‘I feel fantastic – actually, I feel a little guilty about that,’ he said looking down.
I stretched and pointed to my top, now hanging from the end of the bed. As Lincoln reached over to pass it to me I said, ‘Don’t. I feel good, too. When we heal like that together we are so much more powerful. It always seems to recharge us both. It’s like having a jumpstart.’
He nodded, but didn’t want to linger on the subject. ‘Do you feel up to moving about?’
‘Sure. Why?’
He stood up, politely turning his back to me as I sat up. ‘First, we get food and I show you to your room. Zoe has organised for all of your stuff to go there.’
‘And second?’ I asked, shrugging my top on and continuing to finger comb my hair.
‘Josephine has requested to see you in her office.’
Lucky me.
‘Do they have any more intel on Lilith or Phoenix?’
He hitched a shoulder. ‘I’m hoping that’s what we’re about to find out.’
My room wasn’t nearly as impressive as Lincoln’s. And it had to fit both Zoe and me.
‘No fair,’ I mumbled to Zoe, as I unloaded some clothes on the bed, looking for a suitable change after my cramped shower in our tiny cubicle of a bathroom.
‘Yeah, well, wait till you see the size of the single rooms. At least we can lie straight in our beds,’ she responded, pulling posters out of her bottom drawer and proceeding to put them up on the bare greyish wall above her bed.
‘Who did you used to share this room with?’ I asked, deciding on a pair of black jeans and a light red sweater.
‘A girl called Eleanor. She graduated a few months back. She and her partner are now in Germany, I think,’ she said with a shrug. ‘We were never close.’
‘How come Lincoln got such a flashy room?’
Zoe kicked her bags under her bed and dusted off her hands. ‘Don’t know. He was given one of the best suites. Apart from Grigori leaders, no one gets those rooms. Someone obviously thinks he’s very important.’
That was interesting.
Zoe kept her gaze on me and finally rolled her eyes. ‘Are you going to tell me what happened? Everyone’s talking about it.’
I sighed. I wasn’t up to reliving my introduction to the Assembly just yet. ‘Later?’ I asked.
She paused and I thought she’d argue, but instead she just nodded, acceptingly. ‘Fine. But I’ll want details.’
After we’d finished settling into our room, Zoe walked me through the halls and over the skywalk, back into the glass building apparently known as ‘Command’. It was where all the training and official Assembly rooms were located. Zoe explained there were five buildings in total. Building B, where our rooms were, and another building, C, were both dedicated to accommodation. Building A was fitted with gyms and recreational areas along with a massive food hall and another large cafeteria. Building D was for Academy classes and was where all new Grigori were restricted to when they first started their training.
I guess I should have been grateful Josephine didn’t try to confine me to Building D.
Now that I had crossed over the skywalk a couple of times, I could see the light golden glow that Morgan had talked about around its edges.
‘It’s amazing,’ I said as we walked across it.
Zoe nodded. ‘Always a crowd pleaser.’
I bounced up and down on the invisible floor. It was completely solid. ‘What is it?’
‘Reinforced glass,’ she said, pulling out a bag of M&M’s. She seriously must have had some kind of never-ending supply. ‘Valerie and Hakon just keep them under a very strong glamour.’
I was mesmerised by it. ‘Don’t birds fly into it? Or planes?’ If no one could see them, then surely they were some kind of hazard.
She shook her head. ‘We’re in a strict no-fly zone and the glamour does something that repels birds.’
I still couldn’t comprehend it. ‘What about when it rains – don’t people see the water splashing off them?’
‘Nope. If you’re looking up from the street the glamour just mirrors the image from above the walkway so even when it rains all they see is the rain falling from above the tunnel.’
‘Wow.’
‘Yep,’ she said, shaking out some M&M’s into her hand and popping a few in her mouth.
She stopped at the beginning of a long corridor and pointed to the double doors at the end. ‘Josephine’s office is behind those doors. I gotta go meet up with Spence. He had his meeting. Valerie has made him start back in training sessions from tonight. I promised to be his sparring partner.’ She popped another few M&M’s. ‘I’m gonna kick his ass.’ She waggled her eyebrows.
Poor Spence. Zoe fought like a cat – a particularly well-clawed cat. ‘See ya,’ I said, as she left me to take the rest of the hallway on my own.