the Earthly plane. It’s always
been there, Kay. You just never looked for it because you didn’t
know to.”
I nodded, starting to understand, but
still disturbed. “So, does it work the same way on Earth as it does
on Turgor?”
“ Yes,” Rena nodded. “Once
you have brought it to materialization on the plane you want it, it
is Awakened. Its purpose can now start to be fulfilled.”
My head was starting to hurt. “So, I’m
not crazy?”
“ No one said that,” Nia
chuckled. I stuck out my tongue at her. “We’re just saying that on
the whole Turgor/Earth front, you’re asking valid
questions.”
I took a deep breath. It seemed like
wherever I went, science class was never far behind me.
“ What are we going to do
now?” I asked. It was getting darker outside, and I wanted to
continued shopping. Rena and I, however, had homework to
do.
Nia must have read my mind. “Go home,
sis. I’ve got a lot of work to do before going back to Earth.
Aren’t you guys supposed to be figuring out how to Awaken the Death
Walker?”
“ Yeah,” Rena and I both
answered. Neither one of us was excited for our task at hand. Nia
laughed, laying a few gold coins on the table, and we headed out
into the night.
CHAPTER SEVEN
“ How was school?” Dia
quizzed me as soon as I woke up.
“ Very boring, considering,”
I muttered, rolling off the couch with a thud. I rubbed my eyes and
squinted as I heard singing coming from upstairs.
“ It’s Rena,” Dia informed
me. “She’s taking a shower. Mrs. Spelling dropped off her bags this
morning.” I nodded and yawned. “Nia wanted me to tell you that
she’s on her way over. So—”
“ Already here, Dia,” Nia
replied, walking out of the kitchen. “Just got here,
actually.”
“ It’s creepy the way you do
that,” I threw at her.
“ And it’s horrible the way
your breath smells,” she threw back. I grinned, yawned again, and
staggered up to the bathroom.
“ Hey, Kay,” Rena said,
passing me on the way up and looking super chipper. I grumbled a
good morning and went into the bathroom. When I came back
downstairs there was a hot breakfast on the table and Nia, Rena,
and Dia were in a heated argument about something.
“ I can’t believe she was in
your group!” Nia almost yelled around a mouthful of eggs. “I hate
her!”
“ It’s not nice to say hate,
Nia,” Dia scolded. “I’m sure she’s just misunderstood.”
“ No, she’s not. She called
me out on being an orphan,” Rena tossed in, grabbing a piece of
toast.
“ She what?”
“ I know,” Rena said, biting
her toast. “But that’s okay. I know who I am, and that’s the
important part.”
I cleared my throat and sat down next
to Nia. “What’s going?”
“ We’re talking about little
Ms. Erika Williams, the wizard,” Nia said, chewing on a piece of
fried ham. “Rena told me how she’s in your group.”
“ Yeah, what was up with the
whole ‘I know your sister and you’ thing?” I frowned and glanced at
Nia before pouring a cup of orange juice. “Is there something I
don’t know?”
Nia sighed. “Well, you know I’m a
Creator, right?”
“ No,” I replied
sarcastically. “Really?”
Nia ignored me. “And you’re an
Awakener. Grandpa Lamont’s an historian partly because of us. We’re
part of a legend, if you will.”
“ A legend?” I echoed,
skeptical. “What, like slaying the dragons or
something?”
“ Sort of. We’re supposed to
be the messiahs or something for this planet. That’s what people
believe.”
“ It’s farfetched, I know,”
Nia admitted, twitching her eyebrows. “That’s the thing with
legends. You never really know.”
“ Well,” Rena jumped in, “You
could always just ask your grandpa.” Nia and I looked at her. “I
mean, if he spent a great deal of his life researching whether or
not the legend is true, he’s probably got more information than
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