to Mare Barrow?" I snap out of it long enough to grumble a hello to Kilorn. "Ooh, someone's grumpy today. Is it your morning coffee? I knew it had to much sugar. You need it straight black, like your soul," he teases, knowing fully well I never drink coffee. He keeps darting around with the energy and grace of a toddler. I normally would bite back, insult him, or do something, but I just feel too numb. Kilorn barely notices, humming about his fish and things like that, as we finally reach the school. When we make it in, Kilorn darts off, not feeling like being a punching bag for the Slivers this morning. I of course, normally do the same. But of course, today likes to mess with me, so I smack directly into Evangeline Samos. Just. My. Luck. I muster up enough energy to warm up my sassing muscles.

"Well, hello there Evangeline. How are you today? Horrible as usual, I presume?" Instead of immediately attacking me, as she normally would, her eyes narrow to metal slits and she lets out a little laugh.

"Keep that attitude up little girl, and we'll see how soon Professor Calore kicks you out." My first impulse is to be offended, but then I realize she knows. She knows about me going to the Calores. That begs the question, who else knows? Do my siblings? Do my parents? Do the Calore brothers? I guess there's only one way to find out.

It's looting time.