Love Poison No Cure Needed

Stealth Prep 3.16

“Right, so you have one week before the competition. I have just the final training for you. If you pass you can relax till the competition date. If you fail well. Hehe.” Dr Alfair smirked as he made his comment.

Sorrel c****d his head as he looked the teacher over. He seemed to take entirely to much pleasure in attempting to torture his students. Or at least that’s what the other students tended to complain about. Sorrel felt a little bad for him though since he started the competition training since his means only really worked on Blaine. 

Kayad straight up didn’t care. In fact he tended to just casually beat expectations. Sorrel on the other hand had just enjoyed the challenges. Though he hadn’t figured out what the difficulty was supposed to be in staying in a forest area over night was. Just because you didn’t have a tent and food or water it’s not like there wasn’t plenty to eat.

“This time you're going to try and sneak into a friend of mine’s club. They're normal’s so you can’t show off your otherness. Also they’re sensitive so they are likely to go alert at your use of magic. But otherwise, it should be easy,” Dr Alfair continued. “here is the address, and you have two hours. Good luck.” He showed us a map with a place marked and then vanished.

“Tch, how uselessly melodramatic. It’s just a bunch of humans,” Blaine sneered. He turned his head and looked provocatively at Kayad. “Of course the top scorer won’t have a problem as long as you don’t get final exam jitters.” Blaine turned away and left.

“Huh?” Sorrel wondered aloud as he turned back to Kayad.

“It's nothing. He’s just making a snide comment about me skipping class and failing last year,” Kayad replied blandly. “More importantly it seems that this location is a bit familiar.”

“is it?” Sorrel looked at the copy of the map on his phone but really couldn’t tell if the place was familiar or not.

“It should be. Since we dropped some bikes off there the other day.” Kayad laughed as he made the reminder.

“Oh? That’s Throttle and Co’s clubhouse? Huh so that’s where it is on a map. Why do human cities have to be so complicated.” Sorrel shook his head and put his phone away. “I guess we are going to stop by for another visit.” Sorrel was pleased that he was going somewhere he’d already been so he wouldn’t need the navigation system. 

It always made him nervous with how it gave directions. As if he could tell distance that precisely while driving. He’d lost count of how many times he’d taken a wrong turn or just been in the wrong lane cause there was something that the damn thing didn’t mention about this road or that road.

“Yes, though since we will be sneaking in. The point will be for them to not notice.” Kayad frowned and Sorrel nodded it was true that the goal was to be stealthy so it was best not to be seen. 

“It will probably be easiest if we just knock them all out. When the last one is unconscious we will win.”

“Ah? But then we won’t be able to talk to them when we finish?” Sorrel had walked over to his bike and paused in the middle of putting his helmet on to turn back to Kayad.

“Precisely.” Kayad swung onto his own bike as he pulled his helmet on. There was a strange inflection in Kayad’s tone that Sorrel couldn’t interpret. It seemed almost like pleasure but kind of like annoyance.

Before Sorrel could pursue the issue though Kayad started his bike and headed off. Sorrel blinked twice before he finished putting his helmet on and then started after him.

They drove their bikes till two blocks from the club house where they entered an underground car park and parked their bikes. 

“So co-op or combative?” Sorrel asked as he tucked his helmet away. He was pleased with himself for being able to include the new terms he’d learned playing games with Ella, Simon and Jasper. He waited for a moment to see if Kayad would laugh. Jasper always laughed when he used terms as if he was always using them wrong.

“Hmm, how do you want to go in?” Kayad crossed his arms and tapped a foot as he leant against his bike.

“I think pure stealth. I don’t want to accidentally hurt anyone.” Sorrel patted his hands. All the information he’d been told at school suggested that humans were really, really fragile. Plus Jasper had told him that he’d still been too heavy handed when he’d first taken out Simon.

“It will be fine, I’ll be careful. Particularly careful that they won’t wake up, at least for a while,” Kayad started off as a reassurance but then turned to a mutter at the end. Sorrel widened his eyes at the end comment and started shaking his head.

“It's fine, I won’t do permanent damage.” Kayad shrugged and then started to turn away.

“Let's be combative. When one of us finishes the other has to stop.” Sorrel offered.

“Hmm, sure,” Kayad responded absently. Sorrel nodded and then immediately pulled up his nature sight before scaling the wall and then calculating distances.

Magic sensitivity triggered for active spells in a wider range then passive and the more you tried to do with a magic the higher its signal. Combined with the fact that without an obvious reason humans had a horrible tendency to just not look up. If they didn’t they wouldn’t walk into the lower limbs of his kin so much.

Though they could be equally bad at not looking down thus tripping over roots as easily. As Sorrel looked around he smirked. How nice. The key building between the carpark and the clubhouse had one of those lovely rooftop gardens.