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Chapter Four

The balance

      The sound of a pin dropping would have been as loud as a jet engine in the silence that followed. Kevin's twin was dead; there was only a single member of the water division left. Some claimed water was the most important, as it was easily controlled and extremely powerful. With my limited knowledge of the powers we all possessed, I couldn't say if I believed that.

I light breeze sprang up, even though the windows were closed, and blew across the heads of the students, lifting white flower petals that had come from no where. A silent tribute to the fallen warrior. I wondered slightly if it had been professor Mason's wind, but no, I remembered when he had sprouted the flower from his hand when we had first met. He had the element of earth.

We got up slowly; no one was in the mood to talk to one another. I didn't see Kevin anywhere; he had probably stayed in his own dorm alone now without his brother. It made my heart to ache thinking about it.

The next morning dawned deceptively bright revealing that someone had cleaned up the mess of the previous night. I would have thought it was a dream except I hadn’t slept at all. Much of the grounds were impervious to magical harm due to a spell cast when the school was first built. It hardly showed any signs of the horrors of the night before.  We all rose late and gathered in the auditorium before breakfast.

Carly was still in a state of shock that had me extremely worried. She hadn't spoken a single word since last evening. We all sat subdued in the dim auditorium waiting for someone to do something. I wasn't the first to notice that something was wrong. Teachers were rushing back and forth and whispers were running around that official looking cars were arriving at the front gate.

Finally the ever-calm Mrs. Larson took the stage and said into the microphone, "students there is a situation. Please return to your dormitories. YLs, we require your assistance." There was a collective groan and someone shouted, "You said we would know what happened today!"

"We will have your YLs tell you our position after we have taken care of matters."

I stayed longest in the auditorium trying to get Carly to respond.

She did finally "I just... Didn't want it to happen... Not again..."

Her words were halting.

"It's gunna be okay," I said for what felt like the thousandth time.

I had only known Carly for three days and yet I felt like we were best friends by now. I slowly guided her out the door and led her back to the dorms. I saw Pat go toward the Base and tried to stop her.

"Wait, what's going on?"

She ignored me and pulled the door open. I followed her, only wanting to know what was happening. I pulled open the door to see shear chaos raining. Teachers and other, more official looking people in navy blue and green were rushing around shouting things and delivering documents. I stared in shock at the complete frenzy of the normally well ordered group of people. Then I saw the stretcher. Pushed by two scrub-clad doctors, a freckled, red-haired boy laying on it. I followed the stretcher-bearers into a room full of more shouting adults. The doctors didn't follow us into the room. All four YLs were there too. "Everyone calm down!" Shouted professor Mason.

The room fell silent slowly.

"Do not panic please, Jessica,"

I was startled to hear my name, and then I realized I was the only one standing at the back, right next to the stretcher. It wasn't Trevor at all, I realized with a shock. It was Kevin.
I knew what professor Mason wanted me to do just from his look. I crouched down beside him and brushed his curly red hair out of his eyes. His face was cold and drained of color. I hadn't known Kevin or Trevor, but right then I felt like time had stopped moving. Not both of them, how could it have happened? He was so still and cold, not a single mark on his body.