SEVENTY-FOUR

AYSEL

Valens was acting weird and my powers were going wonky. I didn't know if the two had a correlation but I feared they might. I'd almost set his papers on fire this morning and yesterday, I went as stiff as a board mid-conversation that he feared I'd died.

I stared at the television screen without really seeing anything. I was bored out of my mind. Valens had to drop by the office, leaving me alone in the house. All alone, there was nothing for me to do asides eat and watch irrelevant shows. I picked up my phone a hundred times but everyone I knew was busy.

As someone who never had free time in the past, I had no idea what to do with the multitude I had now. To make things worse, we moved to this place which was detached from the rest of the pack. I could not access other places easily because it was an impossibly long walk from everyone else.

Just as I was thinking of how important it was for me to learn to drive, I heard a beep from the tablet beside me. It alerted me wheneve