Isaiah explained everything to them. Well, everything but a few details about his true relationship with Elena. He was wary of what Jenny would think about it. He did not want to lose her just yet, although there was a nagging voice in his head telling him about how he should not care and how she was merely just a side piece to his great quest of the future, irrelevant and inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. He expected Elena to say something about his choice of not telling Jenny, but strangely, she did not seem to care. Luke was the only one who regarded him with a knowing stare as his other two friends looked at him with eyes and mouths agape in shock."You mean all this was going on with you for so long, and we did not know about it?" Jackie asked. "It's been so for the past two months now," Isaiah said, looking away, trying to suppress the urge in him to dismiss it all. "Ever since my car crashed. Ever since I was introduced to my father. Weird things have just been

"And why would I want to do that?" Isaiah asked, feigning shock.Elena narrowed her eyes on him and pulled in closer. Luke stepped back with Isaiah still drenched on his body. "You know yourself. You know yourself far better than I know you. But I also know you far better than you think I do. And I don't think you've given up on your own intentions so easily. You care too much for your friends to do so.""And you make it sound like it's such a bad thing," Isaiah replied, head raised from Luke's shoulders, noting how much the words dripped with disapproval from Isaiah's tongue."Because it could be a really bad thing," she stared poignantly at all his friends.Jenny was in awe of the woman that Elena was. She was incredibly outspoken; she barely masked her words; she said things in the clearest way possible. Despite that, she loathed her for disregarding her and the rest of her friends. There was an air of respect that she had for the woman."Anyway, as you can see," Isaiah continued,

Isaiah tried his best to hide how shocked he was as he continued running. They were moving through space at 360 kilometers per second, which was twice the speed of a running cheetah. From the sky staring down at the forest, they flared through the forest. twisting past trees and burning through grass like colorful flaming ghosts."Where do you think you are going?" Elena asked, her voice ringing through the air in a very high-pitched frequency."If you don't know, then why are you following me?" he replied, also with a question. "Oh, I know..." She replied slyly. "You are about to turn yourself over to those bags of piss that call themselves the regulators of magic. And I am not going to allow you to do that. I am not going to allow you to put a torch to all we've planned. And you know that.""I don't care," he said. This would be the first time he was going to be trying to attack Elena. He twisted, turned around, and made to give her a little spank that would make her fall backward

Isaiah gave no response to the question. Nero shook his head, a bitter smile on his face. "Are you really going to do this to yourself, kid?" He asked. "See, you know what's going to happen now; you will tell me who the person you were with just now is, and you will tell me where they went to. Do that, and you will have your charges and sentence reduced. Do you like that?"Isaiah made no response to that as well. Silently he thought about what Elena would do if she were in his shoes. Would she rat on him? He almost laughed at himself as he imagined Elena telling him that she would never let herself be in his shoes in the first place. She did not have his own special strain of stupid for that."Are you dumb, boy?" Nero roared, but his seeming rage did not reach his eyes. He drove a fist into Isaiah's stomach, making him hurl. "Tell me what I want to know. Tell me now. Do you want to die?""I was under the impression that you would take me prisoner rather than kill me," Isaiah said, hol

"But of course," Elena continued. "If you beg me enough as the man that you are, I could maybe save you from being eaten alive by the bear and be made into one of my loyal kingpins. I like to see a man beg and grovel for his life. Isn't that fair enough for you, my man?" What a dilemma the man was in. Should he beg to be spared by the bear or be put under mind control like his colleagues? This was a situation no man should pray to ever be involved in, he thought. "Are you deaf? Answer me?" Elena yelled at the top of her voice, feeling impatient at the man's slacking. The bear she was in control of roared frightfully at the man, making him cower in fear.If he could, he would dig the earth open and bury himself under just so he could not face such a terrifying beast.Please don't hurt me!" He cried out. "I will do whatever you want me to say. Please. Just don't let it eat me up. I have a wife and family I have to go back home to, please.""What an unimpressive man," Elena commented,