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"Is everything okay over here?" Jade asked as they dropped onto the wet sand next to us

I nodded "Everything’s great We found my necklace, Noah didn’t drown himself this is a stellar day"

As Noah and Gavin poked and teased each other, Jade turned towith Gavin?"

Drat her super perception skills She’d always been that way- never

Sometimes it caht now

"Nothing He got a little disoriented in the water No big deal The current is bad today and that et turned around"

"H my face "Whatever you say"

She turned to watch Noah and Gavin, restling around beside us, kicking up sand "Well, they both certainly seehts had already drifted to her and the vision that I had seen of her strapped to a hospital bed The boys were fine But was she?

Chapter Six

Beneath the surface of the pool, the water was a blue tinted serenity that I craved every day I tried to stay after swim practice at least twice a week so that I could collect ether into so that made cohesive sense In here, I was alone in utter silence It was a refreshing change of pace Nothing could bother me Not Tara, not the Moirae, not the mysterious Keres

I broke the surface, took a deep breath and dove back under As I pulled with long strokes, I allowed my mind to wander There was soquestions was Har her naht the better of it That was ridiculous The best part of being a soulthat you were meant for each other

I kicked off the tiled wall and shot toward the other side of the pool, plunging ain into the cold water And iained my composure

Directly in front ofin the depths of the pool like a giant black jellyfish, watching me with an intense expression on his creepy face His black robes were floating all around hinarled li presence Soalone

Macy, we need to talk

I heard his thoughts immediately in my mind, as clearly as if he had spoken aloud

Quickly Time is of the essence

I scowled at him as I swam to the side of the pool and pulled lanced around h the surface of the water, spraying htly landed on his feet next to ed at all

"Why itation "Would it really be so hard to just walk up tonose at me and I could practically feel the tension in his ancient body The air around us was pregnant with it which ie in conversation with you, Macy, I don’t have the ti out of control and there isn’t time to elaborate"

Alarm filled me up and every bit of me became panicked Ahulped I started to shake and I knew it had less to do with being soaking wet and more to do with this unknown situation

"What do you mean?" I asked hesitantly

"Listen to me, Keeper, and listen well I don’t have the time to repeat myself Trust no one

Do you understand?" I stared at hiain, impatient

"Do you understand?" he persisted, his voice harsh I nodded

"Why are you tellingon?"My voice was thin and I could hear the uncertainty in it So could he and he shook his head

"I can’t explain I wish that I could, but I have been rendered mute by the Moirae on this topic I literally cannot speak of it But there are things you still need to know" He trailed off and studiedeyes

"Such as?" I pressed