Chapter 398

Before we’d wiped out most of the violent cells, my sister had been actively recruiting anyone capable of Transforming. That fell off, and when Lucy started her program on July 1, only five other new recruits began with her. There were a couple leftovers from the March cycle who hadn’t finished for whatever reason, but not enough to keep all three trainers busy. So Aurora and Shane were handling all of the training, only bringing Meagan in when they needed a different point of view.

Sometimes I went with Lucy to training just because I was bored. My mom still made me practice math every day, but not having homework helped. I was finally ungrounded from seeing Brandon at the end of May—my grounding was stretched a bit longer because of my “fresh mouth”—but sticking around the apartment wasn’t an option. Five seconds in the same room with Liz Findley and I was ready to levitate her right on out the door.

“You know, you real