“Hey, why am I last to the party?” The second twin arrived. He looked in better shape than his brother.
“Last again, Matt,” the twin who I now knew was Zach said.
“Yeah, yeah,” he said. “What are we doing here? If Raven’s in trouble, we need to move.”
“She’s through here,” Zach said.
The twins moved closer to the wall of vines and I stepped back to let them do their thing. This really was their area of expertise.
“I can feel her,” Matt said.
“It’s a shield barrier,” Zach said. “We can take it down. Be ready for when it falls.”
“We’re right behind you,” Ben said, his teeth bared.
I was pretty sure we were going to have a full-fledged werewolf on our hands any second. Hopefully he’d wait till we were through.
“Hey, Ben,” Matt said. “If your wolf can help Raven, don’t hold back. We’ll move out of your way.”
“We do this together,” Ben said. “But I will shift if needed.”
Matt nodded, then turned back to the barrier. He and Zach lifted their hands toward it and I could feel the vibrations of the magic they were creating. I didn’t know enough about spells and mages to know what they were doing, but I trusted them.
And it dawned on me that they trusted me too. I told them Raven was in danger and without question, they came.
We were an odd group. But we were all in this together, no matter what happened next.