Code of Shadows

Battle Prep (Part 31)

I stared down at Dylan. He was different than before. A little taller, a little more built. He was not the boy I remembered from Windsdover, something was different.

"What's up Cait? Long time no see," he reached out at me. I punched him in the gut, Dylan curled up on impact.

"Oh my god, I am so sorry, I am still a little jumpy, and sometimes things happen and I don't control them..."

"No kidding," he weazed. There was a moment of silence while I tried to catch words and Dylan tried to recover from being punched.

"How do you know him?" Meredith asked incredidously.

This time I turned to look back and forth between Dylan and Meredith.

"Uh... Um..." Damn my stupid mouth!

"We're friends," he said.

Meredith then turned to me. "You know a Myona?" the disbelief in her voice was over the top now.

I staired at Dylan like a dear in headlights.

"Yes," I squeaked. I quickly looked around to see the whole cafeteria staring at me.

I quickly sat down and tried to hide in a table with only 4 people, including me. This definately wasn't a great hidding place. The prying eyes of the crowd finally left me, and I slumped down in my seat and rubbed my face.

"Why does my life have to be so stupidly complicated," I groaned. I stayed silent for the rest of the lunch. Meredith and Dylan chatted, but I payed no attention to any of it. Meredith and Dove seamed to know Dylan's family really well, and I had no clue what the significance of his family was outside of Almosa. I was so innocent and uninformed. I seriously needed to change that. I reached inside and found Belle as a yellow and gray blurr outside of the castle. She swirled and never stopped moving.

I nudged her, and my hand went straight through her.

I called out. Belle? I asked.

Belle's mist pulled a little more into a human shape. Cait, I don't have much time, can you make it quick? The Fantasies are having a meeting, and I am currently there.

I frowned. How can you be there? Aren't you in my mind?

I am in your mind, but not completely right now. You know that I am completely in your mind when you can see me clearly not as a blurr. If I am a blurr, I am traveling through the energy that surrounds us. The fantasies called a meeting with your arrival to the academy, and we will be discussing were the fantasies intend to be going... That wasn't what you came to ask for though, what is it?

Oh, I was wondering if you know anything about the social class of the outside world... I kind of just had a situation were I almost created a deep hole for myself to climb out of...

Belle's mist shifted. Sorry Cait, I cannot say that I actually know anything about the guardian social class. The most updated I am is not relevant at all. It was several generations ago when my previous choosen host died.

Wait, slow down. What do you mean by choosen host? I thought you choose your host every time.

Belle sighed. Not for a long, long time. A young man figured out how to capture a fantasy spirits once that they are trying to find a new vessel. The man passed me from his daughter to her daughter, and so on, not letting me choose my vessel. Thankfully, he died with the information to transport fantasies against their will, and he waisted the rescources that alowed you to do it so that it can never happen again. That was how the previous Belle gave us a bad reputation. She stole my spirit, then used it for evil.