They are in your head

Date | 22nd Apr. 2022
Time | Around 5pm
Weather | Right now it’s sunny but it slowly changes to more ominous weather where Priscilla is currently at
Place | Joseph’s place
Attire | A couple of jeans, trusted boots and a loose washed blue t-shirt with a leather jacket over.


With everything that was going on lately, she had decided that it was about time that she figured out what she wanted. So, when her half-brother had reached out, she had after a couple of days when she had thought the through finally called back and set up a meeting. Maybe it was about time that she left the old Priscilla behind, and she finally embraced that she was more than the cold and slightly toxic woman that she had been for so long. Besides, maybe this would help her become the mother that she had always wished to be. And yet, with all of that she was now standing in Joseph’s house.
Because even though every voice in the back of her head were screaming that she should just get out, and not keep coming back. She did just that. Maybe it was because she saw a side of herself in him, a side she had always been so afraid off, but with him she could just be herself. Even if she wished to be someone else entirely.

“What are you even doing?” she called out, not that that she got an answer. He had mumbled about needing to look at something and had left her where she was. It was constantly just that, she thought she had his attention for a moment, and the next she didn’t hear from him in weeks. It was driving her crazy. Dropping the rather boring magazine she had in her hands, she clapped her hands from the dust that had piled in the place.
Narrowing her eyes, she walked towards the end of the room she had been in. Opening a door she walked inside, and let her eyes scan the surroundings. Then something caught her eye and she pulled down a file, Jack’s name was on it. At first, she hadn’t even thought about it being her brother, but as she kept reading, she finally connected the dots. He had been the one that had wanted her brother. As she read on, she was confronted with just the kind of man she had been dealing with. She grabbed a new file and started reading, more disgusted than she had been before. And yet she couldn’t stop reading. What on earth was all of this?

What had Joseph Blackwood even been up to lately? A series of burning questions yet no one seemed to ever really find the right answer, now did they? He had never been the man to give someone the complete picture, he liked giving pieces of the puzzle then leaving behind a few so you couldn't complete it. First of all he had been annoyed that she had showed up, obviously. This was his little place, he never really took people here and yet she had showed up after that one time he had taken her here. The only person he didn't mind showing up here was Remiel, mostly because Remy well - just did things and you couldn't really just tell him to fuck off now could you? Second of all he got annoyed at what she was looking into, as he turned around seeing her nose in his files. Very well organized files to be clear about it. With a snap of his fingers he returned the files to his hand, and raised a brow at her, "what do you think that you are doing?" Joseph then asked before making the files vanish. Well, it wasn't like Joseph was stupid. He knew who Pricilla was, and he knew who Jack had been and who he was. Joseph let out a sigh before shaking his head a little disappointed.

Just as she had found the files the disappeared again. She could feel how clouds started to drag over the area that she was at. Thunderclaps in the background, maybe she had a thing for a dramatic effect. Who knew? One thing was sure, when it came to her anger and emotions in general, she wasn’t the best to control them. He had seen that, multiple times already. She had tackled him the first time they had met after all.
Tilting her head, a little she narrowed her eyes as he asked her what she was doing. Now, it was a good question, and a valid one since she had clearly poked around in things that she shouldn’t have seen. Disturbed his work as it were. Then a soft laugh left her, as she shook her head. He dared to be disappointed at her? Priscilla licked her teeth as she then looked up again knowing her eyes had changed to match the weather.
“Apparently finding the last piece of the puzzle” she said in a low growl as she walked towards him. Feeling how the entire room start dropping in degrees. Her nosed made a small pull of disgust. Mostly at herself at this point. “So, what, you just run around kidnapping children and burning those that you don’t want?” she said, remembering that night so vividly despite her being so young.

The weather changed, fantastic, as if one weather bastard wasn't annoying enough. Again, there was small things he had just gotten used to Remy did that he didn't appreciate others doing. Sometimes it was the small things even, like others simply breathing - depending on the mood. "Of course not," Joseph rolled his eyes a little and crossed his arms, "I have people for that, pure waste of my time. But I will tell you, a good footman is hard to come by these days," he pointed out. "You still upset about the thing with your brother, don't be so dramatic, it's not like any of you died," Joseph shook his head feeling the chills of the cool trying to reach him.  She should really mind her manners. "First, you come into my house, you snoop through my work and then you question me - darling you should know better than to do just that," Joseph took a step closer towards her, letting himself tab into her nerve system, slowly paralyzing her body, starting from the lower abdominal, then moving down - then out the rest of her body, slowly enough for her to realize there wasn't much she could do than just accept the fact that she had chosen the wrong day to question his actions. "It really is a shame isn't it, I was starting to like you -" Joseph clicked his tongue a little bit. "Before you try to put up a fight of any order, please think about your entire family instead of just yourself sweetheart."

