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

the language it

Unlock magic and an entire language just appears

Precisely.

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

against the floor announces Sister Miriam's arrival before she even enters the room. Selene, who's been rolling around on the floor, suddenly sits up straight,

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

Sister Miriam is

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

Her red eyes lock onto mine.

not sure. Glancing at Vanessa and Marcus,

city at

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

she demands, her voice sharp with intensity. Then, as if catching

fingers twitch, and her eyes dart around the room as if searching for unseen

seen her

She knows something

rogue attacks on my pack, I explain, the words tumbling out in a rush. "And I can't get in

been watching our exchange instead of working on her papers. "What's going on?" she demands, her tone

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

the gnome. After a 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

of Sister Miriam's fingers, Layla vanishes the

air, I blink, startled

her every movement. She's

in danger. Why

me?" she asks, her

pack" he explains, gesturing to my husky. "But she'd need a way back into the city Sister Miriam's gaze falls on Selene, and I'm shocked

I've ever seen from her. For a long

Sister Miriam is

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

"Fine," she says, the word sounding as if it's been dragged out of

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

cement the foreboding in my

as she looks at Selene. The

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