Game Of Lightning

Chapter Thirteen

Annie's POV-

I shut off the face timer thing as Damien says, "My dad told me something interesting."

"What did he say?" I ask him.

"He said that he knows some things about Didian, since he was born there."

"Maybe we could question him first and then go to the library," I say.

"Question my father?" he asks.

"Yeah."

"Why would we do that?"

"To get information," I say slowly.

"No. I trust my father," Damien says. "This is just like the time where you said it was alright to kill Mom. Well, it isn't alright."

"Damien," I say. "Didn't you hear what Ember said?" He shakes his head. "Queen Aria is poisoned. Aralynn did it and Aria only has five or so days to live."

"And? How does that have anything to do with Dad?"

"We have to find Nailea because if Ari and Aaron don't find the spell, Aria will die. Scarlet needs Nailea if Aria dies. And if your father has any information to help, so be it."

"What if he doesn't have anything to help us?" he shoots back.

"Then we go to the library, dummy," I say. "They obviously came here from Didian and might know a thing about the disappearance of Nailea."

"But they might not know anything either."

"Then we do some digging ourselves."

"I still don't agree with questioning my dad."

"Oh my gosh, why not?" I yell.

"He is my dad!"

"Everything okay in there?" Damien's father asks outside his room.

"Could you come in here?" I ask as Damien, "Yeah it is!"

The door opens and Mr. Miles comes in. "Is there a problem?" he asks while walking in.

"Yes," I say, glaring at Damien. "We have some questions."

Mr. Miles' face pales. "Did you guys do some . . . things?" he asks.

"No," I say. "We have some questions about Didian."

Color returns to his face, but not much. "What do you need to know about Didian?" he asks.

"We just want to ask some questions about Scarlet and what you knew about her," I say. "And if you know anything about a spell."

Finally Damien speaks up. "And about Nailea."

"Oh so you decide to interrogate your father now?" I ask him. All he does is glare at me.

Mr. Miles watches us, eyes wide. "Anyways," I say, "here's the first question. How did you meet Scarlet?"

He sits on Damien's bed and says, "I meet her when she ran away."

I nod. "How long did you live in Didian?" I ask him.

"For about twenty years before Scarlet and I came here," he says. 

"Do you know anything about a spell?" Damien asks. I raise my eyebrows at him. 

"There's tons of spells in Didian," Mr. Miles says, frowning. "Which one are you talking about?" 

"I don't really know," Damien says. "And did you know about Nailea?"

"Yes," Mr. Miles says. "Scarlet hated her for leaving."

"That's all the questions I can think about," I tell him. "Thank you Mr. Miles."