Priscilla grinded her teeth as he mentioned her being dramatic. She should have known better, there was no way to negotiate with a sociopath, but she didn’t always think now, did she? She knew that there was no way that she could compete with his powers, especially since he was so much stronger than she was. But that didn’t mean she thought that far in the moment know, did she? She hadn’t even unlocked her full potential hanging onto the powers that reminded her of her brother. But as her fingertips started to freeze, she felt how something changed in her body, her eyes widened as she looked into his eyes. Something was wrong, and then she realized what he was doing, he was paralyzing her completely. Her heartbeat started to pick up speed. It became hard to even swallow, but she still managed to pull her lips back into a scowl.
But as he mentioned her family, there was something that pulled her under in a deep ocean of pitch-black and ice-cold water. There was something about the way he said her entire family that made her palms sweat and she remained silent. Because if anything, if he knew about her children, he was right. Then there was nothing she wouldn’t do, and if that meant staying quiet – she would.

"Good girl," he chuckled a little bit then taking a step closer towards her, shaking his head a little bit. "It was such a shame really, yeah," Joseph tilted his head a bit to the side. Now, perhaps she was the final piece to his way of getting rid of that siphoner mark once and for all? Tempting. "Now, seeing you already know too much - perhaps you can help me with the final piece of my puzzle," he didn't really want to give her too much of a choice no. "Goodnight," he then said shut down her brain for the time being, so he could get her to a better location, or not location, room - and he had wanted to put his glass rooms into good use. Besides it was as well big enough to contain a thunderbird in its natural shape. Once she was safely tugged into her new home, he didn't really mind letting her wake up.


Vidar hadn't liked this one bit, just standing looking at his younger sister not really knowing what to say to her about this. Because he knew that if Daisy knew that their half sister was in trouble, knowing her or not - Daisy wasn't really one to just sit back and let Vidar handle things on his own now was she? Not that it was like Daisy didn't have half an army worth of back up if she just called out - if not an entire army. And perhaps they should call for a extra set of hands, but right now he had just seen where his sister was, and he did not like it. Far from. So, once he had told Daisy they were more or less headed the way.

Daisy had texted Cassian informing him that the infamous Joseph Blackwood was up to no good and had taken Pricilla and that her along with Vidar was going to find her. Now she had no real idea on what Joseph was capable off, but she couldn't really just let Vidar storm off in rage into a magic fight with a guy like Joseph now could she.

Nothing about Joseph’s demeanour reassured her. Feeling chills travel down her spine as her eyes locked with his. It was getting harder to breathe at this point. Not because she was terrified, but because of the paralyses that reached the point where she would no longer be anything that an unwilling puppet.
Now, there weren’t many things that could scare the blond woman. But as he mentioned her being the last piece in his puzzle, it finally gripped her heart. That was the last feeling that managed to glide through her body before everything went dark.

A soft groan left her blurry eyes, and her entire body felt heavy. She wasn’t even sure how long she had been out. Had it been hours, days, just a few seconds? As her vision finally managed to see clearly again, she noticed something between her and freedom. Had he put her in a cage? After a few tries, she finally got up on her feet and ran towards the glass. But as her hands collided with it, it was like an invisible force pushed her back. “Joseph!” she screamed, not ready to back down and die like that. Not when he had already decided she was no longer valuable for him alive.

"Oh come on, I thought you of all people would be smarter than that," he shook his head sitting in a chair with a note book while his feet rested on the nearest table. He turned his head a little towards Pricilla and shook his head a little bit. "You can shout all you want, its not like I even can hear you - and I've heard anger provokes wrinkles," Joseph let out a small sigh and just sat down. That was when he noticed something else, a swift of energies in the neighborhood, that couldn't be good. "You expecting company?" Joseph almost laughed a little waving his hand, "of course you don't." He then got up from his seat, and headed back upstairs to see what was going on.

Vidar and Daisy reached the cabin, that pretty much looked like just that. A small cabin in the woods, but Daisy also never distrusted Vidar's visions when it came to tracking. The place sent shivers down her spine, because she could feel just why she didn't like this place, it was covered in death. "I love places like this -- said no one ever," she mumbled a little bit looking around them. "You can stay out here and I will deal with him," Vidar suggested, making Daisy's head turn towards him. "Because going alone into a serial killer, psychopath or whatever in between's secret hideout has ever been a good idea," Daisy raised her brow a little at her older brother who just let out a sigh. "I know, I just wanted you to be sure," Daisy shook her head a bit confused at her brother then took a deeper breath in.

