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

that possible? Unlock magic and an entire language just appears

Precisely.

shelve them for now.

heels against the floor announces Sister Miriam's arrival before she even enters the room. Selene, who's been rolling

fades quickly as Sister Miriam steps into view. I blink, taken

Sister Miriam

the vintage dresses I've grown accustomed 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

us, her tone cool and polite. Her red

I reveal? I'm not sure. Glancing at Vanessa and Marcus, whose faces are blank, I launch into

Miriam, is the city

step forward, so intense that it steals my breath away for a moment as

sharp with intensity. Then, as if catching

fingers twitch, and her eyes dart around the room

never seen

She knows something

words tumbling out in

Layla, who's been watching our exchange instead of working on her

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

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 city.

Miriam's fingers,

I

to me, tension radiating from her every

my pack in danger. Why is

asks, her voice tight. I'm sure there's

I can respond, Marcus steps forward. "Selene wants to run recon, try to establish a connection with our pack" he explains, gesturing to my husky. "But she'd need a way

ever seen from her. For a long moment, she Just glares at Selene, who

Sister Miriam is

isn't obvious. But it isn't at us.

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

detail, no matter how small. For attacks to occur without my knowledge means that someone is tampering in my information network.

grim words only cement the foreboding in

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

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