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an eyebrow, as if to say who the
hell are you.  Suddenly I was filled with an overwhelming rage, such that I
couldn’t even see straight.  I was in shock at the strength of the fury raging
through me, and it felt a lot like being set on fire.  I gathered fire and air
in my mindless rage, as much of it as I could and sent it at him in a torrent
of destruction that would have ripped apart the stone wall behind him if it had
hit.
    His shield simply ate it, and I screamed in rage and started
to build another one, as he raised fire to send at me.  I felt two little
cooling hands against my cheek, and the rage fell flat, and I was filled with
dread.  I hadn’t even noticed, but somehow he’d gotten through my shields like
they weren’t even there, and had manipulated my emotions, making me angry and stupid
enough to get myself and everyone else killed.
    He launched the fire at me, and I jumped straight up,
letting the wind carry me and Sierra a hundred feet straight up in a second at
the same time as I released the futile storm of fire and air I’d gathered.  He
looked up at me and growled in annoyance.  Then he launched fire at Diana, in
my panic of the remembered vision of her turning to ash, I surrounded Ceara,
Diana, Sierra, and myself with power, and took us to my office, fleeing the
fight. 
    Ceara growled at me, “What the hell!”
    I frowned, “It was a trap, and we were off balance, and
outclassed.  We’ll get them both, just not right now.”
    Diana looked shaken, “Do you think they can track us?”
    I shook my head, “I doubt it, unless he can sense my magic
from miles away.  Looks like you were set up though, I’m thinking the whole
reason Christopher is here, is to take out the council itself, and he hired a
bad ass fire sorcerer to help.  The reason I came was I saw you both burned to
ash, so… your welcome,” I added a little angrily at Ceara, who was still
pissed.
    Ceara took a deep breath and nodded briskly.  She still
looked angry as hell, but I didn’t get the sense she wanted to tear my throat
out anymore.  Yay for small favors.
    “Will you return with us, we must discuss it with Alexios
and Charis.”
    I nodded reluctantly, and looked at Sierra with a question
in my eyes, I wasn’t sure if she’d want to come or not. 
    She said, “Go ahead, I’ll be at the apartment, I have no
wish to meet the rest of the council.”
    She kissed me then, a little more thoroughly than was
warranted, and I wondered if she was sending Diana a message by doing it…
     

Chapter 7
    Thursday, June 2 nd , 2016, 8:12 PM
    Most of my interactions with the council over the last nine
months have been through Diana.  Ceara was kind of alien, and her aura was
insanely strong, so much so that her good looks just didn’t matter in the
least, but at least Ceara seemed to have a sense of emotions, a small
connection back to her humanity.  Alexios and Charis were another few centuries
older than Ceara, and they had that same powerful aura going, but they felt
colder as well, as if all that were left to them was cold calculation.
    I wasn’t looking forward to being in their presence again. 
I raised a shield of fire and air.  I’d have to look at it later and see why it
had failed earlier, but I was fairly sure if the council decided to kill me
they wouldn’t get through it.
    When we arrived in the conference room, with a Ceara that
had finally calmed down, Alexios was waiting for us in a dark pinstriped suit
with a yellow tie.  Charis was also there in a skirt and loose blouse, she was
cute, and petite, and absolutely terrifying.
    I had no doubt if I wanted to I could kill one of them, but
I also had no doubt they could kill me if they chose, which is why I had the
shield up.  That made these little face to face meetings tense.  I knew they
wanted me around for my power if they could trust me to work for them, and not
against them.  I also knew if they ever decided I could no longer be trusted,
they