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"Still boring…"

"What kind of goddess do you want to be?"

"What do you et put into a certain path Most get a fire or water job, but I want so to do with plants and nature We all have a certain part in the seasonal change Well, et drafted"

"Drafted?"

"Didn’t you learn anything?"

I shrugged

"Sohting vampires and other underworldly creatures and soht the dead"

My asped in disbelief

"Yep, now co my forearm

When we made it to class, eren’t late at all Students were still trickling into the roo down

"We aren’t late," I pointed out

"I know, but I didn’t want to risk it" She chuckled

We sat at the end of a long desk in the back row

"So how do you knohat you’re going to be when you leave here?"

Mila sighed She was hoping that I would drop the conversation

"I don’t know, life experiences, preference, skills At the end of our schooling, we are judged by various tests in different eleories-- seasonal goddesses, war goddesses, educational goddesses, and goddesses of light -- which is working for the higher power If you’re intellectual and good at teaching, you’ll oddess; if you’re a warrior by nature, you’lland hard about what Mila said I didn’t want a boring job like sprouting flowers in spring andthe leaves fall in autumn, but on the other hand, I didn’t want to spendand hard about what I wanted to do and just hope that I got put where I wanted to be

"What will happen to Eli if I’el will be assigned to soht with you for your protection It can go either way"

I didn’t want to do any of the careers Mila mentioned

"I could be like Muested

"No, that’s dangerous Your powers becoic It would be like putting a chicken in a wolf’s’ den and telling hioddesses and va powerless goddesses and vaht about Muh to hurt Hank

"The last thing you want to do is what your mum did Harsh, I know, but look what happened Just do your best and hope you’re given a job that keeps you safe Then od and have a family"

I wonder how Mila would react if I told her I didn’t want a god? That I wanted a guardian angel as a od What if I told her it was Eli that I wanted? No I couldn’t; Raina would no doubt be pressuring her for anymore ’dirt’ on me, even hts were interrupted as Rylan walked through the door; he spotted me and then avoided eye contact Unlucky for him there were only a few seats left and he had to walk past reeted as he walked by

He didn’t reply

"What did you do to hi, did I? "I said I wouldn’t go to the dance with him"

"What? Why did you say no?" She looked at me as if I was crazy

"Because, I didn’t even know there was a dance, and also because I don’t like hione as friends"

"Then you go with hi with Gabriel"

"No, you-- hat? When were you going to tell me?"

"When you had a date, then I wouldn’t feel bad I don’t want you to go alone," she confessed

"I don’t care about going alone I don’t feel that way about any of the boys at this school" Except Eli, the one guy I couldn’t date

"Oh Ruby, just do it," she begged

"I thought being with guardian angels was forbidden?" I whispered to avoid being over heard

"It is, sexually," she whispered ever so quietly whilst glancing around cautiously "You can date theher power zap you with lightning or whatever it is he does?"

Mila laughed "First of all, he doesn’t ‘zap’ people, he’s just the ruler and protector of our kind-- like a king, and second of all, the higher power only finds out if souardian angel and no one knows, then how can the higher power find out? He can’t watch everyone, he’s too busy, but if someone reports it, necessary steps are taken to prevent further intimate interactions"

"Okay, settle down," called a statuesque woman that entered to the room and stood at the front of the class room

"That’s Miss Willohispered Mila

She was anonetheless