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“SO YOU MEAN TO TELL me that it’s been a week and in that week not only has Sig gone missing, but the entire program at Grigori has fallen apart and Aella has taken over the Deviant Class with Greisen Calder as her Advisor?” I sat, biting my already chipped nails, trying to even them out. “What the actual fuck?”
I looked at Herlihy, who had joined Gage and I in the living room, with complete horror. “You knew about this?”
“Actually, this is news to me. Had I known, I would have stepped in. Apparently the Senate is keeping me out of the loop as to the goings on at Grigori. That is something I am not happy about. Leonas Calder is on the board there. He would have been more than aware of all of this.”
He stood up, I must make preparations for an interrogation now. This is all highly suspect, especially after his nephew’s involvement in Keegan’s kidnapping, in the spring. We were putting it as a power grab by one ousted family member, but now with this having happened...” He turned toward me. “Do you think you may be able to help Aella turn this around? Talk some sense into her perhaps, before it blows out of control completely?”
“I can try?”
“Well, she should be susceptible to your suggestions. Hell, you can command Sig, so why not her?” Gage chimed in. “If that stupid Museling can get her to do what Greisen wants...” Gage went quiet. As Herlihy and I looked at him suspiciously.
“I- it was something I heard them talking about as I was coming to in my cage after the moon. She made Aella unfurl her Dragon at some party. It’s why she doesn’t have her wings.”
“I didn’t know she didn’t have wings?” I whispered. “How do they do that to a Dragon?”
“It’s a ceremony with barbaric rituals and spells that curse them under the skin until they meet certain requirements. For Aella, she needs to find a balance between her heart and her head. They need to be on the same page for her to become whole once more. She needs a cause to fight for.” Herlihy half smiled as he shook his head. “Perhaps everything does happen for a reason, and perhaps you need to go to Grigori as quickly as possible.”
I nodded, standing up. “I need to grab a few things at Samuel’s, then we can go. Gage you can take me, yes?”
“You are the Bosslady, but what about the Bossman?”
I looked at my would be father in law, who shook his head no.
“It’s to be just us, then?”
“Just us, is just fine.” Gage put his arm around me as he fished in his pocket for a bit of beef jerky. Apparently he just had it there, marinating. He’s a strange, strange young man.