As Layla and Luka walked, she wondered how she got a detention in the first week with Luka but first she needed a stop at the infirmary. Layla found out extremely late that Luka and James had a reputation and not a good one there were known for a bit of rule breaking. What surprised Layla was the fact Lorenzo was also part of their mischief.
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"Lorenzo come on" Luka whisper yelled
"I told you we shouldn't do this," Lorenzo replied. Somehow from what the group had said they got the idea from their roommate that snuck out to his friend's dorm all the time. So, there they were whispering in the dark to towards the boy's dorm after curfew.
"Really sucks Lorenzo can't just teleport us there" Luka said. By the time they were halfway to the boy's dorm they heard a cough down the hall just before the teacher walked down the hall Lorenzo grabbed the closest figure to them and disappeared. Panic filled Layla as she threw herself to what she thought was a classroom.
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She found out the hard way that it was the stairs and now was just outside of the infirmary with pounding headache and a cold wet cloth pressed to the side of forehead before hearing shushed voices through the cracked door.
"Another one," the female voice of the principal said
"Yep" a deep calming male voice replied
"Who is it this time" she said quieter like she knew someone was listening
"Lord Shiva" he said matching her causing the two to lean closer
"Same state"
"Yep, one clean cut on the neck through the internal jugular vein"
"That make six"
"They really should put more people on thing instead of trying to hide this"
"That is not our business Dr Lost"
every time they talked, they got quieter like it was some weird competition that was the last thing the teachers said before the two leaned in too much and them toppled over into the room
"Hi Headmaster," Luka and Layla said at the same time "and doc," Luka adding to the end startling the teacher.
"Did you hear anything," principal Luna asked
"Nope not a word" Layla said quickly seeing the teacher shoulders slump
"So, what happened to you kids?" a middle-aged man asked he stood tall from his good posher even though he was quite short; he had messy black hair with faded purple eyes and matching purple marking like Lorenzo's that suck out from his olive skin.
"We just fell down the stairs," Luka replied "we just something for her head and maybe some bandages for my knee" looking down to his bruised and blood knees causing Layla to fill with guilt again
"Come sit down" he responded as the principal left leaving them in awkward silences. looking around at the pure white room. watching as Dr Lost picking some herbs before crushing them into a discussing looking paste. Waking her he removed the cloth she had pressed to her head. before wiping it with what she could guess was an alcohol wipe causing her to hiss in pain before he adds the paste and adding the band aid
washing his hands before wiping Luka's and adding some band aids
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For that week that was the one conversation was all they talked about. making Lorenzo teleport them to the treehouse every afternoon since. Coming up with weird and wild theories. They made their personal mission to find out what was going on. covering the floor with ripped out pages of the paper. Witch was hard as like what the teachers said they were really trying to cover up the murders. But from what the group found out the people kill were lord and very well-known hate and love cross the magical world. meaning it was ridiculously hard to cover up their death completely. but still didn't have enough for a solid theory all of them were loose dead ends.
Layla thought it was a bit of a waste of time as all the lords had way too many enemies and the group of twelve-year old's and their one thirteen-year-old had very little information to solve the case. There were just too many deaths and somber news to search through. As the number of murders, missing people and just over all death they read in the paper was enough to for Layla to find out she joined this magic new world in at one of the worst times as it was in its dark age with magical diseases at the peak. piecing that all the men were rich old white men, and a lot of half breeds accused with crimes and seem to have the highest death rate. while lots of women went missing.
This droves the rest of the group crazy. Well, most of the group Lorenzo never seemed to care, only coming after they begged to sleep or if the group was lucky Lorenzo did something. Like today while the group made more half piece theories Layla watched Lorenzo bake cookies by James's request.
"It has to be some woman that got sick of him. They have the motive the Lord's killed were all rich old white men with power and a strong and very public belief for the inferiority of women," James was saying
"Nah couldn't be women weren't invited to most of his parties and when they were there, he never talked to them. I think it's just some group of psychos they all pissed off," Luka said "What you think Lorenzo you've been quiet,"
"Honestly I think it's the missing half-breed though James is probably right to have more female, as most of the missing half-breeds were teenage women" Lorenzo said
"Including the missing people, it a bit of a stretch Enzo," James said and Layla thinking the missing people are include was too much of a stretch Lorenzo shrugged and continued baking
"Yeah, plus half-breeds go missing all the time," Luka said causing Layla's curiosity to spike
Why?" Layla asked
"Cuz they're an easy target because their considered less of a priority," James spoke in for Luka.
"No were an easy target because they don't like us, you know who much back lash-" Lorenzo was saying but Luka cut them off
"Okay Back to the murder" Layla was still confused
"Okay one question before the murder" Layla was going to say but she heard a sigh and saw the boys tense up making her pause 'okay no more questions last one'
"What is it?" James asked
"what's a half breed?" she asked causing the atmosphere to even tenser
"Me" Lorenzo jumped in saying it in a bitter voice 'touchy subject' she thought 'don't bring it up after this'
"You?" Layla asked
"a half human half magical being like Enzo or you roommate. What's her name?" James ended up cutting in
"Artemis" she answered before the room when quiet again leaving her with her thoughts and so many questions
Petunia symbolizes intense bitterness, rage, and unhappiness despite their beautiful attractiveness. Petunia is, in fact, associated with anger in floral language.