Meeting at the door

"Adara! Wake up, girl!" Selkia shouted.
"Ok, ok, I'm alright... I think. That was really weird."
"What was weird?" Selkia asked.
Adara was about to tell her about the whole vision when she remembered the headmaster's warning.
"Uh... I just passed out, in the middle of the corridor. But I think I'm ok now. Umm... I'd better get back my house common room...thanks for your help Selkia," Adara said in a rush.
She hurried off down the corridor, on her way to Professor Chateaunoir's room, since she had no idea how to find the headmaster`s office.
"What in the world was that, and what did the headmaster mean by all of that?" Adara mumbled to herself. "What is happening around here?" She turned a corner and knocked on Professor Chateaunoir's door.


Lightning rounded the corner and entered the corridor that Professor Chateaunoir's room was located in, with Birdy right behind her. She wasn't surprised to see Adara standing at the door waiting to be let in.

Lightning gave Adara a nod and offered her a slight smile as she walked towards her. She stopped slightly behind her and calmly waited to be let in. Birdy bit her lip, and came about it in a more polite way than the 'bloody hell' approach: "Care to explain what's going on here," she asked as the door creaked open...

Adara scowled. "Professor, I need to talk to you! and the headmaster! I have no idea what`s going on, and I need some answers!" She gave as much of a smile as she could to Birdy and Lightning. "Sorry about that, I've had a rough day."

And inside...

Aylin, like everyone else in the room, heard the knocks at the door. She knew they would come, but she couldn`t understand how that was possible. Unless it's been a weird coincidence...
Sliver stared at the door a bit puzzled, not knowing what to do.
"Open it, hon," Aylin smiled.
Selena secretely exchanged a few words with Mel. Aylin was too preoccupied to pay any attention to them. She saw then Adara, Birdy and Li standing in front of the door.

"Can we talk to Prof Chateaunoir, please?" - Li dared locking Sliver's look with her gaze. It was something like a fire burning behind those eyes: a reddish sparkle.
"She's not feeling well..." - the Headmaster's answer came.
"I'm okay, everyone... Umm..." She pause, unable to take her eyes off Li and her friends. She felt that burning gaze. And she also felt something coming from Birdy.

As for Adara, she couldn't help but stare at Sliver. She didn't know what she was doing: expecting a clue maybe, a word, an explanation. But Sliver didn`t seem to notice that. He was acting as if nothing has happened.

"Umm... could you please leave me alone for a second with the girls? I'm sure they have something important to tell me..."
Chateaunoir's words puzzled the other professors, but they did leave the room, not without a little suspicion that something weird was going to happen the moment they'd be out.
And out they were...
"What happened?" - Aylin's first question came as she tried to sit up.

Adara looked flustered and her face was red. "What happened is that I was knocked unconscious by some stupid glowy light thingy for who knows how long, and then taken to some place with a whole lot of mist, and then scared half to death, and then brought back here." Adara said in one long breath. "And then I saw the headmaster, and he said something about me being chosen by the stupid light thingy, but I don't wanna be chosen! And then I was back in the corridor I was knocked unconcious in!"

Lightning patiently waited for Adara to finish her rant, keeping her eyes locked on Aylin. Once Adara was done, Lightning calmly stated, "You called me."

She saw the questioning look in Aylin's eyes but continued on, motioning for Birdy to roll up her sleeve, then pointing to the bite once it was up. "And Birdy here...well, she has a bit of a problem..." Lightning fell silent then, continuing to look at Aylin with the red sparkle in her eye.

Birdy had fallen silent, but after rolling up her sweater, she bit her lower lip and said, "I'm so terribly confused here... What is going on?" She ran a frustrated hand through her hair and sighed. "Anyone care to explain things to me?"