It was around noon when I got dropped off in front of our house. Thena was the first to see me being escorted out of an obvious High Council car.
“What happened? Are you okay?” she asked, rushing to my side and glaring at Agent Leigh who only raised an eyebrow at her before taking his leave. It was a good thing that they had allowed me to wash my hair and provided me a jacket and pants to change in. The bandaged wounds weren’t visible because of the clothes, but the small scratches and that one wound that required a stitch on my face were pretty obvious.
“Sorry,” I chuckled sheepishly, subconsciously touching the stitch on my face. “I should’ve told you I couldn’t go to school today. I was, uh, busy. Are my parents gone?”
“They left for work as usual. But your brother’s home,” Thena re
