Fire And Ice

Chapter 21 - Who Says Magic Solutions Aren't Real?

Natalia's P. O. V

"Thanks." I waved at the men as they got into their van. One waved back as they drove off.

Smiling, I returned to my room. Three days ago, I'd attempted to find the members of one of the packs on the list. That had proved difficult since I had nothing to go on but the name of the pack so I'd decided to set up an internet broadband to aid my search.

It was my job to find members of the disbanded packs on the list and make allies of the low ranking ones. After that, I'd create my own pack and we'd lay low, silently gaining other allies and climbing up the ranks before confronting the Lightwood pack.

Kirstin was the intel, I was the force. And I was going to make us one to be reckoned with.

I just wished she'd added the location of the packs to her intel. I hadn't thought about it at the time but I really needed a way to contact her. I couldn't waltz back into the Lightwood territory to talk to her and I didn't know how to contact her friend, Danny, to get him to contact her for me.

I'd just have to remember to set up a mode of communication with her next time we met. That was one of the few things I needed to talk to her about.

I sat at my new laptop and googled Killdrain. I didn't really expect to find anything. I doubted people wrote articles on getting excruciating migraines when they step into the premises of the most prestigious college in the world.

After an hour of searching, I concluded that I'd been right not to get my hopes up so I switched to searching for the packs on the list but that was also a dead end. I got up and stretched out two hours of sitting at a desk and achieving nothing.

'I'm hungry.' Candy yawned, having woken from her nap.

'Me too. I think I'll make granola bars.' I left the library and made my way to the kitchen. I took the ingredients I needed out and looked over them.

'Something's missing.'

'What is it?' asked Candy.

I scanned my eyes over the ingredients again, 'I'm missing honey, raisins and chocolate chips.'

'Can't you make it without them?'

I ran to my room and shrugged on my flame jacket over my red spaghetti top, pocketing my wallet in the back of my black jean skirt, 'I could but I want to run.'

'Just be careful.' She warned.

I slid into my shoes and left my house, locking it behind me, 'Yeah, yeah. I know.'

I took off, speeding to my usual grocery store. Following my routine, I ran into the alley next to the building before walking into the store, picking a basket on my way in. Humming along to the song lowly playing in the background, I scanned the shelves for the things I needed. Fifteen minutes later, I had everything I came for, plus a few things I thought I might need later and made my way to the checkout till.

I handed the bored looking twenty-something-year-old lady my purchases and she scanned them.

'What are we gonna do about Killdrain. The search is obviously going nowhere.' Candy asked as I handed her the last item.

"That'll be fifty dollars."

I handed her the bill, 'I don't know. It'd be great if we could go there without almost blacking out.'