The Twilight Children//The School for Good and Evil

10 ~ Secrets

. : Sebastian of Havfrue : .

Sebastian watched Kendrick leave the clearing. He could barely stomach the guilt after what he had said and after Laura's face. Kendrick had murdered children for no reason, and Sebastian had stood aside and allowed it. Bile rose in his throat as Kendrick left the clearing. The more time he spent with the pirate, the longer he began to regret not standing up to his parents and insisting they worked without the pirates. He may have gone to war, but he knew that his soldiers would only fight other soldiers.

He turned back to Laura. Agatha had moved beside her throughout, and her eyes were wide. She leaned over to murmur something to the brunette. Laura was watching Kendrick vanish before she lowered her hands and let the fire drop. She leaned down to respond to Agatha, but froze, her eyes locked on him.

Sebastian's eyes narrowed as she let out a shuddering breath that condensed as if it were cold out. Her eyes went wide, and out of focus, staring at nothing. Her breathing began to quicken, her expression hazy.

Tedros nudged him, his hand resting on the hilt of his sword. "Is this normal?"

Sebastian made a move to respond, his hand gently picking at the crab and shell crest on his chest as a source of nervousness, but froze as she dropped to the ground, her body twitching. The blue grass around her began to ice over.

Ice spread out rapidly in a circular motion, creating white frost patterns on the navy grass, despite the heat that was pouring down on Sebastian's freckled face. The air temperature around them began to chill, the sweat on Sebastian's neck cooling, and he had a sense that if he reached back, it would be frost.

Agatha instantly dropped to her knees in the cold grass, the pink uniform doing nothing to stop the chill on her knees., grabbing Laura's shoulders. "Laura? What's wrong? Are you okay?"

Laura's body twitched, and her eyes drifted in and out of focus. The frost spread out of her body and began to creep around the clearing, towards the base of the surrounding trees.

"No, it's not," Sebastian watched her body move on the ground. "It's always been fire with her. I've never seen anything else. Especially the exact opposite of the magic she favours."

"You have to help me," Agatha huffed, trying desperately to hoist Laura up, but failing. "she needs to go to the nurse. Something is wrong."

Sebastian snorted, but a twinge of guilt pulled at him. Kendrick wouldn't hesitate to leave her. He would say to let her die.

He could sense Tedros watching him, waiting for a move on what to do. He didn't want Tedros to look down on him either, not when Sebastian had worked so hard to become a leader and somebody the boy could look up to. 

Sebastian let out a breath of air and dropped his hand off the sword. He had to help. He didn't know what was wrong but didn't want to be the reason she died in the clearing instead of him getting the opportunity to fight her properly.

"Come on Tedros." 

Tedros made a noise that sounded like relief and followed Sebastian as he went over.

Sebastian hooked one arm over his shoulder, and Tedros took the other. He instinctively moved his head away from her hands. A phantom throb of pain flashed over the back of his own hands as he recalled the burns that had rested there. She didn't make a move, however, her weight slumping forward into both him and Tedros. 

Sebastian flinched at the chill that seeped through his clothing. Every time he had been close to her, she had radiated heat. The cold seemed to radiate from her body, pressing into him. A thin layer of frost began to develop on his shirt where her hand brushed.