MasukEMBER'S POV"there you are," Axel announced when he found me still on my hair, contemplating my life,"You were looking for me?""yeah. I said I'd come to watch you guys train. I stepped outside, but found the training ground empty, and wondered where you all went.""Well, we were there." I told hi
"good. Now come at me again, and this time around, use the element of surprise. I suppose we can make this lesson four."By noon, my body was different kinds of sore, and achy, and this time around, when Jean stretched out his hand toward me to help me up, I refused to take it, lest he make us go an
EMBER'S POV"Well now," I said and struggled against his hold."you're going to have to do better than that if you want to be free of me, Baby girl.""No fair, you had not even announced the beginning of the lesson." I wailed,"The same way that bear isn't always going to announce its attack. I'm s
And then I remembered and I groaned,“I forgot.” I sighed and rubbed at my eyes, before trying to sit up, “You can tell him to wait for me, I should be down soon.”I said and caught him looking at me uncertainly and I laughed,“You don’t believe that I’m up for real?”“I don’t believe you won’t go r
EMBER’s POV“They want you to wrestle a bear?” Jean asked looking just as shocked as I had felt when I heard the news and I nodded soberly,“They say it’s the only way for me to prove myself as being strong and worthy,” I said and took my seat on Jean’s couch.I had come to tell him what had befalle
EMBER's POV"wrestle a bear?" I asked in utter confusion, as I looked from my father to my brother and back to my father again, hoping one of them would tell me that it was all a joke. But they stayed looking so sober that I knew that this wasn't a joke of any sort.But they stayed, looking sober, a
"hell no." he said, dropping to the ground, so that we sat side by side, "I'm not feeling bad, so you don't have to feel bad.""Exactly," I said and laid my head on his shoulder.PARIS's POVI decided to go back to the cabin where I had caught the scent of the kidnapped attacker. Because as much as
"Well, I wouldn't put it past them either. But I can't pin any one of them with anything without having grounded evidence." I said and looked at the men, "I wish I could make one of them wake up and speak to me. But my guess is that they would be entirely incoherent. So why even bother?""anything i
Ember's POV"They are at the infirmary," Jean said when he parked his car in front of his porch I turned around looking for the said infirmary,"It's not around here. It's a bit of a walk. Down for a walk, or horseback?""Can we ride a horse? I asked somewhat excited, and he took my hand, an amused
I turned slowly to face him, and gave a small smile, "have you been looking for me?""me amongst others," he said and rested malevolently eyes on Paris. I didn't like Paris so much right then, but I was worried about him. My brother played a lot, but he was able to skillfully switch from clown to re







