Nothing Will Happen To You

After we had a few more discussions, majorly discoveries about my wolf. I believed all reports they gave me one after the other and I could not help but be surprised.

I wanted to probe further but he strongly and indirectly countered me. I already got his message so I no longer bothered, then I remembered his burning forest. 

 "How's the Eldrid forest now?" I asked.

"Why do you care?" Jordan just suddenly started acting grumpy. What was his deal, really?

 "Why not? I was there when Kai reported it to you, and by the way what's Eldrid forest?"

"The training ground." Karima responded and my eyes widened. 

"Really? Really? That forest where I almost died?" I raised my brows,not believing I had been so worried about the forest that almost had me killed. 

 "That was my fault, I am very sorry." Karima apologized and I frowned. 

"Why are you taking responsibility for what happened?"

 "She has to, because she serves you."

"You have overstayed your welcome, Jordan, you can leave." I said to him, feeling annoyed. They both kept cutting me off and replying for each other. 

 "Not so soon, Mira." Jordan replied, giving me that suspicious eye. 

"What do you mean?" I inquired and turned to Karima slowly, to ask her if she probably knew anything.

 She shook her head slowly and then Jordan stood up from the couch. "We are heading to the Eldrid forest together, woman." He announced and my heart skipped a beat..

"Ain't no way I am going back there." I whined, not believing my ears.

 "Yes you are." He insisted and I turned to Karima for help, it did not seem like she had any help to offer anyway. Like they both had it all planned out.

"Why??" I cried. "You need to get to the very end of yourself, Mira." Karima chipped in, responding. 

 What was all these? What end again? 

 Before I could say any more thing, we were bi-located and I needed no one to tell me that Jordan had did that. 

I frowned so hard the moment we landed on that familiar spot in the Eldrid forest. "I am on just pants and sweatshirt." I whined but he did not even pay much attention.

 "Stop whining and let's get to work. We have only three hours to spend here." He said.

"What is that supposed to mean?" I raised my brows, asking no one in particular but I got a response. 

 Karima snuck up from behind and said to me, "We are here on a mission and it has to be carried out within then. Our time starts now." 

Everything she said only got me even more confused. "What mission are you talking about? In this forest?" 

  "Yeah, it's some sort of punishment for the book you read."

 "Wait, the Italian book? Why? Who's giving the punishment? I thought the book was Jordan's?" 

At that point, Jordan was already walking quite far away from us so he could not have overheard our conversation. It also seemed like Karima was now comfortable with giving me those information.

"Yes, it's his. But you are not supposed to have an access to any information that has to do with your wolf, Kierra. It should be a personal discovery, one of the ancient punishments given to Kierra for self reflection." 

"Okay.." I said, urging her to continue. There was a moment silence for a while before she continued.

 "So young Lord Reign stole Mr. Jordan's book and brought it to you, still that does not matter to the moon goddess. As long as the book gets to you, the owner is to be punished and that's what we are here for."

"Oh wow, what could Kierra have done that made things so hard this way?" I was even feeling pity for Kierra when she was literally me. 

 "Uhm...that..."

"What are guys doing? Get over here!" Jordan yelled from where he was, making us startled and urged to hasten our steps after him. 

So Karima did not get to tell me what it was that Kierra did. 

 We continued walking for a while without me even knowing what exactly our mission was. 

We eventually stopped, and then Jordan turned around to face us. "There is a serial killer here, he has been killing the creatures in this forest, he tried to burn the whole forest a few days ago also." He started and we waited patiently for him to finish up.

"The twist here is that, he was set loose in this forest on purpose, and I am meant to put him out within two hours and...."

 "Twenty minutes now." Karima helped him out and he nodded at her, as a form of 'thank you.'

 

"But why?" I raised a question. Why would a killer be set on the loose, on purpose at that.

 "It's what I get because someone stole my book and gave it to the person who read it." He replied sarcastically and I already got it.

"Oh...I apologize got that, but what to do now? How do we catch him?"

  "He is right here in this forest and the major reason why I brought you here is because we would be needing your sensitive hearing and sight, not to act like some superhero."

That hurt a bit but it was fine, I decided to let him off with it, not like I could do anything by the way. 

  "So, let's get to work." Jordan declared and then started walking away from where I was, I noticed Karima was doing the same too.

"What? Why are you guys staying back?" I was so confused and scared that something crazy was already happening. 

 

"I need you to summon your energy from within, Mira. It can be sudden and explosive and that's why we are doing this. Don't be scared, just keep your eyes on me and trust me. Nothing will happen to you, I will make sure of that." He promised.