Tangled

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239 Ava: Radio Silence

The phone doesn't even ring anymore. It goes straight to voicemail.

Kellan's rings, but there's no answer.

Vester's rings, too. But he also doesn't answer.

In fact, we've tried everyone. No one's answering.

If we hadn't already had successful calls since being in the Fae Ward, I'd suspect that we can't call people. Instead....

"Something's wrong

Stating the obvious does nothing to ease the tension in my room. The thrill of success over me reaching my magic earlier is long gone, leaving us all staring at our phones.

Magister Orion was kind enough to send a folding table upstairs for us to use, and Marcus uses it to spread a few papers across its surface.

"I've summarized all the information we've learned since being in the Fae Ward, but it's very little. I think our best bet is to ask Magister Orion and Sister Miriam to see if they can use their resources to better source intel on what's going on outside the city."

The papers are a pathetic level of information..

Marcus had a few text messages from Jericho, stating that rogues were encroaching on Westwood territory. We have no news about Blackwood, but with Kellan and Vester's silence, it doesn't bode well. We know that the alpha of Whispering Pines has something to do with all of this, but we don't know if he's working with Renard or the vampires.

We have far more questions than answers, and frustration bubbles in my belly. Is this how Lucas. felt, when he searched for me after the Gala?

Experiencing it now, and remembering how I treated his presence once he found me...

My heart sinks.

to treat Lucas well. I would

reception.

soft voice interjects between my thoughts. You had

speaker as it rings Kellan's

thirty seconds before

Kellan. Leave

Short and sweet.

shoulder. "They might be mid-mission. It isn't unusual to turn our phones off or leave them home." But all of

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of Westwood is

"What about Delta Ryder?"

goes straight to voicemail, too. Since he was in Westwood with Lucas, it leans

I slide the papers back and forth over the table, reading them over and over. It isn't

messages written verbatim that came from Jericho, which somehow managed to

territory. Scouts going in. Whispering Pines defected from Council.

Blackwood and vampires. Keep

That's it.

Nothing else.

no messages, and only Vester's vague mentions of how the Council seems to

all, coming straight from my phone

It isn't enough.

to reach him again, I would have asked

So stupid to rely on future conversations during

Marcus. "We'll keep trying to reach people, but you need to focus on your magic and your learning" "Maybe Marcus can go back home and see if he

calm. "I am not leaving your side. It may seem safe here under Magister Orion's care, but this city

here. Even if they aren't in the Fae Ward, we don't know who's involved in

at my face with a groan. "One person isn't worth an entire pack. There are so many lives at stake here. If there's