Gale yanked the chain and pulled me close.

  “I’ve got you alone in my room,” he said, smirking and I grimaced as he yanked my hair.

  “You know too much now,” he muttered, gripping the chain and dragging me to the dresser.

  “Can you read runes?” he asked, yanking on my hair and bringing my head to the rune necklaces.

  Say yes

  Roy: Are you nuts? Say no, now!

  “I...a little. Only twenty-eight runes,” it isn’t technically a lie. Jonah never taught me more but I could figure out the others by their position and linking relevance. I was good with languages.

  “So you can’t read the messages?” he asked.

  Say yes

  Strength: Say no! Ya don’t want to get killed do ya, Myra? Jonah’s waiting on ya.

  “No I can’t,” I said.

  That’s good no one must know. I’ll take it to the grave with me, I promised her.

  What is going on? Who’s thoughts were these? I glanced at Gale. He hadn’t said a thing. Yet I know I heard him.

  If she doesn’t know anything then she can go back to her cell.

  Great! Now I’m hearing Gale’s thoughts? What’s next? A disappearing act? This must be the new voice’s power going out of whack like Benny’s did. Gale yanked my head to him and stared me in the eye.

  “You swear that you haven’t read these runes?” he said.

  Say you have

  Maryanne: Don’t pay attention to Sympathy. Right now we can’t afford to.

  “I swear I have...not!” I said almost slipping thanks to the new voice whispering in my head and Gale’s thoughts swamping mine. Why didn’t he want Jonah and Datha to find out about him being their real father? He glared at me and I glared back.

  “What?” I asked.

  “What did you say?”

  Crap did I say that out loud?

  “I said I wondered why you have Jonah’s and Datha’s Rune necklaces,” I said and he humphed.

  “That wasn’t what I heard before. You asked a specific question.”

  “I-I did?”

  “Yes, you know more than you say. For that you’ll have to be kept near me,” he muttered, gripping my chain and dragging me to a slave ring by his bed. He linked my chain to the ring and left the room. I growled and pulled at the chain. It wouldn’t budge and unless I wanted a whole brigade in this very room I was stuck again. I needed to contact Jonah. He needed to get out of his cell and come for me and he deserved to know what I found as well. I left reality for my world and entered my mind room.

  “Well that was a bust,” said Jessica, buffing her nails.

  “No, really?” Roy muttered.

  “We need a new escape plan,” said Mark, pushing his glasses up his nose.

  “Bookworm’s right. We need to escape this new imprisonment,” said Jack.

  “Why didn’t Siren work on him?” asked Strength.

  “It probably has to do with his element. He can scramble his thoughts to the wind and evade hypnosis. We picked the wrong target. We should have stuck with the guard,” said Siren surprising Mark.

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  “How do you know that about his element?” he asked.

  “I read. Wind is known for unpredictability and it’s not obscure if he’s able to pull something like that off,” she said, stretching her lithe form.

  “So he scrambled his mind and escaped hypnotism,” asked Preacher.

  His thoughts, and yes,” said Siren.

  “What do we do now?” asked Strength as he leaned against the subconscious entrance.

  “We must be gentle and fair,” said a sweet voice and I looked for the cause of it but found nothing.

  “She hasn’t been born yet,” said Jack.

  “She’s a strong one if she can make me say a secret I was hiding,” I said glaring into the subconsciousness. Because of her we were in this mess.

  “She can influence but the one who chose to tell the truth was you, Myra,” said Jack smirking.

  “I didn’t want to tell the truth to him!” I cried pointing outside the mindscape.

  “Jack’s right. Sympathy played on your feelings of guilt and you fell for it. It seems she may be one of the worst of us,” said Maryanne.

  “Do you know what she looks like?” I asked and Marryanne glanced at Jack who shook his head.

  “I haven’t seen her but I feel her. She’ll be the youngest of us age-wise,” she said and Jack slapped his face and rubbed his face. Maryanne looked apologetic.

  “How young?” I asked suspicious of Jack who was glaring at Maryanne.

  “You’ll have to see,” Jack mumbled as Maryanne opened her mouth. She glared at him and he glared back.

