The Life Of A Franz Ferdinand Reference

19

"You think there's anyone around here?" Rowan asked.

We were driving aimlessly in a snowy forest. It seemed that nothing was inhabited by anyone, or at least that's what we all thought.

"Dude, it's so cold in here." Strawberry was mindlessly playing crossy road again.

"I don't feel anything." I shrugged.

"Well, yeah, you sorta control fire." Cassiopeia laughed.

"Only when I'm near it. This isn't normal."

"I noticed that when we were in the mountains. You didn't seem cold at all." Alex pointed out.

"Yeah, because Aehlocai had a fire going." I shrugged, looking out the window.

A few seconds of silence.

Seconds turned to minutes and all I could do was listen and observe, as I did usually. Strawberry was playing some game on her phone. Someone was typing furiously and I wonder if they were text ranting like I did to Strawberry last time there was an unexpected road trip with some very shady planning. Cass and Paul were scribbling violently on some notepad found on the ground. This left Alex and Bob to be the furious typers because Nick wasn't on his phone and was quietly sitting next to me. Usually when he's this quiet a blackout is coming soon. Rowan was driving, obviously.

"You think there's fire around here then?" Cass asked suddenly.

"I guess. Not too close though, my hands haven't heated up yet." I shrugged, trying not to summon any more heat to my general location.

"If your hands start to heat up I'm setting up the Portal Bombs." Cass said politely although she seemed just a tiny bit panicked.

//NICK//: ?

//GLASIE//: uhm why exactly are you texting me?

//NICK//: well I thought your hands would be heating up by now and idk I just

//GLASIE//: I don't know they might be heating up but I don't want Cass to throw a Portal Bomb especially since we've only been out here a couple hours

//NICK//: I will help u donot worry

//GLASIE//: it might be better tho, if I blow this jeep up I'll most likely blow up everyone in it considering its size

//NICK//: just tell me if it gets bad oki?

//GLASIE//: why do you care I'll just tell Cass and we can get this thing set up

//NICK//: bc I care about you

//GLASIE//: this is just cliche

//NICK//: if everything is cliche technically nothing is cliche

//GLASIE//: okay true

//NICK//: so I win?

//GLASIE//: sure go for it but next round I'll slay you more than you could ever imagine

Nick looked up at me. I smirked proudly. I felt some sort of heat coming from my hands.

"Cass... I think you should get the Portal Bomb set up." I tried to prevent my hands from heating up any further and potentially hurting someone.

"Hmm? Hands heating up?"

"Yeah." I didn't know what to do. If I didn't shoot fire at something, I could do serious damage to everything around me.

"Okay. I'll stop the car." Rowan slammed the brakes.

Cass pulled out the Portal Bombs and opened the door.