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

is that possible? Unlock magic and an entire

Precisely.

few questions if he was here, but he's not, so I shelve them for now. It's a

rolling around on the floor, suddenly sits up straight, her posture prim and proper. I can't help but

quickly as Sister Miriam steps into view. I

Ava Sister Miriam

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 is some sort of

tone cool and polite. Her

at Vanessa and Marcus, whose faces are

the city

involuntary step forward, so intense that it steals my breath away for a moment as her eyes darken and her usual composure cracks, showing her

as if catching herself, she quickly adds, "I've heard nothing about any war, but that doesn't something isn't

twitch, and her eyes dart around the room

never seen her

She knows something

words tumbling out in a

on her papers.

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

few seconds, she must decide that she believes her, because she barks out orders. "Find out what's happening and see if Alpha Renard and his brood are still in the

Sister Miriam's fingers, Layla vanishes

un air, I blink,

her every movement. She's almost shaking with anger, but it makes no

danger.

asks, her voice tight.

connection with our pack" he explains, gesturing to my husky. "But she'd need a way back into the city Sister Miriam's

display of emotion I've ever seen from her. For a

Sister Miriam is

observes, like that isn't obvious. But it isn't at us. She has murderous intent toward someone,

out a long sigh. "Fine," she says, the word sounding as if it's been dragged out of her. "I'm

know," she demands. "Every detail, no matter how small. For attacks to occur without my knowledge means that someone is tampering in my information network. This is not a

foreboding in

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

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