March 25, 2002 – 17:15He found the audio settings and turned the sound on.“The room reeks of turmeric,” said Eva after she shifted back.Coralis kneeled next to the patient, placed her left hand on her chest and stared down into her eyes. She searched for her wolf.“The spell is stronger than last year. Her wolf is completely feral and unhinged, the connection between human and wolf is all destroyed, but I should be able to reverse it once the summoning spell is out of her system.”“We caught the fay who did this last year.”“We’re dealing with a different one, a stronger one.”A yellow glow could be seen coming out of Coralis, and A fell asleep. Jessica approached the patient with a second syringe filled with a sedative and injected it.“For good measure.”“Won’t hurt. I managed to override the spell, but I don’t know how long it will take for the fay to regain control.”Emma passed the chains around A’s wrists and ankles. They stepped away from the bed and walked out of the room.
March 25, 2002 – 19:50“Not yet, I don’t think so. I don’t know if the guy they fought against was the one trying to summon the wolves. They still need to drain the summoning spell out of the patients and fix their connection to their wolves. They’ll fetch us when it’s safe enough for us. As for the mighty monster juice, it’s something we usually give to werewolves who were grievously injured to force a shift and stimulate healing, but she’s not a werewolf, I’m not sure how it works on elementals.”“You know, we may not have been closed in recent years, not until you began dating Sebastian, but if you would have been under some kind of controlling spell, I would have been able to tell, I’m sure. I don’t like being locked up in here, especially not when my girlfriend doesn’t seem okay, but with what I saw tonight here, it kind of proves to me that neither Coralis nor Sebastian is dangerous to us and that we can trust them.”“Agreed. Same for me. If you would have acted any different or
April 16, 2002 – 14:30Molly Hudson sat next to her sister. Lizzy insisted she comes, as there was something she wanted to show her. She stared at a blank sheet of paper and flipped it from one side to the other.“There is absolutely nothing on it,” said Molly.“That’s the thing. Now look,” said Lizzy.She handed the blank paper to Audrey, who sat on a single seater next to her mother. Blank ink appeared. Audrey got up and sat on the armrest next to her aunt so that she could read the letter.Dear Audrey Hudson,It is with great pride that we are confirming your admission to the prestigious Winisk Elemental School. In exactly three months, you shall receive the list of books and supplies that you will need. If you have questions, you may send us a fire bird and we will promptly respond to you.“What’s this place? And words only appear when you touch the letter?” said Molly, looking at her niece.“Yes. If I stop touching it,” said Audrey while depositing it on the coffee table in fro
April 16, 2002 – 16:00“It is what it is. We have about an hour before we have to leave again for the game. Honestly, I’m starting to truly understand how you felt when you decided to tell Frank the truth about us. Stephanie already knew about me when we met, so I never had to do that.”“If you’re full-blooded, but grew up in group homes and orphanages… how did you find out? Did you receive a letter like that?” said Frank looking at Coralis when she stood by the invisible door, about to take it down.She stopped her movement, but kept staring at the door.“Two agents came to visit me and my cousin.”“You have a cousin?”“Had.”Coralis took down the invisible door and returned to the living room, followed by the men. She stopped in the middle of the living room and looked at Frank’s family. Frank stayed by the doorway, leaning on it. Sebastian stood close to Coralis. She took a deep breath.“I do not have much time, so I’ll try to quickly rip the bandage off, so we can answer as many q
April 20, 2002 – 14:00Vectan Iridian and Roberto Swanson stood on Lizzy Hudson’s front porch. It was a Saturday afternoon. Before ringing the doorbell, they took the time to walk around the duplex, trying to sense any elemental energy signature lingering around.“I’m not getting any read, not even a lingering signature,” said Vectan.“Me neither, so the signalment has ground. Humans live here, with the likelihood of a young female elemental who hasn’t come into her power yet, and probably had no prior knowledge of what we are,” said Roberto.He pressed on the doorbell and Lizzy opened the door a minute later. She let them in and the agents introduced themselves. Vectan and Roberto looked around and saw another human female and a young elemental.“I am Lizzy Hudson, and uh, this is Molly, my sister. I showed her the letter and well, she was here when Coralis and Sebastian explained to us what it was, so I asked her to be here today. Is that okay?”“The caller mentioned having to do a
April 20, 2002 – 15:15The women all looked at each other and they headed back to the living room.“Given the circumstances, I’ll admit, we couldn’t have picked a better elemental guardian for you. If the father tries something shady, he will quickly live to regret it,” said Roberto.“I remember well the night I got attacked by thieves, I didn’t stay to watch her fight, but she did jump in against four guys, two ambulances were needed, and only one escaped. I knew she was skilled… and my daughter saw her a couple of times at work… but you sound like you know both of them very well… and what about Sebastian?” said Molly.“Coralis Golmar is a full-blooded mage. Like Ms. Audrey Hudson, she grew up among humans. I remember meeting her at a group home in Montreal, with her cousin Nadilla de Lima, 12 years ago. Sebastian Larameer is also a full-blooded mage. The sport you mentioned, flyball, is extremely popular among mages and both of them play on the national team. They are very well know
