Cursed by the Gods

Chapter 6

I only had to clean and serve one table at breakfast, while Emmy took the table next to mine. Both tables had been—thankfully—filled with perfectly normal, sacred, spoiled, and slightly sadistic sols. Not the special demon-sols whose rooms I had cleaned. It felt like the five of them—who were all the way across the other side of the room—spent a lot of the morning whispering and looking over all the dwellers with suspicious eyes. Sometimes one of them would pull over a dweller who was serving and make them speak and looked at Rome who just shook his head.

I decided since it was getting boring just waiting tables that I would mess with their heads a little more. Emmy noticed the gleam in my eyes and followed my line of sight, her eyes widened and she grabbed hold of my arm.

"Don't do it, Riles, they find out and you're toast"

"Relax Emmy they don't know it's me and now that I look like this they won't suspect a thing" I reassured her a smirk working itself onto my face.

Giving her my plate I disappeared into the kitchens where it was full of people and opened the door to the freezer undetected.

I slipped inside shivering and said "Κρύψε με" I felt the magic wash over me and shivered again my whole body like ice. Ok, note to self-next time don't turn invisible in the freezer room. It's cold.

Pushing the door back open I slipped back into the dining hall and dodged people making my way to the Abcurse table. I placed a hand on Rome's shoulder and didn't bother to hide my laugh when he looked right through me.

"Ah my mystery dweller we were just talking about you," he said.

"Well you know what they say, speak of the devil and the devil shall appear. Now, what where you talking about me for? Surely there are more important things in your shiny sol lives that warrant conversation?"

"Trying to figure out a way to find out who you are," Siret said. Out of all of them who were only looking in my general direction, he was probably the closest to where I was standing.

"And how do you plan to do that exactly?" I asked intrigued.

Yael tried to open his mouth, no doubt to use his persuasion on me to force my identity out. Feeding energy into the air I made a bubble air around his head so that I wouldn't be able to hear what he was saying. He literally had his own personal bubble now.

"I'm sorry what was that? I couldn't quite hear you" I said smugly crossing my arms over my chest even though they couldn't see me.

"How are you doing that?" Coen asked looking at his brother in shock.

"Quite simple really, I just told him to shut up and low and behold he followed my orders" All of them stood up at once including Yael and I knew I was in for it. "Why do I get the feeling you guys don't follow the rules that often?" I said nervously backing away. The five of them brooding and dangerous was really putting me off.

"Let him out of the bubble" Coen ordered. A dweller right next to me shrieked in pain and my eyes bugged out of my head.

"Leave my fellow dwellers alone and I will" I replied.

"You first," he said sending out another wave of pain searching for me. But he wasn't going to find me before I even came out here I had my shields up for this exact reason. I knew how dangerous sols could be, especially powerful ones. I had learned the hard way.

Glancing over at Yael I waved my hand and the bubble popped. "There now stop hurting innocents" I growled.

The rest of the room had stopped what they were doing to watch the Abcurses stalk an invisible person. They must think these guys are crazy. Ha, bonus.