WATER
It had been a tough week without Mason. In some ways, he balanced the group with his neutral, diplomatic personality. None of us were fighting but we weren't talking much either. It seemed that as the days passed and we got much closer to the summer solstice, we all became very tense. Even my mother didn't feel like her usual self.
She had been training un in the Egyptian fighting ways but her mind wasn't in it. Occasionally, I would look at her during our training sessions and she'd be staring out into space, lost in thought.
One day after our lesson, we were going to head back inside when I told Kalani and Alex I'd meet them at dinner. They only nodded their heads and kept on walking while I stayed back and stared at my mother briefly.
Since we trained in the clearing she had
