Root Guardian

"What's next?" Graeme asked Zoe as he came to loom dangerously over her.

"What do you mean?" Zoe asked sweetly.

"Andreas wanted August to have no alyko ability. And then what? Was that it?"

"Quite possibly," she shrugged. "She would no longer be a threat."

August was able to see that Zoe was lying by the way her unusual aura threaded with a streak of deception, and she was about to comment on it. But then her vision became blurred and she stumbled before catching herself against the stone wall.

Graeme rushed over to steady her. "What is it, darling? What's wrong?"

Zoe clicked her tongue. "As you said, she lit up on the map again. What did she do before I arrived?" The young girl had her hands clasped behind her back as leaned forward to study August like a specimen. August's eyes rolled back in her head and she slumped against Graeme.

Before Zoe could get any closer, Sam shoved her in an open cell and closed the door behind her.