Secret War

Chapter 13

13

Adrian's POV

Yawning I returned to my normal living quarters of St. Vladimir's Academy. We'd been talking and planning so much that my head felt like it was going to split. But the time we spent talking it through was definitely worth the effort. From the amount of plans and escape routes we made, there was almost no way for us to get caught. We organised everything and thought about all the different ways in which it could go wrong then we'd think of a solution to get out of it. By the time we were done it was nearly dawn. My head had barely touched the pillow when I succumbed to sleep.

Opening my eyes I found myself back at the hillside by the sea where I saw the girl the first time. Anticipation rose when I thought of seeing her again. I began to step further into the field and took this chance to admire the scenery again. The different scents swirled around me but one captured me most. She was here, I could tell but I couldn't see. But considering how this was probably mainly her dream rather than mine, she could probably make herself invisible for all I knew.

"Aren't you that guy who was here last time?" an amused beckoning voice asked from above me. Her voice was slightly harsh but incredibly seductive. It reminded me of one of the times I saw Rose. Her voice was soft and it held a tinge of amusement at having caught me I supposed.

Looking up I found her lounging on a thick branch about half a meter above my head a few meters away from where I was standing. In her hand was a book and she had lowered it slightly she that she could see me over the top. Again I saw those tantalising eyes of hers but this time I was closer and therefore able to see them even clearer than last time. Despite the fact that she was blind in one eye, both eyes held life but there were clouds swirling in their depths. Searching slightly deeper beyond the clouds, I could see the pain and sadness hidden inside. I could only see that for a moment because when she blinked her eyes became guarded and held curiosity. When she spoke, my eyes immediately went to her plush pink lips; they looked so soft and captivating I wanted to capture them myself.

"Are you going to answer the question or am I going to have to kick you out of my head?" she lifted an eyebrow that scarily reminded me of Dimitri Belikov. The way she lifted it was so much like him it was disturbing. "Okay can you stop staring at me? It's kind of creeping me out. You're obviously a spirit user since you're in my dream. Want to tell me your name?"

"Adrian." I smiled up at her. "How do you know of spirit users?"

"I probably know more than you do about them," she rolled her eyes. "What I'm wondering is, what the hell you're doing in my head. I know for sure I've never met you before so it doesn't make any sense."

"Are you Shadow-Kissed?"

"Yeah hence you're in my head doofus. I guess you don't know much about spirit and its talents? Although I can't say that I'm a huge library of info about that either," she sighed.

"What's your name?"

She seemed to hesitate and after a few moments she replied, "Rai."

"Where are you? If you tell me I might have an idea whether or not I have met you before. Maybe it was just a brief meeting or a mere bump in the street. Have you ever been to the courts Rai?"

"Hell yeah, one too many times for comfort," she grimaced.

"Well then perhaps we have met once. I can see that you're a dhampir." I gestured at her neck and she smiled grimly.

"Former guardian actually."

"What do you mean? You don't look a day older than 14 so you cannot have graduated."