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still didn’t felt right.
    Ciara, the elected speaker for the elders of the Groves, moved to the center of the room, and called the council meeting to order. “For awhile now we have been hearing rumors about a group of Druids we’ve termed the Dark Grove. The information that we received but we’re unable to verify, was that the leader of that Grove was looking for a spell that would open the Otherworld onto our plane. We have secretly sent several people to find out the truth, only to never hear from them again.”
    “Which is verification in itself,” someone called out, disgruntled, from the crowd.
    Ciara turned and stared at the man who had spoken out. “It contributes to the possibility, but it is not conclusive.”
    “So all the missing people in the south of Ireland, and Brianna here, could be retaliatory, or the beginning of their attacks against us?” a female voice yelled out.
    “It’s a possibility,” said one of the male council members.
    “A possibility?” screeched another woman. “My sister has been missing for weeks, and just now you are telling us this?”
    “Enough sitting around, it’s time we went on the offensive,” Neila declared.
    Liam immediately launched up out of his chair. “And do what? We don’t know who they are or where they are? Without any information, all we’ll be doing is creating chaos and panic.”
    “As opposed to missing and dead? If we had been warned maybe none of this would’ve happened,” Neila retorted with fire in her eyes.
    Liam stepped up and got in Neila’s face. “Are you blaming the council now?”
    Two fireballs burst into Neila’s hands. “Aren’t they to some degree responsible?”
    The sudden spike of powers around me, made me release Alexis’s tightly clinging hand and grasp my head. Since our powers were so tightly tied to our emotions, the sudden explosion of anger and fear was playing havoc with my senses. I could barely hear Alexis quietly asking me what was wrong.
    “Enough,” roared Ciara. “Grady, take the kids to their rooms.”
    With little choice in the matter, we were all herded out. The pain lessened the further from the irate adults I got, but I could still feel the tension that flowed from Alexis. We separated at the top of the stairs and went to our rooms without argument. I knew as soon as Grady went back downstairs, Alexis would sneak back to my room. She’d had trouble sleeping in her room ever since we lost Brianna, so every night she slept in my room then crept back to her own, early in the morning.
    Only a couple minutes passed before she slipped into my room, closing the door behind her. The expression in her eyes scared me. I had never seen her looking so hopeless. I pulled her into my arms, and held her tighter than I ever had before.
    “This could be exactly what the Dark Grove wanted, for us to turn against ourselves in panic. Is this how it will all end?”
    “No,” I promised, but I wondered if she caught the note of uncertainty that I hadn’t been able to hide.

    When the day arrived for Brianna’s ceremony, all of us were worn out from the rollercoaster of emotions. Anger, grief, and a desire for revenge, it felt like a never ending cycle. But what I felt couldn’t compare to Alexis’s emotions. Her intense grief had turned to anger, and the fire in her eyes burned as brightly now as a week ago. I knew from experience that there were no words to make the pain go away, or bring Brianna back.
    Looking in the mirror, I checked the look of the black suit I had to get at the last minute. Normally a Druid passing into the Otherworld was a moment of celebration, but in this case none of us were able to adopt that attitude. Brianna had been too young and innocent, to be destroyed like that. We could only guess that the Dark Grove had lured her away, and then attacked. But why they let her escape, we still didn’t know.
    Sighing, I went to Alexis’s room, she opened the door with a weak smile and let me in.