  “Okay, then. What do we do now,” I asked and Benny smirked.

  “Now I will transport us away from here as soon as we get free from that ring,” she said, her neon hair flashing my least favorite color, violet.

  “If you could do that before, why didn’t you say so, numbnuts,” said Roy rolling his eyes.

  “I’ve been practicing to keep us on Sapherine and I managed it otherwise we’d be in another realm with blue people who eat humans,” said Benny smiling.

  I shivered. “We don’t want that,” I muttered imagining me running from blue savages and then the savages turned into pterodactyls and crying children. I sighed and rubbed my eyes. Somehow, someway, I had to get those children free.

  “What if I contacted Jonah somehow and asked him for some runes?” I asked, smiling.

  “What? And make him aware that his dad has us imprisoned in his room like a whore?” Roy muttered.

  “Leave the poor guy alone. He has his own problems,” said Siren.

  “I con...agree.”

  “Yeah, me too.”

  “Strength, you don’t like the guy. Your vote doesn’t count on account of bigotry,” muttered Jack.

  Roy and Mark snickered.

  I shook my head. “Fine,” I said.

  “We’ll get out, Myra,” said Maryanne, glowing gold. The others glowed their perspective colors and it hit me.

  “Let’s blow the wall and use the shadows to hide while Benny transports us away,” I said and the voices grinned.

  “Alright! Let’s do that then,” said Roy smirking.

  I faded to reality and smirked. Okay, guys hit me! I closed my eyes and gritted my teeth as waves of power flowed from me and into the brick wall. Little by little it began to crack under the pressure until the thing blew to pieces. Immediately I phazed into the shadows and made my way out of the room. I turned to the dresser and smirked. Capture me will you? I grabbed the necklaces and ran from the room to my cell. They wouldn’t look there. Moving in the shadows, everything was monochromatic. I raced down the stairs as Gale and a few guards raced up to his room.

  They were wide enough for both of us to pass through. Gale stopped halfway and looked around him and I remembered he could feel the air currents around him. I sent a gust of wind out to make it seem as if the wind he felt by my passing was a breeze. He kept moving up the stairs and I kept moving own letting the breeze cover my movements. As soon as I was passed him I flew down two hallways and down familiar stairs to my cell. I stopped halfway when I noticed that Aithne was there questioning the guard.

  “Where is she?” she asked.

  “The king asked me to bring her to his room,” he said.

  “Hm, imbecile,” she muttered and incinerated him.

  I gasped and took a step back. I turned around and began to ascend the stairs but Aithne was faster and yanked my hair. I cried and lost my invisibility.

  “Nice try. But I can see through shadows or have you forgotten my amulet? Medina improved it now your powers really don’t work,” she said smirking. I struggled in her hold. I gasped as my power began building again and a violet beam hit Aithne, blasting her away. I began to glow violet then everything became too bright and I threw a hand against my eyes. I heard Aithne’s screams. Then I felt myself burst into light and begin to travel down a tether.

  Benny: Hold on!

  The ride was like riding Mr Freeze at Six Flags! I was spun forwards and backward until finally, I landed on something soft and the light faded. I looked around. I was in a room full of cages. I felt arms tighten around me and glanced at Jonah’s smiling face.

  “Um,” I said blushing.

  “So you did get out, My, but you might want to get off me,” said Jonah.

  I blushed harder and scrambled to my feet helping him up. I glanced at the others who were as surprised to see me.

  “Just where the hell did you come from!” Yelled a brown haired male as he pointed his gun at me.

  Mark: out of the pan and into the fire

  Strength: At least we’re away from the goon squad

  Jessica: I’m not sure this is better

  Roy: It is and we have the necklaces hehe

  Maryanne: I’m not sure we should give those to Jonah and Datha.

  Siren: Why not it’s theirs?

  Jack: Some things are better not being known

  Benny: I think they should know this though

  Preacher: I agree

  We might do more damage than good

  I smiled as non-threatening as possible.

  “I’m human really,” I said and Jonah laughed. For the first time in almost two weeks, I felt safe again.