Talent

  Chapter 12

  At the base of the hill at Connelly Park the group were all finishing up from training. Violet was long gone and Keterlyn had called it quits. Everyone was in various states of disarray, tired, pained, bruised and streaked with dirt.

  Ashleigh groaned loudly. “Everything hurts.”

  “We should catch a movie or something, have some downtime.” Jake added reluctant to leave having spent more time with people tonight than all his social gatherings for the last year put together.

  “It’s like midnight!” Rebecca protested.

  “No, we should do something together to relax.” Lily supported.

  ”Just be inconspicuous doing it.” Keterlyn indicated as she stretched.

  “You aren’t coming?” Molly sounded disappointed.

  “I’m going to go home and sleep. Obviously I didn’t tire you out enough today, tomorrow I’ll do better.” With a smile she left the larger group and started waling down the road in to the dark.

  “Want a ride?” Daniel offered, calling out after her, and resulting in gwaffing sounds from Will and Abel.

  Keterlyn looked at him dubiously. “You really have to start thinking about how your new world works you know.” With that she wisped away into thin air.

  Lily sighed. “I can’t wait until I can do that. I’m going to save so much cash on bus fare.”

  “Definitely,” Jake agreed. “But she said it could be years before you actually end up where you want to go.”

  Daniel smiled to himself.

  Molly laughed at Lily and Jake. “And why are you still catching the bus? You should get yourself a car – have some fun with this.”

  Will suddenly gave an almost evil grin. “You’re right. We should have some fun with this. I mean some real fun. What do you think Tempe?”

  “Nah – I have somewhere I have to be. Go cut loose for me though.” Tempest walked backwards away from the group as Will gave a disappointed gesture. On that note, Tempest left, and Will wondered what his brother could be up to.

  Anise, ever eager to follow where Will led, bounced up and down getting all keyed up, and making up for Tempest’s lack of enthusiasm. “What do you have in mind?”

  “Nothing against the rules.” Rebecca added cautiously. “I like this, I don’t want to lose it because of some macho urge to show off.”

  Will gave his best boy scout sign. “Nothing conspicuous, I get the message loud and clear matron. Just a little downtime.”

  Micala and Rebecca exchanged a worried look, as Daniel disappeared slowly in to the dark of the night.