{"sf1_id":625950,"sf2_id":"7ejBYR9e","title":"Amber Silverblood: Chapter Three","author":"ThisAdamGuy","words":932,"posted_at":"2013-12-12T04:27:00.000Z","tags":["Fantasy","Magic","Transformation","Warlock","Werewolf","wizard"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/625950-amber-silverblood-chapter-three","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/7ejBYR9e","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/6d/3e/6d3e6b25-b6d0-4d3f-9f8f-e356b7f872ad","description":"#3 of Amber Silverblood\n\nAmber confronts Edgar and forces him to explain.","content":"Chapter Three\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"You know that new kid's been following you around all day, right?\" Stacey asked, sticking her latest wad of gum onto her lunch tray.\u0026nbsp; \"It's creepy.\"\n\nStacey was right.\u0026nbsp; I'd figured it out long before she had.\u0026nbsp; Everywhere I went, Edgar was somewhere nearby, always wearing that slightly-too-big smile on his face.\u0026nbsp; Even now, he was sitting two tables away from us, his eyes never leaving me.\u0026nbsp; I kept myself from looking in his direction, though.\n\n\"He either knows you from somewhere,\" Stacey mused.\n\n\"No he doesn't!\" I shot back.\n\n\"Or he's got a major crush on you,\" she finished, giving me a coy wink.\n\nI felt my face redden, and I had to quell the sudden urge to bite her.\u0026nbsp; \"Somehow, I don't think that's it either.\"\n\nStacey shrugged, \"Well, whatever the reason, he won't take his eyes off you.\"\u0026nbsp; She looked down at her salad, and then back at me.\u0026nbsp; \"Maybe he's a psycho waiting to catch you alone and knife you.\"\n\n\"Or blast me with a magic wand...\" I added before I realized what I was saying, and then clamped my mouth shut.\n\nStacey gave me one of her patented \"you're crazy\" looks, shook her head in resignation, and began to eat her lunch.\u0026nbsp; I tried to focus on my chicken sandwich, but found I couldn't work up an appetite, which was strange.\u0026nbsp; The meat was processed and I could taste every preservative inside, courtesy of my werewolf taste buds, but that normally didn't matter.\u0026nbsp; If it's meat, a wolf isn't likely to turn it down.\u0026nbsp; Between being attacked by the freaky arm man, being rescued by Edgar, finding out I was probably responsible for murdering a little girl, and then being followed all over school by Edgar, I wasn't sure I could stomach any food.\n\n\"That stuff's gonna kill you, you know,\" Stacey said through a mouthful of green stuff.\u0026nbsp; She pointed at my sandwich, \"Can't believe you stopped being a vegan.\"\n\n\"It's been half a year already,\" I snapped.\u0026nbsp; \"Get over it!\"\n\n\"There's more chemicals in that thing than a...\" Stacey faltered.\u0026nbsp; \"A thing with lots of chemicals in it.\"\n\nI shot her a look, and then took a big bite out of the sandwich just to spite her, chewing it with obvious relish.\u0026nbsp; Stacey glared at me, and then went back to her salad.\n\n\"It's just not right,\" she groused.\u0026nbsp; \"We're not supposed to eat our animal brethren!\"\n\n_More brethren to me than you,_ I thought.\u0026nbsp; _I think that gives me the right to eat them if I want._\n\nThe argument was childish, I know, but it managed to take my mind off of Edgar for a few minutes.\u0026nbsp; We finished our lunches in silence, and then got up to leave.\u0026nbsp; Stacey put her gum back into her mouth, and announced that she had to go to the restroom.\u0026nbsp; I stood in the hallway, waiting for her to return.\u0026nbsp; As I waited, random bits of conversation drifted into my ears as the other students and teachers walked by.\n\n\"... going to snow again tomorrow night.\"\n\n\"Nobody got above a 60 on my test...\"\n\n\"How long are your parents going to be gone?\"\n\n\"Hi, my name's Edgar!\"\n\nMy pulse spiked, and I spun around to find none other than Edgar himself standing beside me.\u0026nbsp; I put a hand to my chest, trying to calm my heart down.\u0026nbsp; Scaring a werewolf is not a good idea- I learned that the hard way.\u0026nbsp; I wanted to yell at him, but that wouldn't do much for keeping a low profile.\n\n\"Yeah,\" I said once I'd caught my breath again.\u0026nbsp; \"Yeah, you told me already.\"\n\n\"You remembered!\" he exclaimed, brightening up.\n\nHe wasn't all that tall, I realized.\u0026nbsp; I wasn't either, but I still stood a good three inches above him.\u0026nbsp; Not a hair was out of place on his head, and his face was clean shaven.\n\n\"Um,\" I said tentatively, beginning to back away, \"I need to go.\"\n\n\"There's something we need to talk about,\" Edgar said, following me.\n\n\"I don't know what you did back there this morning,\" I said, trying to sound nonchalant as I hurried my pace, \"but I don't want anything more to do with it.\"\n\n\"You really have no idea?\" he asked, speeding up to a jog to keep up with me.\u0026nbsp; \"It was magic.\u0026nbsp; I'd have thought that'd be obvious.\"\n\nI stopped in my tracks and turned to look at him in bewilderment.\n\n\"Magic?\" I asked.\u0026nbsp; \"You're joking, right?\"\n\nEdgar shrugged, \"You're a werewolf, right?\u0026nbsp; Is magic really so hard to believe in?\"\n\nI froze, a shocked look on my face.\n\n\"W-what did you just say?\" I asked, unable to keep my voice from trembling slightly.\n\n\"Magic shouldn't be so hard to believe in,\" he said again.\u0026nbsp; \"After all...\"\n\n\"No, not that!\" I hissed, and then lowered my voice.\u0026nbsp; \"I mean about my being a... you know.\"\n\n\"Oh, that?\" he shrugged again, \"We've been keeping an eye on you ever since the attack six months ago.\"\n\nI felt my blood run cold.\u0026nbsp; For half a minute, I could only stare at him.\u0026nbsp; He was a tiny, scrawny boy.\u0026nbsp; Being what I am, he wouldn't have lasted five seconds in a fist fight with me, and yet he had me completely and totally intimidated- all without taking that innocent little smile off his face.\n\n\"Who are you?\" I asked at last, my voice hardly more than a whisper.\n\nHe stuck his hand out for me to shake, \"Hi, my name is Edgar, licensed wizard and battle mage.\u0026nbsp; I'm here to protect you!\"\n\n  \n  \n\n","series":{"name":"Amber Silverblood","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/624128-amber-silverblood-chapter-two.json","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/634244-amber-silverblood-chapter-four.json"}}