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Lexi’s taunting smile deepened when Vicky didn’t even put up a fight. She really was all bark with no bite. The bat pointed at her was easily pushed to the side. Pathetic. But this was why she was Lexi’s favourite victim. Even her lack of reaction was a reaction. There was nothing more entertaining. 

Her eyes lazily moved to Kari as she started going through a bunch of bullshit she didn’t care about, before trying to emulate their lame teachers with an even lamer whiteboard. Lexi wasn’t particularly interested in all this nonsense about fixing Cornell. It wasn’t anymore of a shithole than it had been before all the magic fuckery started. 

Tuyen’s head was lowered, trying not to think about the one-eyed crow that was probably not real. She glanced up. It was gone. Another hallucination. It wasn’t the Shadow’s normal style, and didn’t dig deep into her- but it shook her in a different way. It meant she couldn’t trust anything during this meeting. Anything she heard could be changed by it. 

Porter sitting right in front of her offered a distraction at least, and she hesitantly patted his head. When there was no rejection, she continued, the feeling of his thick fur underneath her fingers helping calm her down. It made it easy to keep up her happy face, pretending the only things that weren’t fine for her were the issues with the town.

Tommy had a lot to say, and she listened carefully. Some of it she already knew, some of it wasn’t relevant to her- she had no magic, and she hadn’t had any dead speak to her. [color=9777bd][i]How nice that would be. If I got magic, I could’ve spoken to my parents.[/i][/color] 

She’d noticed the streets being weird, though hadn’t paid much attention to it whenever she walked home from work. Thanks to the Shadow she saw so much, she couldn’t trust what she saw in the same way others could. Lingering and looking for too long was asking for trouble. Other Cornells sounded crazy- but everything had gone crazy. But if that was the case, how had her aunt and uncle gotten back without any problems? Was it that people couldn’t leave, but they could come back?

[color=b13a3a]”The magic pattern’s genetic, Timmy. Don’t need a thousand word essay to say that,”[/color] Lexi rolled her eyes when he finally stopped going on and [i]on[/i]. He made Kari’s speech look riveting in comparison. [color=b13a3a]”Relative’s get something similar. Dunno how many categories, don’t care, but my sister can see ghosts, and I can bring back dead animals. [i]Necromancy.[/i] Mystery solved.”[/color] 

[color=9777bd]”I can’t speak about magic,”[/color] Tuyen spoke up, acting as if Lexi cutting her off earlier hadn’t completely knocked her confidence. But she didn’t have much in the first place… Keeping up the act was more important. Normally that meant completely blending into the background, or into Vicky’s shadow. Not many people noticed her. But Tommy had mentioned her by name, so she felt she had to say something. [color=9777bd]”But being able to see it doesn’t depend on having it. I can see Tommy’s summons even without it… And maybe it’s why the monster in the warehouse was invisible at first. Suddenly I could see it, and I’ve been able to see magic since.”[/color] 

She smiled at Tommy, before continuing. [color=9777bd]”Also, people can come back to Cornell even if they can’t leave. My aunt and uncle came back a couple of days ago… Though I don’t know how relevant that is.”[/color] 

All boring shit to Lexi. She didn’t care if people could come back in- once she left she wouldn’t be. Not being able to leave was a much worse problem, but she didn’t know anymore than Tommy did. Just that her sister had kindled right before and saved herself from the fate of wandering around forever.

[color=b13a3a]”The freaky furry in the warehouse, the thing leader nerd [i]said[/i] to start with,”[/color] Lexi side eyed Tommy and Tuyen, [color=b13a3a]”wasn’t just a bloodthirsty, ugly fucker. It seemed more interested in me and Justice Man than anyone running, cause I didn’t run and he tried to put up a fight.”[/color]