Chapter Two
~ Sophie ~
I slumped down into my bed.
It had been a week since the attempt to open the cache.
It… hadn’t gone as planned.
I had been ripped away from the memory when it had only just started for some reason. Oralie had fingered that the reason was because the cache needed more than just a password.
But I wasn’t sure.
The memory was running smoothly until about ten seconds in.
Then it had suddenly blurred and stopped.
Like someone had hit the pause button.
I rubbed my temples, then sat up and tried to go up the stairs to the Leapmaster.
Halfway to the door, though, Sandor stepped out from the shadows and blocked it. “Move Sandor” I told him, trying to push him out of the way.
I was unsuccessful.
“As your Bodyguard, I must insist you stay home. You have tired yourself out with the cache, and you need rest” He told me.
I groaned and, once again, tried, (unsuccessful) to push him out of the way.
“I was just going to the healing center.” I grunted.
Sandor’s grip on the door frame loosened, and then he let go.
“Come on.” I grumbled, slipping through the tiny gap in between Sandor and the door. Just as I was climbing up the twisted staircase to the Leapmaster, my Imparter rang.
It was Mangate Leto.
“Get to the Watchward right now! Oralie found a way to open the cache!”
~ Iris ~
I swayed carefully but gracefully through the crowds of Mysterium, watching my every step.
Water pulled me down but I resisted.
This girl was a crazy powerful Hydrokinetic, and if I wanted to get to Slurps and Burps I needed to act cool.
I walked with the potstrer that I knew from experience would get me the least attention.
I walked with my chin held high, but my eyes scanned the ground, avoiding eye contact with other people.
Finally, I reached the store.
* * *
After I had picked a few things up, I started to walk back home.
I don’t really want to call it a home, but it’s the closest thing to it.
I turned down an ally, counted 49 windows, turned right, counted 49 windows, turned left, counted 49 windows, turned right, counted 49 windows, turned left- right, left, right, left, 5 times tell I got to the illusion that hid the tent that I had created.
I searched the crystal wall, grazing my hand along the blocks of crystle, feeling for a weak spot.
Something clicked, as my hands felt it, and I pushed the block, twisting it into place.
The thing about this wall is that the block that I need never stays in one place.
It moves after a person walks through the wall, and helps so no one finds us-I mean me. Once I had gotten the crystal block into place, I walked through the illusion, and appeared in an alley, filled with the stuff that I had…. Ummm…. collected, over the years. And…. a few million Lusters. I looked around, scanning the ally. I rolled my eyes, and walked over to set the bags of elixirs, energy slurps, and some disguise elixirs for Sean to drink if he ever needed to come into Mysterium with me.
“And….” I whispered, getting ready. “3…. 2…. 1!”
“AHHHH!!!”
I spun around, grabbing the attackers wrists, and summersalting backward, throwing him against the wall.
Right before he hit the wall, I waved my hands, and created a rope illusion that entangled with his feet, leaving him dangling upside down.
“I got you!” I sang.
“Owwww…. That hurt.” My brother, Sean, whined.
He reached up to untangle the rope, but instead, I guess he accidentally heated up his hands so they burned through the rope, and he fell onto his back.
I fell over laughing as he got up, and brushed off his tunic.
He glared at me. My hand covered my mouth, as I tried to smother my giggles, but failed miserably.
“How come I can’t ever get you?” He whined, probably trying to glare, but mostly looking like a pouting twelve year old, younger brother.
“Because I’m awesome.” I replied, walking away.
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