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I must learn how to replicate this style. It’s my responsibility to keep her hair beautiful.
“Suck up,” Charlie coughed.
“You’re cute together,” one of the twins said, although I couldn’t say which. All that differentiated them was a colored bracelet.
“Can you feel Clawdia like a normal familiar?” Karin asked, and the joyous atmosphere was suddenly doused.
The twin with the blue bracelet sighed. “Karin. Honestly. Take a break.”
“Karin is a witch genius,” Clawida told us, “She’s going to help us figure out how to stop the knife Mary gave to Fafnir.”
“Do we think he still has it?” Charlie asked.
“What do you mean?” Clawdia frowned.
“Didn’t it get lost under the rubble of the factory?”
“Maybe,” she drawled, a puzzled expression on her face as she thought back to our escape. “But it’s better to be safe than sorry. Karin has also offered to help you learn witch things.”
Both Charlie and I eyed Karin suspiciously, but she innocently smiled and said, “It would be my pleasure to help.”
“Oh, yay, another tutor.” Charlie rolled his eyes. “I’ve not had this much academic attention since I hacked into the school reporting system to change my grades.” He leaned in to whisper into her ear. “I made the mistake of shooting too high. As soon as they saw the As, they knew I’d done something. Couldn’t prove it, of course.”
Clawdia laughed and playfully slapped at his arm. “Oh, Charlie. You’re so naughty.”
“Not as naughty as I could be,” he growled and pressed her between us.
“Behave,” she said in a voice that belied her words. She squirmed out from between us, stumbling a little as she went. “I’ll get us something to drink.”
I caught her and asked, “How much have you had already?”
“Not a lot.”
“On an empty stomach.” I frowned and picked up something from the plate behind me. “Eat this.” My fingers grazed her lips as I pushed a sausage roll between her lips. Her gaze never faltered as she chewed, and something primal within me relished the action of feeding my soul pair. Especially when her violet eyes burned so intensely as I did so.
“Sickeningly sweet,” the pink-braceleted twin said as she tucked her arm into Clawdia’s and pulled her away. “Come and get something to drink, Clawdia.”
“I’ll bring you something back,” she called as she merged into the crowd, the blue-braceleted twin following them.
And so we were left with Karin. She stared at us but made no attempt to start a conversation.
“So, you’re big into the witch thing.” Charlie broke the silence, rubbing the back of his neck. I picked up my plate of food and started eating as I watched them.
“You’re not?” she asked.
“Well, I only just learned about it.”
“So you don’t care to learn.” She crossed her arms, and her eyes narrowed.
“I want to learn. I just haven’t had a lot of time yet. Dragons, evil witches.” He chuckled awkwardly and shot me a wide-eyed look.
“Do you think having a familiar helps your magic? Do you feel stronger?” she asked, returning to the topic of familiars.
“I didn’t know I was a witch before, so any magical thing I was doing wasn’t intentional. Getting Clawdia as a familiar and learning I was a witch happened at the same time, so yeah, I feel stronger, but it probably helps knowing more about my history and also that my familiar is half titan,” he explained with a frown.
She turned to me. “I don’t know anything about titans. What does it mean to be a titan soul pair?”
I gave her a brief history of the fall, and she stared at me with eyes burning with interest. But there was something unsettling in them.