June 30, 2002Frank taped up the last box and placed it on a pile of boxes beside his door. He didn’t have much to move, most of his belongings were still at his mother’s apartment. He had packed the majority of the stuff he had at his dorm during the week, but there were still a couple of items left to pack.He heard the door buzzer and got up to answer it.“It’s me,” said Carlos.He let him in.“I just got done packing, Mark should be here soon with the truck.”“You don’t have a lot of boxes and most of the furniture belongs to the dorm, are you going to be able to fill an apartment? It’s not furnished, right?”“I’ve got a lot more stuff to grab at my mom, but no furniture to pick up there. We will pick up a bed, a dresser and some boxes at Coralis’. She’s in Korea at the moment, but Victoria will be there to help us. As for the fridge, stove and washing machines, Coralis has arranged for delivery and I’ll receive them in 2 days. We will see about the rest when she gets back in town
July 5, 2002 – 22:15Coralis hovered above the coordinates of the address sent by Frank. She had written down the address of their new place before she left for Asia and converted it into coordinates through the satellite function on her hologram. It was late evening.Before heading to her new address, on her way back from India, she made a stop at an electronic store run by a werewolf. There, she bought a burner phone and had it arranged so that she could push the call into her hologram, when in satellite mode, and make the call made to and from it untraceable. She needed him to be able to reach out to her if he ever was in trouble, or saw trouble.Anna, the werewolf who served her, was from Emma’s pack. She knew exactly who she was. Her mate and husband was one of the werewolves Coralis fixed the connection between human and wolf. From the moment her mate came back home, Anna swore to herself that she’d do anything she could to serve that elemental if she ever needed anything. When
July 20, 2003Despite going to bed in the middle of the night following the celebrations of winning the Silver Cup, once again, Coralis woke up early. She hoped she wouldn’t get called by the EBEE to go on a case. She knew Frank would be working all day, so she agreed to meet with Panjik and Sonylla for training.Frank woke up while she was still busy making breakfast.“Morning luv!” he said while standing behind her kissing her neck with his hands on her waist.“Morning!” she said, turning her head to kiss him back on the mouth. “Breakfast is almost ready.”“Still wanna go train today? With the workload you’ve had for the past few months, I’d think you deserve a break,” said Frank as he filled his mug with coffee.Frank sat on a stool by the kitchen island.“Yes, I need to. Panjik wants to help me train my spirit magic and give additional fire magic training to Sonylla, and I won’t pass on that. I was supposed to go to London for hand combat and weapon training with the EBEE… but I’l
June 8, 2003 – 16:45They chuckled as they got deeper into the forest. The scent trail led them to a clearing and a hunter’s cabin at the back of it.They saw five goblins playing cards outside of the cabin. Coralis, Veronica and Eva stood behind the tree line and watched the goblins for a minute.“If the vampires involved don’t have a daylight bracelet, they won’t stick their nose outside. We each kill one goblin, tie up the other two and we then go into the cabin,” said Veronica.They bumped each other’s fists and walked toward the goblins. As soon as they saw the trio approaching, the goblins stood up, accidentally reversing the card table.Without stopping nor saying a word, Coralis and Veronica unsheathed their swords and Eva pulled out her knife. The goblins walked toward them.“What are you doing here? You aren’t supposed to be here,” said one of them.The women quickly beheaded three of his companions and Veronica got behind him, grabbed his wrists and pushed him down. Coralis
June 8, 2003 – 14:00“Lucas! That smells like him,” said Trisha.“Nah, that has an EBEE stench,” said Eva, sniffing the air. “Only Blue has officially been sent here. The smell purge probably was just in case I’d be here, but I agree with her, this looks like a setup. In the middle of a human town like that, either they want to force her to expose herself to humans to solve the case… or they hope to be able to take her out alone when she searches for the missing people.”“Last year, some elders at the EBEE worked with Lucas to take down my family, but they failed. I think the setup isn’t just against Blue, it’s also to expose us. Why else would they leave corpses drained of blood for humans to find?” said Veronica.“All right, so we will solve this case the old-fashioned way and talk in code between us when town folks are around,” said Coralis, her hand on the door handle. “Here is what we will do. We will go next door to confirm our theory, and then we check on the corpses. We will d