"Oh well well, what to we have here - family reunion in the works?" Joseph asked as he got outside clapping his hands a little together with a small laugh. "Here I am, just trying to have a good time... and you come in try to ruin it," he shook his head looking at the thunderbird, before he inflicted a sensation of agonizing pain up through his nerve system, surprising Vidar enough to have him fall to his knees in a pained scream. "Vidar!" Daisy shouted then looking towards the siphoner. "Okay, that's enough," she spoke with a more stern voice keeping her eyes directly at Joseph who looked into her eyes, narrowing his eyes for a second. "Got a little magic protection going for you have you?" Joseph asked with a chuckle, narrowing his eyes a little bit, Daisy exhaled a little bit. "Let them go, and we will be on our way," she hoped to at least be able to make a deal of some sort without putting anything on the table. But also knowing it was rather wishful thinking. "See, cannot do that. And now you all know about my little home - can't let any of you leave really."

Her fist connected with the glass, and she could feel her knuckles crack under the pressure from the surface that she tried to break through. She should have known better, but still, she had to try. The last thing she wanted was to die or be locked up like some animal. “Joseph, don’t you touch them!” she screamed after him, again letting her fist hammer into the glass, but it was to no prevail. Then she heard someone talk, not that she could hear what was happening, but she had a good enough imagination to know what Joseph would do to keep her down here. And if he could take in a few interesting people in the process, what was there to stop him.
Walking around like a caged animal, she tried to see if she could see a weakness in the prison he had put her in. But as of right now, she couldn’t see anything. And sadly, he knew her abilities when it came to ice manipulation, meaning that she didn’t count on those right now, but that rendered her more or less defenceless.
A scream left her as she ran towards the four walls, but as her hands connected with it, there wasn’t a flow of pain that she had been expecting. Instead, she made a small surprised huff as she fell into a pile of flowers. “What the fuck?” she hissed but didn’t question it as she started to draw the molecules in the air towards her. Feeling how her entire body started to ice up, her eyes changing colour as thunder clouds began to roll over the small hut that they were at. “Think you could lock me up!?” she screamed, sending ice spikes through the door, aiming them to hit Joseph.

Now Joseph could hear her scream the second the glass was away, making him shortly caught off guard, but it still once again bothered him that the weather changed. Think you could lock me up!? "She is always so loud, it's rather frustrating really," he mumbled and turned around to see the spikes of ice heading his direction, and while Joseph focused his energy and magic on avoiding the attack, he was blindsided for the other enemy, making Daisy act nice and fact, using her telekinetic abilities to grab a hold on Joseph and a loud crack sounded as the siphoner's neck snapped, sending him into sleep, but also stopping the ability that worked on Vidar, and Vidar fell over shortly in pain before shaking it off. One of the perks of being a thunderbird - you got so used to pain. "So, you snapped his neck, what now?" Vidar mumbled a little bit annoyed, "and you - what were you even doing with that guy?" He massaged his forehead a little as he got up standing once again. "I think the correct term you are looking for is, thank you," Daisy corrected him while running a hand through her hair, looking towards her sister coming outside. Not really the setting she had wanted to meet her in, but here they were and like Cassian so fondly liked to say: they couldn't catch a fucking break.

Her eyes coldly looked at Joseph lying in the grass with his neck snapped. For good measure, she started freezing his entire body in a nice coffin. She looked up as Vidar mentioned what she was even doing with the guy; her eyes narrowed as she finished her work and shook her hand that was white from frost.
“Thank you”, Priscilla said, giving Daisy a half-smile before it disappeared as she looked back at her older brother. “I’m his mate, don’t ask more than that – it’s complicated”, she mumbled because it was. Not in her wildest dreams would she have thought that she would end up being this guy’s mate. But here they were. “So, want to grab that coffee and a slice of pie? Because I’m absolutely starving,” she mumbled, walking towards her car that wasn’t parked that far from where they were standing. She turned around and looked at them. “Need a ride, or did you get here on your own?” she asked, not digging deeper into the fact that she had been locked into a small cell by the notorious Joseph. After this was done, she needed to find Thomas and talk with him, making the proper precautions so nothing would harm their children, especially now that she was an enemy to Joseph Blackwood, that clearly had a thing for taking away children that weren’t his.

Being his mate, well neither Daisy or Vidar needed much more explanations than that, given both of them at this point were rather read on the subject. Daisy watched how Priscilla put Joseph on ice, knowing somewhere down the line it would be best to just get rid of the guy, but Vidar was one step ahead of her. "You two go ahead, I will just call Elroy here and then we will drop his somewhere - maybe the Atlantic Ocean or something," he mumbled looking at the ice coffin. Daisy just followed Priscilla knowing not to question Vidar when he wanted to take care of something. "I reckon I will go with you, Vidar seems to take matter into his own hands like usual," she chuckled a little bit, "but I'm just gonna throw a quick text ahead telling my boyfriend that we are fine," Daisy pointed out and grabbed her phone to text Cassian - even if she knew that if something had happened to her, Cassian would have known by the second, it still was nice to get the confirmation that everything was okay, before putting her phone away again. "Let's get going," Daisy then said before getting inside Priscilla's car, knowing that Vidar was a master in finding them in case of anything.

