Chapter 135: A few moments later...
It felt like time passed by too quickly after that first day.
Before Kellen knew it, he found himself two weeks later, deep into classes with the new Guides, Brent a constant headache and news about him beating the shit out of Guides long forgotten. Where the time had gone, Kellen had no idea. All he really knew was that...something felt a little wrong.
During the two weeks that had disappeared in a flash, the higher ups in all of the Guilds had been hard at work. They had eventually identified all of the body parts that had come out of the gate, which meant family could finally be notified. They still hadn’t found anything from Carter Scott yet, but given the time, they had a feeling they would find him when they did their second scouting party.
Because of this, there were no relaxed evenings drinking with everyone anymore. In fact, Kellen rarely saw anything anymore, including the Captain. If it wasn’t for their guiding sessions that they were still doing with Taylor, he was sure he wouldn’t have seen him at all.
Even Taylor was hard to get a hold of right now. Besides the few times that Kellen and Brent went to act as the Field Guide representatives for them in meetings, the two of them felt like they were in their own little bubble, focused on training the new Field Guides as they waited for the shoe to drop.
Every time that Kellen saw Hill or Gunther, usually in passing, both looked stressed out of their minds. Hill looked disheveled, kinda like a raccoon, and Kellen had taken to sending her care packages of grape lollipops out of concern for her.
Gunther always had his hair up and braided, a style that Kellen knew he only wore on the front lines so that it didn’t get caught or tangled. The man somehow looked paler than he normally did, and Kellen had taken to sending him fancy coffee, since he knew that Gunther liked that kind of stuff. It was the only thing he took for himself on the front lines.
Whenever Kellen saw the Captain at the end of the day, he looked tired. He wasn’t using his powers an insane amount, but the ocean in him hadn’t softened. It was still that raging, turbulent and violent ocean Kellen had met with the day after the press conference. Kellen felt like he was coaxing a giant beast.
Casper was the busiest with truly Guild related business. He was dealing with the fallout of finding out that many of his employees hadn’t been doing their jobs, plus his own responsibilities with the gate issue. His hair was always spiked, he had huge circles under his eyes, and he was wisp thin. Taylor was shoving shakes at him any chance she could get, and Kellen was doing the same.