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Character Update:
Main Character:
Liev
Age: 18
Lynx Shapeshifter
Hair: Tawny blonde, short.
Eyes: Green.
Height: 6'0.
Build: Lean, broad shouldered.
Personality: Outgoing, Playful, Passionate.
Damien
Lamia (Born Vampire)
Age: 18
Hair: Black, collar length.
Eyes: Dark Blue.
Height: 6'4
Build: Like a boxer.
Personality: Charismatic, Disciplined, Witty.
Tien
Witch
Age: 18
Hair: Auburn, wavy, waist length.
Eyes: Violet.
Height: 5'6
Build: Slight, slender.
Personality: Outgoing, Extroverted, Energetic.
Chayton (Chay)
Gyrfalcon Shapeshifter
Age: 18
Hair: White blonde, straight, shoulder length.
Eyes: Dark brown/black.
Height: 6'0
Build: Lean, slim.
Personality: Cold, Proud, Clever, Staunch.
"Alright let's swap all the information we have." Damien said to us later that afternoon.
I dropped down onto the old, cosy green couch that sat in our sitting room as the others picked chairs and made themselves comfortable.
The London team had already been and were on their way back to London. We had just come out of a second meeting with Zach and the four Night Worlders who made up the joint American-English team. Two were Americans and two were English, the two English Daybreakers were younger than us at seventeen and they still attended the London school in question. So they would be our go to people once we joined the same school in a week's time.
We shared around the typed information we had and the photographs we had been given. The target's name was Jason according to the black and white and quite a cute human. He had medium brown hair that had a few blonde highlights in it and he wore it gelled into spikes. His eyes were a warm honey hazel set in a sensitive, intelligent looking open face. His lightly tanned skin wore a slight embarrassed, shy blush. Clearly he didn't like photos and was one who easily blushed.
I felt a wave of fear for him as I contemplated the information we had on him. He looked soft, pampered, sheltered and a bit naive, like prey, and he would be eaten alive if the Night World got to him. I wasn't even sure we Daybreakers wouldn't break him because good guys as we were, we were still Night Worlders.
"Our possible Wild Power is average height, average build and is seventeen. He is English, born and bred in London. He's lived there all his life. He is an only child and his parents are as human as he appears to be. The mother Ivy is a nurse and the father Jeffrey is a lawyer." Damien summed up our information.
"He's considered a prodigy in the music world. He could play the piano and violin to an advanced level by the time he was 6 and now should be playing on the world stage. He writes a bit of his own music as well. He is top of his school in mathematics as quite often happens with someone who has a natural ability with music." I added to Damien's information.
"He is on the school's track team and has some top times in their long distance running events. He is quite good with photography it's what he wants to do with his life, be an animal photographer for National Geographic. At the moment he's the photographer for the school newspaper and works part-time in a photography store." I continued with what I had been able to gather from Alicia, one of the English team members.
"He's the same age as the other two Wild Powers and I was able to find out that while he is human he may be one of us, a lost witch." Tien offered as he fiddled with a lock of his hair.
"Where did you find that out?" Damien wanted to know.
"Spoke to my mother. She recognised his mother's maiden name; his maternal grandmother was a lost witch. So it might have bred through to him and the circumstances of his birth match those of the other Wild Powers." He returned.
Damien gave him a thoughtful look and I knew what he was thinking. Lost witch was the term we used for a human with witch blood with no knowledge of what he or she is. In the past few years more lost witches have been turning up and waking up to what they are, one of us. This can be through an accident or being found by one of us and pulled into the Night World. But many we left alone and they stayed unaware of what they were. But we knew who the lost witches were the Night World kept a watch on them.
"I'm not sure about his being a lost witch." I put in. "He might be an Old Soul though, which would explain the genius status he has and his tendency towards being a loner."
"I think my mother may be right though. She is pretty good with witch genealogies and there is still room in the prophecy for one of our Wild Powers to be a witch." Tien defended his comment.
I smothered a smile we all know how passionate Tien was about the fact that one of the Wild Powers had to be a witch. According to the Maiden's prophecy, there was definite reference to the third Wild Power being a witch. As we already had a vampire and a human with vampire blood it made sense one had to be a witch and another probably a shifter.
"He could just turn out to be human. Although our half-breed Wild Power has human and vampire blood, there is still room for a Wild Power to be pure human. The humans have as big a chance as shifters and witches do in scoring the Wild Power lottery." Damien offered with an apologetic, amused smile as his soulmate gave him a dirty look.
"That's true. But would you really want to find out your a Wild Power? Nothing in that prophecy promises a good time." I had to say.
"I agree with Liev. They and their soulmates are stuck being moved from safe house to safe house with a permanent team of body guards. They can't fart without somebody knowing and watching for a problem. Not my idea of a good time." Tien admitted the usual energy and humour returning to his face.
"But the blue fire would be a pretty sweet weapon to wield don't you think?" Damien argued animatedly.
He was really into weapons and quite a collection of few swords, knives and wooden fighting sticks.
Chay raised an eyebrow crossing his arms over his chest. "Does it really matter if he's a lost witch or an Old Soul? Sometimes a Night Worlder can be both."
We all stared at him, quiet till now, this was the only time in our meeting he had offered anything bar a cool listening silence.
"You have a point. But it's pretty rare to get both a witch and an Old Soul." I returned sometimes we all forget how clever and insightful he was under that brooding, cold expression.