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and Mariana
are. I am a werewolf," TS announced.
    This couldn’t be happening. They weren't
joking. It was real. TS was a werewolf, Dani was a water elemental,
Mariana was a mermaid, and I...I was a witch.
    "You alright?" Thomas asked softly. "I know
it’s a lot to accept."
    "It can’t be real…"
    "Well, that was the best proof I had," TS
laughed.
    "You saw me fall off the ship," Dani said.
"Look at my eyes." He leaned forward and I could see different
blues in them gently moving. Like ebbing and flowing water. "Have
you ever seen a human with eyes like this?"
    "No..." I said weakly. "You're really...not
human?"
    "I already told you, I’m a water elemental,"
Dani laughed. "A lot of magics like me look almost human. There's
nothing odd about me to a non-magic, they see black hair and blue
eyes. But, obviously, that's not right."
    His hair almost looked black, but had a
definite blue tint and his eyes were still merrily swirling. He
really wasn't human.
    "But…" My head was reeling. I tried to make
sense of it all and kept going over everything I’d seen in movies
about wizards and werewolves and mermaids. "It’s not a full moon
tonight," was the only thing I thought of saying.
    TS laughed and for the first time his tongue
poking out reminded me of a dog instead of just looking odd.
"That’s movie stuff. I can turn into a wolf any time between sunset
and sunrise."
    "But not during the day?" I asked.
    He shook his head. "I’m just a regular human
during the day. I look human right now, but I'm not."
    I nodded. This was still too much to take in.
"So...why are you here?"
    "We're taking a cruise," Thomas laughed. "We
uh..."
    "Pulled some strings," TS added.
    "Since MES pays for college credit we worked
a free cruise out of them," Thomas said.
    They laughed and then fell silent. I sat
quietly for a moment and they all seemed content to let me think.
Part of me still felt like they were about to say it was all a big
joke, but amazingly, I knew it wasn’t. All the things I had seen,
the conversations I had overheard. It all made sense. I couldn't
believe this was happening.
    "By the way, Jon is looking into getting you
a wand," Thomas said to me.
    My jaw dropped. "A wand ? Like a magic
wand?"
    "Exactly," he laughed. "You are a witch after
all. I'll teach you a few spells, get you started." There was
something slightly off about his smile. He glanced at TS, who
nudged Thomas' knee with his. Thomas flashed him a different,
almost sad smile and then turned back to me. "If you stop by
tomorrow night, I should have a wand for you."
    "Ok," I said.
    There was a knock on the door and TS went to
open it. Charlie followed him back into the room and stared at me
in obvious confusion.
    "Jen, what a surprise." He looked at Dani and
frowned. I realized that he didn't know that I was, apparently, a
witch. He must have expected my memory to be erased by now. There
wasn't enough room on the bed with Dani, Thomas, and TS, but it
seemed that Charlie wanted to sit across from me too. He ended up
sitting mostly on Dani's lap and looked at me curiously.
    "Get off! You smell horrible," Dani cried,
leaning away from him. "What have you been doing?"
    "Sauna. Why is uh..." He glanced at me.
    "Charlie, here," Dani said to me, "is a fire
elemental."
    "Danio!" Charlie gasped.
    "It's ok," Thomas snickered. "She's a
witch."
    "What?" Charlie looked at me in shock. I
could see orange and red sparks flying in his eyes. A fire
elemental. That meant that the streaks in his hair probably weren't
dyed in, just like Dani's was really blue.
    "It's news to me too," I told him.
    "Toasty," Charlie laughed. "She get missed or
something?"
    "Seems that way," Thomas answered. "Lucky we
found her, she's almost too old."
    "Well, then," Charlie said, before I could
ask what that meant, "I am indeed a fire elemental. An imp, in
fact." He laughed. "Probably the only kind you'd enjoy running in
to." He snapped his fingers and a flame appeared on his palm. He
closed his fist