Chapter Eleven
“How’s training?” I ask Raven the next morning in the cafeteria.
“Good. My brothers were like zombies last night when they were done.” Raven chuckles.
“Maybe this training and team building stuff will work.” I take a bite of the sausage on my fork.
Jayden sits next to me, his tray overloaded much like mine and Raven’s. I raise a brow at him but he shrugs.
“I got up early and did some training with my magic. It’s growing much the same as you guys.”
“Have you noticed any new tricks?” I ask.
“My shield is stronger. It’s more solid and I can create shadows from nothing, not just use what’s already there.”
“I thought you could already create shadows?” I ask, tilting my head in confusion.
“No, I have my own shadows as a part of my magic that come from me and then a lot of the times I call the shadows around me. This is different.” Jayden shoves a whole piece of bacon in his mouth.
Is that what I look like now when I shovel food in my mouth? That’s a little disturbing.
“You said your shield is solid?” Raven asks. “Can you make all shadows solid?”
My cheeks heat and I glance down at the tray, finding my breakfast a lot more interesting. We aren’t even talking about sex. It’s an honest question with a very embarrassing answer.
“What’s wrong, baby?” Jayden asks, laughter in his voice.
“Shut up,” I say.
“Okay, gross. I clearly stepped in something with that question,” Raven says.
“Yes, I can make all shadows solid. Before I was able to do small objects, but I have been testing the size of objects I can control,” Jayden says, putting me out of my misery.
“Could you make like shadow people?” Raven asks, bouncing up and down in her seat.
“Theoretically, I suppose I could but I’m not sure. That might require another power jump.” He shrugs.
“I don’t think being dosed with god blood a third time will go over well,” I say.
“Yeah, I don’t need more power. At this rate I’m already a garbage disposal. I don’t want to get to a point where I’m always starving. I’m good,” Raven says.
“Yeah, that doesn’t sound like a good time to me either.” I shake my head.
“I’ll work up to shadow people if it’s even possible,” Jayden says.
“An army of shadow people would be cool,” Raven says.
“I might not even be able to create one. An army of them is out of the equation at the moment.” Jayden shakes his head.
“I didn’t say do it. I just said it would be cool.” Raven shrugs.
Greyson tilts his head to the side. “What did Hades say?”
“He already told Orpheus to keep the line of communication open with Grant,” Jayden says. “He said that he doesn’t think the shifter problem is going to directly impact us.”
“It’s going to impact everyone if it gets out of hand,” Greyson grumbles.
“He doesn’t think that’s my fate to solve. I’ll help if and when it’s needed but he doesn’t think it will be my responsibility to go to war over it.” I kick Jayden under the table, glaring at him.
