As Kaya and Ralph Eisen got into their duel, Aylin couldn't keep the smile off her face as she turned her eyes away from her downed brother to Marcus who, despite his agreement, still looked unsure.
Baler began to stir then, placing his hands against the ground to try and rise up but without sparing him a glance, Aylin clenched her fist and conjured a pillar of ice that descended to squash him into the ground.
"Arrghhh!" Baler cried out and then went limp.
"So," Aylin said to Marcus, "What are you going to do to me?"
Her perfect lips formed a smirk, and she wiggled her brows in a way that caused Marcus to shiver as tingles traveled down his spine and to every part of his body. Even to a specific part of his anatomy that he quickly had to tame.
The thought of spotting a hard-on while he had Recording Crystals trained on him and was probably being watched by more than half of the students at Lochxen, his Professors, and even his parents back home, helped him rein it in.
