Panic!

I struggled to remain calm. I heard movement from the others and remembered Gwen was on speaker phone. I turned up the volume. "Where are you? Has he threatened you?" I started pacing, a purple aura of power radiating off me.

"No, he seems terrified actually, I think this might be another Emmy situation. Here, lemme switch to video."

I propped up the phone and relaxed as Emmy hugged me from behind. The screen switched to an image of a study room in the library. I saw a short, skinny boy standing next to Gwen. His skin was an unhealthy pale for his olive complexion, his dark curly hair was tangled and sweaty. He shook as he met my eyes, a flash of memory hit me. He had run from us on Monday, he must have recognized Gwen and confronted her.

I relaxed further, he really was scared.

"You're the guy with the weird Aura. What do you want from us?"

His voice shook, "The truth. I know you're a demon, but you haven't eaten anyone. If the rumors are true you've been healing people!" I felt a sinking feeling in my stomach, eat people? "I want to know why only I can see you for what you are, and what happened when I was a kid." His eyes pleaded with me, his shoulders hunched like I would hit him through the screen.

Okay, two weeks ago I would tell someone like this to see a psychiatrist, but he obviously knows about magic. "Let's back up a bit, my name's Morgan, the girl with me is Emmy, and that's Gwen. I have been healing people, I've never thought of eating anyone and I have no idea what you might have seen as a kid. I few weeks ago I was a totally normal girl. Well, relatively normal and kinda in denial about the whole girl thing so..." I shook my head to stop babbling.

"Short version, I found magic, changed my body to look like this with said magic, you can somehow see through the illusion we wear in public and encountered what you saw as a demon years ago and want answers."

He straightened his spine and almost snarled at me."I know what I saw! That thing ate them alive and would have got me and my mom too if it wasn't for the Angel! It erased the memories of everyone else but you prove it wasn't a hallucination." He wiped away tears and Gwen looked like she wanted to hug him."It ate one of my mom's friends, but no one even knows she existed anymore!" Oh fuck.

He collapsed into Gwen when she wrapped her arms around him. It would be almost funny in another situation, the guy was short but still nearly a foot taller than the tiny bunny who was comforting him.

As I waited for him to calm down, we started for Taylor's car. We'd started driving by the time he could speak clearly again.

"I'm sorry, it's just I thought I was crazy for so long that..." He shook his head. " My name is Trevor, anything you can tell me about magic would be amazing. I have so many questions."

I smiled into the camera. "Nice to meet you Trevor. How about you and Gwen head over to this address and order some pizza? Okay? We'll be there in about an hour and we can answer each other's questions over dinner."

He nodded. "Okay, I'm sorry again."

"No problem, I know what it's like to be dumped into the deep end like this."

Gwen took back the phone. "We can be at your apartment building in fifteen minutes and I still have your spare key. So everything should be okay on my end. See you guys soon!" She kissed the camera and we waved.

I sighed in relief. That could have gone worse, now we just have to worry about cannibal demons and memory erasing angels.

I must have said that out loud because Taylor shifted uncomfortably and said in small voice, "At least he didn't have a magic breaking sword?"

I laughed and kissed the Arachne's warm cheek while she pulled onto the main road to town.