Chapter 363: I’m not affected. This is a super normal reaction
It was the morning that his parents left, and Brent and Hill left with the first batch out to the front lines.
Captain Sergei had been messaging him for the last 24 hours, excited to have ’fresh blood’ as he said, but Kellen was sure he was just happy that Uncle Tom was leaving him alone since the Saturn Guild was coming to the front lines.
He had been kept out of the loop about who was coming to the front lines, which Kellen did think was ridiculous. There had to be people around him who were still useful. Keeping everyone on his team in the dark seemed like a bad idea.
Kellen’s alarm went off, and Rhys groaned in the bed next to him. Kellen, not just because Captain Sergei was texting him constantly, had barely gotten any sleep the previous night. Rhys had flung his arm around and over Kellen in his sleep, and Kellen had laid on his back, staring up at the ceiling as the other man had slept on beside him.
It was a big day today. He was allowed to say goodbye to his parents as they left for this mission. Even Gwen was allowed to say goodbye to them. He didn’t think they were going to their death, but with everything going on, it was better for them to take every chance that they could get.
Guides and Espers had been killed for less. Hell, civilians had been killed for less. Humans were brutal, but monsters were relentless.
They were heading off first, on a very expensive flight that wasn’t actually full. It was the only way they were able to get away with two invisible people getting onto the flight. It was a milk run, or so Kellen had been told. He hadn’t been told what flights. That information had been kept to a very select few. It had been offered to Kellen, but he had turned it down.
They would let him know if something happened to them. The D.E.C. knew better than to keep it from him.
After he saw his parents off, Brent had asked that he work out with him one last time before he headed off for a few weeks. They had forgone the week break, where Brent would come back in between classes, so he was going to be out there for a month without coming back into town. So, they were working out together before that happened.