Someone's Lurking Around

EverMore Academy

~Ashley~

"If you continue doing that, you'd kill your friend. Oh, poor Cassie." I heard Yoel say in a sing-song tone.

I looked at Cassie and noticed her eyeballs had rolled into her head, and she was also convulsing slightly.

"We need to stop or we might kill her!" I yelled but Keller had her eyes shut as she mumbled the spell.

I tried to push Cassie out but a stronger force held me in place.

"If you do that, you'd risk loading them both! Just let her do her thing." Gatlin said.

My eyes moved from Cassie to Keller and I finally accepted to hold Cassie down.

"There are things called bad advice. Remember, you never get to tell the good ones apart from the bad ones until the havoc has been wrecked."

Yoel's voice came up again, but this time, I was determined not to pay any heed to him.

When Keller opened her eyes, I felt a gust of wind blow and I instantly knew that the barrier had been broken.

When I looked up at Cassie again, to my dismay, she had her eyelids