Status Updates From Magic or Die (Inner Demons,...

Ugh, time is not on my side today.

“No, seriously, we just did this.” She turned and looked at me. “We just did this. What the hell is going on?”
“We’re in a time loop, or replaced, or rewound…” I said, and there was only one person I knew who could do that.

“I said don’t kill anyone!” I shook my head. As much as I had wanted to bust out of here with a bang, I didn’t want to escape leaving a rampage of bloody carnage in our wake. The kids, however, had other ideas. Not that I could blame them after being mistreated and kept hostage for so long.

I’ve done this all wrong. I should never have expected them to focus and minimalize their powers. They needed to explode, to burst forth and give the world everything they had. I felt bad for the guards on the other side of my wall, when I reconciled quite quickly that the five “kids” behind me were armed with much bigger guns than I would ever have.

You know what I hate? Fade to black sex. If you introduce it, then do it right., or don't introduce the relationship in the first place. If the book is written for adults then treat us like adults. You don't have to do much, just a little of something intimate and sexual.

FFS. Enough of the winking between James and Isaiah.

"You’re one of us too. I can smell it. That’s probably a better move. The last two ‘teachers’ they gave us were Norms. They didn’t last long. Ning killed one of them by accident. He was a bit of a fucker anyway. If Ning’s snow woman hadn’t got him, Annabelle’s demons were itching to play in his entrails.” Isaiah gave me a side glance and one of those smirks that already had me melting.

I looked again towards the other Isaiah, with my head canted to one side and an eyebrow raised. What the hell?
“Not hell. Not yet anyway. Astral Projection I believe it’s called—if you’re wondering how I’m here and there at the same time.”

Most magical abilities had a radius; a maximum effect area. Mine was pretty close, force fields and energy shields were only viable up to ten feet or so, and then they seemed to fizzle out. As an Empath, skin-to-skin contact was the best, but that wasn’t information I let just anyone know.

The apartment was not equipped with either a kitchen or a TV. This was not going to be a good morning if I couldn’t get a cup of coffee, and soon. I was missing too many elements of my regular morning. I might end up with my own demons manifesting themselves if I didn’t manage to regain a little familiarity. Coffee. I need coffee. Baileys would be good.

One thing was for sure, I was trapped. And these kids didn’t stand a chance with me as their instructor.
Welcome to your first day of hell, class. My name is Mr. Martin, and I’m here to make sure you don’t kill yourselves.

Annabelle and her creepy voice with the slimy demons. Isaiah. Such a handsome creature, numb and incapable of dealing with the world. And my own guilt, which was invoking dread and fear that always led me to my bottles of vodka. And then thoughts of Cody, pasty and white. Haunting eyes begging me to help him.

(...) the videos from that first meeting, which was already days ago, replayed in my head. Ning and her trembling lip with a cheek splattered with blood. Chris and eruptions of fire. Camila smiling devilishly into the camera, looking as if she caused the world’s chaos.

White dead hands pulled the covers back, exposing my nakedness as his milky-eyed gaze studied me carefully.
“Go home. Leave here. You can’t help them. You promised me, and you left me to die!” Cody growled at me.

(...) and in the middle of that vast emptiness were five plexiglass cubes. There was a spotlight on each one, and I knew immediately what they were. They were the cells containing the five students I had seen with Major Harris and his cronies.

“We could help you with your sister too. Last I heard, she was hanging out in that wretched place on Stephen Avenue. What’s it called?” She tapped her finger against her lips as she thought. “Clementine’s, I think. Dreadful place. You know, word on the street is she’s hanging out with Raven Nightshade.”