June 8, 2003 – 11:00Coralis hovered above the rooftop of Eva’s apartment building. Because of her line of work, Eva didn’t want to live on any pack lands, to prevent endangering innocent pack members if one of her enemies decided to seek out revenge against her.Given their long list of enemies, Coralis had her building warded recently, to prevent any elementals from entering Eva’s building, except for her very short list of trusted ones. She also warded it to allow Eva to go in and out of her apartment using portals to and from her rooftop, without any human seeing anyone mysteriously appearing and disappearing from it.“I hate portals, but I think I’m going to start using that method when coming home covered in blood,” said Coralis as Eva sat behind her.“Are we still meeting with Princess Veronica in a small town near Chicago called Clear Valley?”“Yes, Alfredino sent me there. I called Veronica right after I ended my call with him. No one in her family called the EBEE and she sai
April 26, 2003After her flyball game in France, she stopped at her London flat. She hadn’t been there for a month and Henry told her she had a pile of mail waiting for her.“Hey sis, it feels like forever since we haven’t seen each other, yet you still live here, technically,” said Erik.“True, last time I stopped here for the night, you weren’t there.”“Ah yes, we were playing in Asia. Are you still working in Scotland?”“Not at the moment. This past month I’ve been working more in the United States, but I’m being sent to just about everywhere for consulting works lately.”“That explains why you’ve been getting a lot of mail from EBEE,” said Henry.“While I’m here, I should also collect my stash of uncashed checks.”“Speaking of the United States, we got a tip regarding Fart in the Sea, somewhere in Florida. You in?” said Gus.“If I don’t have to be across the planet when you’re going there, count me in.”Coralis had a drink with them and took off toward Montreal. She arrived at her
March 10, 2003Coralis got back home in the middle of the night. They considered installing a pet door on their kitchen window. Their back door didn’t have a screen door. The window did have a screened layer, but it wasn’t the time of the year to leave the windows open and they didn’t want squirrels to come in during summertime. It would look suspicious if only Cheetah could pass through a pet door, so they decided against it.Once again, she had a lot of blood on herself, but her winter coat was clean. She was hoping that no one would notice the blood on her face as she crossed the street and was thankful that Frank chose an apartment located across the street from the park.She took a shower to get the blood off her skin and crawled into bed next to Frank. He turned to bring her closer to him.“Hey luv!” he said in a sleepy voice, as she passed her left arm around his chest. “How was your night?”“Long and weird. Elf against pixies, goblins and djinns in the mix. We were 6 agents an
December 24, 2002 – 21:35“There is a lot of truth to that, I think,” said Coralis.“What about your bloodlines? You two are pure-blooded, right?” said Lizzy.“Yes, we are. Mine originates from the Roman goddess Salacia, we’re water mages. We’re close to our god and although most of my family lives in an elemental realm… somewhere underground… we never agreed to the radical ideology that wants us to rule over humans. We believe we should guide and protect, not rule and enslave.”Sebastian removed his vest and rolled up the short sleeve of his shirt to reveal what looked like a small tattoo behind his left shoulder, a pattern symbolizing his family goddess.“When we reach maturity, usually a few years after graduation, but depends on bloodline and, well, life events,” continued Sebastian while putting his vest back on, “we get the mark of our family god. It appears on our skin overnight or gradually, depending on the bloodline.”“Oh, so we could potentially be in danger from your kind?
December 24, 2002 – 21:00“Uh, right, sure. I admit I’m not fully knowledgeable about human marriage rituals, I mean, ceremonies, except from what I saw in the movies I watched with Stephanie. I’ve had classes on human society at school so we can blend in better, but the teacher didn’t elaborate on the marriage part. Coralis might have to teach me about it,”“Nah, my past among humans taught me about divorce, I’m not a reference there.”“Right, so. Yes, we view mates as soulmates and unlike humans, we don’t do divorce. For us, when we decide to take a mate, it’s a forever thing and the ritual ensures that. However, I will also point out that when it comes to mixed couples, I mean, when an elemental takes a non-elemental mate, or spouse, we may or may not do the full ritual, it depends on the couple and uh, the non-elemental partner,” said Sebastian.“Why does it differ, is it because it involved a certain amount of magic?” said Frank, his arm still around Coralis’s shoulder.“Partiall
December 24, 2002 – 19:10“BRO!” said Stephanie and Frank at the same time.They all stopped eating.“Why would we?” said Coralis.“Humans aren’t our enemies, I don’t see why we would kill you all just because we could,” said Sebastian.“I’m not trying to offend anyone, but I can’t help myself from wondering if you’re all into a fake bubble, feeling safe when you aren’t, although I can hear myself thinking clearly, so I don’t know. I’m confused about all of this. Coralis, if you grew up in orphanages, shouldn’t you hate us all? Unless you didn’t.”“BRO! That’s enough!” said Frank, then looked at Coralis, “Luv, you don’t have to answer him.”“It’s fine,” she said while massaging his thigh to reassure him. “It’s a legit concern, especially considering the current heated climate among elemental clans and other supernatural. There are a lot of clans and factions out there that want me to hate humans enough to turn against them.”“But you would never, I know you would never, right? Neither