"Where are you headed?" Dustin closed the door behind him. His hair was still wet from his recent shower, drops falling down his sexy bare chest.
"I have to go to the registers office and drop that awful English class." I put my phone on silent and stuffed it in my back pocket.
"Want me to go with you?" He pulled a shirt over his head, effectively ending my ogling of his beautiful form.
"It's okay. I know you need to work on that paper. I won't be long." I reached up and planted a kiss on his cheek.
He gave me a curious look as I walked out the door.
My pulse was steadily rising as the nervousness built in my stomach. So many questions and so few answers. I was running blind. I had no idea what was happening to me, but I wasn't myself anymore. Super human traits. Visual disturbances. I almost expected the men in white coats to show up with a nice straight jacket for me. Maybe a permanent Thorazine drip. Either way, I was in trouble.
The sky was overcast as I made my way across the campus. My hair flapped around me as the wind began to pick up. By the time I reached the registers building, I looked like I had blond cotton candy on my head. I ducked into the bathroom to try and smooth it down with some water. I walked around the corner and came face to face with Victoria, the girl from the coffee shop. To my dismay, she was radiating rainbow prisms.
"Hi! Katie, right?" She smiled at me as she bent to wash her hands in the sink. The glow slowly began to fade.
"Um yah, hi." I went to the mirror and surveyed my hair. Good lord! I was sporting a fifties style beehive.
"Looks like the wind is picking up out there. I didn't hear anything about a storm coming," she mused, as she reached into her bag. "I have a brush in here if you want to use it."
"That would be awesome," I replied.
She handed it to me, and I began attempting to untangle the mess.
All the sudden, I was standing in the middle of a field. There were lions and tigers milling around, though it didn't appear that they saw me. They cuddled on one another and wrestled playfully. My heart was racing. Where was I? One of the lions stopped moving and swung his head, his ears perked towards me. He began to walk my way, slowly at first, then faster. I screamed and closed my eyes, dropping the brush. When I opened them, I was standing in front of the mirror.
"Oh, my God, are you okay?" Victoria stared at me with a frightened look.
I reached for the sink to steady myself as my breath came out in gasps. "Yah. I'm sorry. Things have been a little tense for me lately." Understatement of the year.
"I know. We all heard about your "accident"." She made air quotes. "And just FYI, if you ever need any help kicking Anya's ass, you come find me. As far as I'm concerned, its high time someone did something to put her in her place."
I smiled weakly. "Thank you."
She picked up the brush and stuffed it back into her bag. "I'm usually at the coffee shop, if you need anything." She waved and disappeared out the door.
My breathing started to slow. I stared at myself in the mirror. What was happening to me? Dustin hadn't mentioned any of these things when he told me about the Link.
My phone buzzed in my pocket. It was Brian. "Katie?" he asked, when I answered.
"Yah?"
"Can you talk?"
"Yes." I moved to the corner and slid down the wall, pulling my knees to my chest. "What did you find out?"
"It's still kind of confusing, but I asked around and it seems like what you are experiencing are called Auras. It's sort of like a way to tell whether someone is Supernatural or not. Are you seeing them around Dustin or Dani?"
"Yah," I confirmed. "Their glow is green."
"That's definitely it, then. The Auras manifest in the color that is related to the Supernatural's energy. Eternals are green. If you have noticed, all of us have dark green eyes. The Shadowfall have deep grey eyes, so they would probably have an Aura that corresponds, possibly almost black."
"Anya and her friends," I whispered.
"What other colors have you seen?" I heard papers rustling in the background.
"There's a girl in my Art History class and hers was a yellowish gold color."
"Yellowish gold..." Brian murmured to himself. "Oh, okay. She's a werecat. They have yellow eyes, so it makes sense that you would see something in between yellow and gold."
"But Mia had really pretty blue eyes," I stated. "I remember, because they were that kind of blue you don't see very often."
"That's because werecats in mainstream usually wear contacts. If you saw their real eyes, you would know why. Humans don't have eyes like that. Werecat's irises are exactly like that of a feline, waxing and waning according to the amount of light refracting in the pupil."
"Waxing and waning?" I asked, confused.
"Getting bigger and smaller," he supplied. "Are those the only Aura's you've seen?"
I took a minute to reflect. "Um, Dustin's friend Victoria's is multicolored. Kind of like a rainbow of prisms."
"I know Victoria, so I don't have to look that one up. She's a shape shifter. It makes sense that she wouldn't have a stable color, as they change form so often. Most Auras are built from years and years of supernatural energy. Shape shifters are constantly altering that energy."
"Okay, most of that makes sense in a strange, other world way, but there's something crazy weird about my English teacher. She glows bright white, and the glow dissipates, but doesn't go away fully."
He paused. "Did anything odd happen when you were near her?"
"Jesus Brian, everything that happens any more is odd."
"I understand." He actually sounded sympathetic. "But I mean, something completely different from any of the unusual stuff you have been experiencing."
I thought back with a shudder. "When she began to talk, I couldn't understand her. I knew she was speaking words, but they were all jumbled up, like she was talking in another language. I'm sure I was the only one who heard it because no one else in the class seemed fazed."
I heard more papers moving around. Suddenly, Brian gasped. "Katie, listen to me very carefully. Do not go back to that class. I'm going to get some things situated here, then I'm hopping the next flight to Louisiana."
"What is wrong?" I felt my pulse spike. "Is she dangerous?"
"I'm not sure yet," he replied. "But she's a Magic Caster, and what you heard was more than likely a spell she was trying to cast. It could be a harmless spell to keep her students from acting up, or it could be something worse. Either way, I don't want you going near her until I can find out more."
I nodded. "Okay, I was just headed to the registers office to drop that class. I was so weirded out by her that I never want to go in there again."
"Hold off on that. We may need a way to get to her if something bad is going on. Just don't go back to that class until I get there, okay?"
"Okay," I agreed.
"And Katie, stay close to Dustin. I don't know what's going on here, but I can't say for sure that you are a hundred percent safe right now. Don't go anywhere alone. Promise me."
"I promise."
"I'll see you soon." He ended the call.
My heart was racing, and I knew Dustin would be able to feel it. I shoved myself up from the wall and hurried back out through the quad.
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