Tangled

Chapter 240

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240 Ava: Sister Miriam is Angry

Chapter 30Magister Orion doesn't bat an eye when we tell him that we want to get in touch

with Sister Mirlam.

Two hours later, we're back in Sister Miriam's strange mansion, just outside of the Fae Ward.

We all try calling people again, but nothing but voicemails answer us.

Selene rolls against the cool floor, groaning in relief. So much easier to breathe here. Pity. I do like it there.

"Sorry." Watching her writhe around to soothe her itchy skin gives me something to do while we wait for Sister Miriam's arrival.

Layla is back, hunched over a pile of papers she dragged with her, marking through various papers with terrifying efficiency. I'm not even sure if she's reading what's on the pages. Just flip, sign, flip, flip, sign. Every so often she sets one to the side after writing REJECTED in large letters at the top of the

page.

"Their language is fascinating." Vanessa murmurs, also watching the gnome work.

"Language?" Startled, I glance at the healer. "She hasn't said a word."

Our whispers echo through the room. It's impossible for Layla not to hear everything we're saying, yet we continue to whisper.

"Her writing," she corrects me. "Those letters-you called them runes?-are so interesting. She writes them so quickly, but they're so intricate and detailed."

Glancing at the papers again, I squint my eyes.

It takes a while for me to realize that Layla is, in fact, writing in the strange language of theirs, and not in English.

That can't be possible. I'm reading everything she's writing with such case, as though it were already in English. How?

Affinity, Selene explains with a yawn. You've accessed your magic. You've gained an

of the language it

magic and an entire language

Precisely.

so I shelve them for now.

room. Selene, who's been rolling around on the floor, suddenly sits up

fades quickly as Sister Miriam steps into view. I

Sister Miriam

to seeing her in. Instead, she's wearing a loose shirt and jeans. It's so... normal. So un-Sister Miriam-like that for a moment, I wonder if this

greets us, her tone cool and polite. Her red

and Marcus, whose faces are blank, I launch into a

Miriam, is the city at war with

it steals my breath away for a moment as her eyes darken and her usual

you ask such a question?" she demands, her voice sharp with intensity. Then, as if catching herself, she quickly adds, "I've heard nothing

dart around the

never seen

She knows something

pack, I explain, the words tumbling out in a rush. "And I can't get in touch with

on her papers. "What's going on?" she

her feet, her small form quivering. "I don't

because she barks out orders. "Find out what's happening and see if Alpha Renard

Sister Miriam's fingers, Layla vanishes the

air, I

every movement. She's almost

pack in danger. Why

you call for me?" she asks, her voice tight. I'm sure there's a

our pack" he explains, gesturing to my husky. "But she'd need a way back into

I've ever seen from her. For a long

Sister Miriam is

like that isn't obvious. But it

if it's been dragged out of her. "I'm willing to travel with the... wolf. It shouldn't take long with

she demands. "Every detail, no matter how small. For attacks to occur without my knowledge means that someone is tampering

the foreboding in

the tense silence, her gaze softening slightly as she looks at Selene. The change in her demeanor

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