Exit Denied

Reggie giggled from behind me, making my blush deepen.

I could feel Zin’s cool breath on my face, “I didn’t mean it like that,” I said sheepishly, turning away.

“Regardless of what you meant or he meant, I feel you and Ms. Witchy here are up to no good. So either spill it, or you’re going on lockdown.”

Michael wasn’t playing, I could tell.

“Fine! Reggie and I are going to get the tatwurm.”

I looked at Michael, and he cocked an eyebrow.

“The one you thought you saw in the cave?”

“What do you mean ‘thought I saw’? Zin saw it too, and so did his security guard.”

Michael looked at Zin and then back at me.

“Yes, I had already discussed it with him. According to the book of life in Heaven, those things went extinct long ago. The last known one was reported in Fairy territory, on a whole other continent, Ayda.”

“That’s impossible,” my eye’s widened at the disbelief, and I turned to Zin, “Tell him! We seen one, we both did.”