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This place is truly stunning; it's like a maze of books, and you could easily and happily, in my case, get lost in here. The thing that makes this place of dark wood shelves and intricately carved ceilings even more magical is, well, the magic. You can feel it buzzing through the room, coming from the books, the various artifacts that they have in spelled cases, and the actual shelves themselves. This place doesn’t really need a librarian; it knows what you’re looking for and gives it to you. The librarian is more there to make sure the library itself doesn’t misbehave.
I heard that once someone disrespected it in some way, and it clonked him on the head with a book. I thought it was hilarious and well deserved personally, but now, because of that they keep someone here at all times so that it doesn’t misbehave.
It's one of my favorite parts of the school, even though I’m yet to explore it properly, despite how long we’ve been here.
“Cole, are you sure you know where you’re going?” Erin asks, and I tune back into the conversation.
“Yeah, I found them by accident the first time, and they’re way back in the maze of the library,” Cole explains.
“Huh, almost like they’re trying to keep our existence as just part of history,” I mutter.
“Well, until you came along, there were very few left, and then you found all the ones the Order had kidnapped, and the Fae Realm is full of them again,” Erin replies with a smile. “Just in case that came across wrong, I am very glad that you came along.”
“But those supernaturals that were the strongest and enjoyed the perks that came with that, with us gone, are now mad as hell because the Centres, who have always been known to be some of the strongest supernaturals around, are back,” Cole points out sounding somewhat absent-minded as we reach another split in the shelves and he looks from side to side with a slight frown.
“You may be onto something there. Maybe the school is trying to get rid of us because they’re afraid of how strong we’ll be,” Erin suggests.
I’m about to agree with her when my magic stirs, “That doesn’t ring entirely true, although I do think that the school is trying to make at least the students feel that way about us.”
“Yeah, they’re kind of like the teachers in that they aren’t as friendly as they were before, not that they were overly friendly, but better than the total avoidance that we get now,” Cole agrees with a frown.
“I wonder why it’s taken us so long to really see it?” I ask.
“I know,” Erin replies, her fingers running over the spines of the books and a slight smile on her face. “I think it's just very gradually gotten worse. I mean, it wasn’t like you turned up, and then everything immediately went to shit.”
“It happened so gradually that we didn’t notice until it got extreme,” I reply.
“Erm, guys, speaking of not noticing something until it’s obvious, where the fuck are we?” Cole asks a thread of panic in his voice.
I immediately start looking around and find myself confused at what I’m seeing. What the fuck. The library is nowhere in sight. In fact, there aren’t even any books in sight. We appear to be in some sort of tunnel. The roof is stone, along with the curved walls and flat floor. I have no idea where we are; I haven’t been here before, and from the giant cobwebs all around, no one else has been either.
“I don’t understand,” Erin mutters as she looks around too.
Behind us and in front of us is just tunnel. There’s not even a vague sign of the library.
“Maybe we walked through a secret door somehow?” I suggest, somewhat hesitantly, because this is weird as hell.
“I don’t remember opening a door,” Cole says, “I think that’s something that I would have remembered doing.”
“Just help me check the walls,” I reply.
We all spread out and press different parts of the wall, I’d be worried that we look like we’ve lost our minds, but there’s no one fucking here to see it anyway.
“Okay, I think it’s safe to say that we were not brought here through some sort of secret door.” Erin sighs.
“Well, what the fuck do we do now?” Cole asks with a frown.
“Get in contact with our men and hope they can follow the same path and remember how they got here so we can get out,” I suggest.
They both nod and fall silent.
I focus on my Bond Lines and try to talk through them, only to hit a brick wall. The lines are still there, but I cannot get through to my men at all. I feel my anxiety rise, and with it, that Darkness that hides underneath my magic starts to stir, becoming restless as it senses my fear. It’s not the fear of not being able to get to the guys; it’s the fear of not knowing if they’re okay or not. That is what is making me panic.
“Whoa, Sage,” I hear Erin exclaim and open my eyes, only to find her shorter than she should be.
“You're floating,” Cole points out the obvious and then adds, “take a deep breath, and gently lower yourself to the floor.”
I do as he says, taking deep and slow breaths until all parts of my magic are calm again, even though I’m on edge.
