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“Do not call me little!” Fiona screamed back even though she was little. I didn’t even think she’d grown since she was twelve. Still standing at four feet, eleven and a half inches. “Why did you ditch me, Emo Barbie!”
“Are you insulting me or complimenting me?” Rue laughed at her.
“Insulting! But you’re so stupid you think being compared to a brainless, disproportionate, plastic doll is a compliment!” Fiona yelled back at her.
“Listen here, dwarf! I will kick you to the moon!” Rue said.
“I am not a dwarf!” The fact that she had to stand on the stone to yell in Rue’s face about that did not help her case.
“Where is Adelaide?” Tala asked, looking around.
“Where else?” I nodded to the bent tree, where I could feel Adelaide taking a nap inside. Lifting two of my fingers, I pulled her out and onto the ground.
“Hey!” she snapped at me as she hit the grass. “That hurt!”
“Nothing hurts more than my ears right now,” Jericho said as he sat beside Fiona and Rue fighting.
I was annoyed, too.
“Enough!” I hollered, and the winds howled with me, my voice shaking through the leaves of the trees.
Rue and Fiona glared at each other before taking their seats with a huff. I glanced at Adelaide, and she was seated, allowing me to get on with this finally.
“How many?” I asked as I looked around the circle.
“Faye and I took one. A Noble,” Jericho said.
“Tala and I got two Lessers,” said Tate.
“One Lesser,” Fiona said.
“Which I took care of,” Rue muttered, but when I looked at her, she just fixed her nose ring.
“Druella and I had a Noble and one Lesser,” Simone added.
I glanced at Adelaide, who shrugged. “There were none left for me.”
“Did you fall asleep in the tree again?” I snapped at her.
“No,” she said.
“Shadow,” I called, and the cat appeared beside her. “Did we fall asleep in the tree again?”
“Yes, Adelaide,” she exclaimed.
“Bigmouth!” Adelaide yelled as she grabbed hold of Shadow and then glared at me. “Please stop tricking my familiar! That is no fair!”
“Be honest then! And stop falling asleep!” I snapped at her.
“I don’t mean to—I’m just so tired at night. Can’t we hunt them in the day?” she begged and pouted. Adelaide was the youngest of us, and it always showed.
“How exactly are we going to do that?” Tate asked her. “Most of them feel free to hunt at night. And the Lessers can only come out at night.”
“She knows. She’s just being a brat,” Simone said, rolling her eyes.
“Call me a brat one more time, Simone.” Adelaide glared, her cat hissing as well.
I wanted to pull my hair out. “Honestly, can we just finish this, please!”
