Blue:
“Whoa, whoa, whoa,” I said, putting my hand up. “You mean to tell me that you’ve been guarding me? My whole life?” Tabby merely nodded, holding a delicate-looking hand out to me.
“Someone had to.”
“Like a Guardian Angel?”
“Details, terms and conditions…what does it matter, Blue? I’m here now, you’re here now, and you need to know the truth!”
“You’ve been smoking something, quite clearly,” I told her, folding my arms firmly across my chest. She couldn’t really want me to believe this. Did she suddenly think that it was fine to just waltz back into my life after months of silence? I hadn’t heard from her since before the accident! Around the time that everything with Bruno had taken a more serious turn.
“No, that’s one human experience I shan’t be trying again,” Tabby mused. She smiled sweetly, suddenly resembling the Tabby I had come to call my best friend. “There’s a reason Bruno was drawn to you, Blue; it’s written in the stars.”
And she’d flipped.
It had to happen someday.
“A wolf and a human, forbidden love, coming together on the predicted tonight…it’s all very romantic! But we need to act fast.” Her tone turned serious, face darkening. “Inga is using Bruno to plot an uprising against the Wolf King. I’ve been trying to get back here for months but they’ve shut off all portals to Earth in an attempt to stop Inga recruiting wolves from here as well.”
Tabby stopped for breath, blue eyes glittering.
“You and Bruno need to come together. Come together, unite the wolves and stop Inga.”
The birds had fallen silent now, as though they were trying to listen in on the conversation. Good luck to them; I was probably following it less than they were. At the moment, I was still trying to process the fact that a second important person in my life had lied to me for that duration.
What the hell had happened to all the honest folks in the world? Had I just bypassed them and gone straight to Liars Anonymous?
I had been told so many things. So many things that I had never even thought about before Bruno’s human self had crashed into my life. And here I was, yet again, being told something utterly unbelievable. When was it going to stop? When the hell was I going to be able to move on with my life without any of this airy-fairy bullshit?
As soon as you’ve saved Bruno.
And once again I found myself believing the airy-fairy bullshit. A bubble of hope was suddenly forcing itself into the pit of my stomach, the thought of having Bruno back ricocheting through my like a stray bullet.
I could save him.
All wasn’t lost.
“Tabby, I-”
“I’m going to take you to the Realm, India Hart!” she exclaimed. “And I’m going to make sure that the stars aren’t wrong!” She flashed a wicked grin at me, swirling her fingers in an intricate motion. “Because, my dear, the stars are never wrong; only the fools who interpret them wrong.”
There was a bright flash of startlingly white light, and as I raised my arm to shield my eyes, I could feel heat radiating over my skin. The scream was rising up my throat before I could stop it but no sound came out. Instead, all I could hear was Tabby’s loud cackle, and the definite absence of woodland creatures.
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He Was A Dog When I Left, I Swear!
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