She exhaled, trying to calm her thoughts before she replied.

"I remember when this student was brought here." She pointed at Gia laying on the bed. Her thoughts could only recall seeing her.

"And?" Lank interrupted, angered by the fact that he was the very person who had brought her, so there was no way she was meant to forget his existence so quickly.

"Excuse me!" Miss Galena said with a heavy tone of voice, pointing a finger and moving it around.

Raising his hands over his head, Lank prepared to give up on all that had happened. If this looks like a game to her.

Nix furrowed his brows. Nothing added up and things did seem pointless.

"Could you tell me why you were unconscious on your desk?" Nix questions.

"I think I was hit... Uh... It was a strange feeling." She replied only to him.

"She was meant to be with Mr. Gaviel and Mrs. Neider," Lumina interjected. "Why is he the only one we see here and not Fae?!"

"Would you shut the hell up, I am as confused as you are!!" Lank spat.

For a moment Lumina was stunned by his outburst.

"She was over there," he pointed at where Mr. Gaviel slept, still unconscious. "She was over there..." he repeated as his voice trailed off.

"I am not crazy." He mumbled, dropping to his knees and staring at Mr. Gaviel, wishing he would wake up soon.

Nix squatted by the side of Lank, placing a hand on his shoulder. "I believe you, you don't have to beat yourself up for it. We'd get through this together." He assured with a smile.

Lank's tense muscles eased with his words, it felt like water had doused his heated nerves.

"Thank you." Lank patted Nix's hand and smiled.

Standing up, Nix looked over to miss Galena. "Could you please go back to your desk and take a quick nap?"

Nodding her head to his words, she walked back to her desk and placed her head down.

Slowly she drifted back to sleep.

'An ability of a fire rank?!' Lank's mouth gaped open at what he had seen. If he hadn't been the one to have knocked on their dorm door, he would have thought Nix was behind all of this.

"What the hell was that?" Lumina hissed, shocked by the easy way he had been able to get information from her and order her to get back to where she was.

What he did was not normal. Given Miss Galena's temper, it wasn't that easy for a student to cajole her to do anything, other than appealing.

"What was what?" He tilted his head, confused by the accusation posed to him.

Folding her arms, frowning. Several things confused the shit out of her at that point.

First, it was the news about her brother being alive but not in the way she imagined? Coupled with Fae going missing. Second, does Nix have some sort of ability that could control people?

"What other abilities do you have?" He did a brief body scan at him, wary about being a victim of what she had seen happen.

'Pretty face, this isn't an ability, per se.' He smiled at her question, refusing to answer.

Glaring daggers at him, it almost reminded her of how he would seamlessly deflect her gift. Her glares were not having the right hold on him that she had expected.

He was meant to feel guilty, tensed at the least. Instead, he had a big grin and it looked like it only increased gradually as she stared.

Unable to break eye contact, she spoke to Lank. "Why was she here?"

Lank raised his head to her question. If he were to say what had happened to her, she would only get more cranky than she already was.

"She wanted to pay a visit to Gia like Mr. Gaviel wanted to." He lied.

Finally being able to break eye contact with the strange explanation she had heard, she gave full attention to Lank.

"Do I look like a fool to you?!" She hissed. "I had given her a task back in class which involved Mr. Gaviel and Mrs. Neider."

Lank simply shrugged at her words. There was no way that he could explain what was going on, "think whatever you want to think. I delivered the message and that's fine by me."

Looking around, Nix shook his head. They were caught in a tight position, one that they couldn't easily decipher.

From what he had heard from Lank, it seemed the answers lay with Mr. Gaviel. All they needed to do was wake him up.

"Lumina, that's enough. He said he doesn't know." Nix pulled her back.

"But my brother–"

'Her brother?' Lank did a double-take. All the dots began to connect in his thoughts. The anger she had felt seemed to be a bit justified.

"I had thought you were an only child." Lank interrupted, guilty about what he had said earlier.

Lumina glared at him for jumping to such a conclusion. Even though she had not said anything about her past to anyone apart from Fae, that wasn't a go-ahead to term her the only child.

"If you had asked, maybe you might have known!" Lumina spat.

"Clues..." Lumina began, pacing about as she was in deep thought on what she needed to do.

"The classroom!" She exclaimed. Walking at her top speed and towards the said place.

Nix and Lank followed in tow.

Slam!

Immediately they had gone towards the classroom, Mr. Gaviel opened his eyes slightly.

He let out a groan that he had kept at bay while they were present. "That foolish boy almost blew my cover."

Frowning he looked over at Gia who was still unconscious and gave a hush sign to her as if she could hear all that had transpired.

'This is the only way. Please be safe, Fae.' He thought with a sigh. Recreating his position he had been since they had entered.

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