Chapter 124: Jo

When Elf wasn't licking the polka-dots off his stomach, he darted from room to room with his tail bushed out and his teeth bared like some kind of whacked out furry ninja. It was unnerving, to say the least, because animals have super-sonic instincts. He must've known something awful was going to happen, which confirmed everything I knew to be true.

Between his weird behavior and the thick blanket of night covering the windows, I was freaking out. What if my best friend didn't win the war she'd waged against the freaky Sorceresses who wanted her dead? What if it was because of Sorceresses and not humans' total disrespect for our sacred planet that would destroy it? Tonight. We could all cross that rainbow bridge in the sky sooner than we'd thought. The very idea of death scratched the inside of my skin with frozen fingernails and crawled it into a constant goosebumpy shiver.