𝓟𝐫𝗼𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝓢𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐮𝐧𝐞

Chapter #30 - Humans

Chapter #30 - Humans

Elijah

The emptiness Elijah had just felt was unbearable.

He'd hoped he wouldn't have to experience it again.

But here he was. Keefe had shouted some command thing and everything went back to feeling...

Blank.

Heartless.

Empty.

Everything was a bit fuzzy, but Elijah swore the creepy woman like amused. Her skin was weird and tight, and there was a white eye on her cloak— the Neverseen eye, he remembered from Keefe's description.

Then again, it was hard to focus.

Elijah was with a strange boy who was apparently an elf, another girl who had just been doing weird stuff with ice, and his wife suddenly had fire powers. He knew he should be scared. But in this empty haze, it was like he couldn't feel anything.

And that was the scariest part of all.

The Neverseen elf-lady began strapping some jeweled cuffs on Amy and Alice, finally making it to Elijah, with an examination like she wasn't sure about him.

"Keefe couldn't get an ability from him, and his potential's low. Useless," she whispered to herself. In Swedish, he realized, which must've meant she'd wanted Elijah to understand it.

He wasn't sure if being useless was good or bad.

***

Alice

It was the second time Keefe had shouted a word like "STOP!" in that same, helpless tone, and just like last time, it left Alice empty, as if all emotions were drained out of her body.

Gone.

But...

She could still feel the craving for fire. Except, it was... different. More controlled. Somebody could probably tell Alice to do anything with the flames, and she would just... do it.

With no emotions to guide the power, anyone could take control.

Was that what those Neverseen people were trying to do?

The creepy lady who apparently knew Vespera— it was still hard to believe the stories were true— went through her, Amy, and Elijah, strapping fancy blue cuffs on all their wrists except for Elijah's (with him, she muttered something about uselessness).

Suddenly, Keefe was able to move his hand and frantically started talking to a crystal device that looked sort of like a square phone.

***

Amy

"Grady! My mom—humans—numb—magsidian—HELP!"

"Slow down, Keefe. What's happening?" Amy heard the vaguely familiar voice of Sophie's adoptive father, weaved with worry, coming from the imparter Keefe was holding. But Amy's emotions were so jumbled, she couldn't even remember why it even mattered.

She was getting tired of feeling this... blankness.

Or rather, not feeling it.

"I gotta say..." said the woman who— before being numbed again— Amy had deduced had to be Lady Gisela. Keefe's mom, Sophie had said. "I certainly didn't expect you to have an imparter. I suppose I underestimated you for that one— though I doubt you willingly volunteered to take it." She sighed when he didn't deny it. "Still the same old Keefe."

She reached out to take the imparter before he could say anything else. But Keefe was able to shout, "We're in Sweden! But she put nexuses on the humans with abilities, so I think she's gonna take us somewhere! Just... be ready!"

Gisela took the imparter and turned off the hail before he could say more. She grabbed Alice, Amy, and her son, held up a blue pathfinder, and said an inaudible name— a city?

For the first time in her life, Amy wished she was terrified.