A Changling In Our Mists

     After the speech, all of students started to talk to each other out in the halls. I noticed the girl that stood up for me walking with one of her friends.


Eloise's POV


     When the rally was over, me and my friend, Alice, started walking down the hall.


     "So, you actually stood up for a changling," Alice told me.


     "He's not a changling, he would of killed us by now," I answered.


     "How do you know that, hmm," she asked while stopping my tracks.


     "Ali, he was human. Heck, he is human. Just think of it like a coat of paint. He's a human with a troll layer," I explained to Ali.


     "Fine, you tell him that," she walks off as I give a confusing look.


     "Him?" I turn around to find myself running into someone. It was him.


Back To Jim


     She bumps into me as her friend walks away. She gave me a shocking face.


     "James, I mean. Hello. How are you?" She confused herself.


     "Thank you for doing that, Changling," she froze. I walk to the other side of her for we're side by side.


     "So, you caught on to what I meant," she quietly told me.


     "But what I don't understand is that I thought NotEnrecea collected all the younglings. Shouldn't you should be in your troll form?" I asked her.


     "I will tell you later. Meet me in front of Strickler's office after school," she then walks off to her next class.


    I turn my head as she walks on.


Later on that day....


     "She's a Changling! Didn't NotEnrecea collected the babies with Chompsky?" Toby asked in a shocking manner. We're sitting together in Strickler's old classroom while we wait for the rest of team. They're going through they're own path under the school where I saw a figure in the boys locker room when I found the amulet.


     "Well it's obvious that we need her to give herself up for we can get her other half. Or maybe she's the one who hid her halfling," Claire said as she jumped to multiple conclusions.


     "No, no. Eloise wanted me to meet her later. Maybe she'll tell me why her other half is still in the Dark Lands. And maybe who else is still a Changling," I tell the group.


     "What if it's a trap?" Claire asked.


     "If it's is, um," I pause and think about it. "Claire, do you have the Morris code button on you?" I ask.


     "I do, but I why do need it exactly?" Claire asks as she pulls it out of her Papa Skull backpack.


     "It got me thinking that, since nobody really doesn't know Morris Code-"


          "Except one," Toby coughed as he interrupted.


     "As I was saying, Claire will have receiver and I will have the sender. One blink means I'm okay, second means I'm in danger," I continued.


     "No blinks?" Claire asked with worried tone her voice.


     "I haven't answered," I answered. All I know, it can go both ways. I haven't answered because I forgot or I'm dead.


     The final bell rings.


     "That's my signal," I say as I walk over to Claire. She had her right arm gripping her left. "I will be okay," I tell Claire. She nods and we both give each other a goodbye kiss. But I know I will come back alive.

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