”Preferably with an anchor around it, and then thrown into the ocean,” Priscilla said with a fake smile before turning and looking towards Daisy as she told her that she would go with her. “You’re more than welcome too,” she said, going towards the car and opening it so they could get in. Or she got in, as Daisy told her that she would text her boyfriend. “Sure thing,” she said, not minding a few minutes for herself where she could just close her eyes and lean back. This hadn’t gone the way she had hoped. But something about it also eased her heart and mind. If they managed to get Joseph out of the way, she might be able to go back to the life that she was trying to reopen. Especially now that Thomas had been willing to let her see her children or their children again. “All right, do you prefer music or no music?” Priscilla asked before turning the car on and driving towards the city. “Guess this wasn’t really how you imagine meeting the bastard child of your father?” she said with a slight chuckle turning her eyes shortly towards her sister before looking back out on the road.

Daisy exhaled a little bit, "music is good," she responded honestly not really liking he silence too much - especially not when she felt the worry hit anyways. With a guy like Joseph Blackwood, if he wanted to he could cause more trouble than what he was worth - but hopefully Vidar knew what he was doing on the regards of that guy, and they shouldn't worry long enough. Daisy laughed a little bit, shaking her head, "no not really. Then again, nothing really surprises me these days, so guess we will just have to wing it," she chuckled a little bit. It had still taken her most by surprise the fact that her father actually had been having another child, even if she knew that her parents had been split before, then gotten back together back when they had gotten Daisy - it was still weird, but love worked in mysterious ways sometimes. "You alright though?" She then wondered, as she knew Joseph had held Priscilla captive, and with how he had treated Vidar - Daisy could only imagine what kind of damage he could do.

The soft tones from the radio played as Daisy told her that nothing really surprised her anymore. Priscilla couldn’t figure out if that were a good or a bad thing. But she didn’t ask other than make a slight nod.
When she was asked if she was all right, the silence that spread between them was almost deafening even though a pop song was playing from the speakers in the car. The thunderbird let out a soft sigh as she let a small chuckle leave her. “I’ll be all right; I just worry about what will happen next; Joseph isn’t a man that you should try to piss off” she licked her lips and let out a sigh as the smile on her lips faltered again. “Especially if you have something to lose” for a moment, she had forgotten she had that. Been so occupied by feeling sorry for herself that it had felt like Joseph was the only person in her life, and given that she was meant to be his, she hadn’t even questioned who he was or what he was known to have done. What a fool she had been, a blind fool just running around behaving like a disgruntled teenager.

Joseph isn’t a man that you should try to piss off, no and she wasn't about to adding herself nor her family to his list of interest - even if she might already have done so, but something told her that even so - her name wouldn't have been more than a skip away to be added. Because she knew Maya had told her about Joseph had tried pretending to be a teacher for a while, another reason why Daisy found herself almost surprised that she hadn't just completely finished the guy off once he was knocked out. Maybe it was the amount of blood on her hands lately that seemed too much, who knew. "You got us now, even if some might say it puts more on the list to lose, it also put in a whole list of people who will have your back, okay?" Daisy wanted to assure her, even if they hadn't really known each other, like at all, well Daisy had Priscilla's back, and it wasn't like Daisy didn't know a few people if not a lot, that would be able to put up a fight if Joseph was stupid enough to return. "No one is going to judge you for whatever made you get caught up with him, people make mistakes, realizing them and learning from them is what makes up for it," Daisy looked back towards Priscilla with a slightly warmer smile.

Priscilla lifted a hand off the wheel, letting her fingers glide over her brow where she had felt a soft burning sensation; she had to have hit her head when she had fallen through the glass, which in all was something she should count herself lucky, that it wasn’t worse than that.
She turned her eyes towards Daisy as she told her that even though it might mean she had more to lose, it at least meant she had someone in her corner. A soft smile formed on her lips, and she nodded. “True”, she whispered, feeling how the air slowly disappeared, and she was starting to feel how tired she was beginning to become.
Then a burst of laughter, but not a joyous one, left her as her fingers glided over the corners of her lips and then down her chin. “I should know better still; I have two young children that would have been in harm’s way; something is telling me that he found out about them”, even though she had made a relatively good job of making sure that no one knew about Thomas and their shared children she wouldn’t put it past the siphoner. “I just hope that Vidar makes sure that he is on the bottom of the ocean somewhere, and no one will ever pull him back up”, even though she was sure that there was someone out there that would eventually find their way to his grave and make sure that he came back to haunt the people that crossed his path.

Daisy couldn't say that a guy like Joseph wouldn't come to harm her kids if he ever got free, nor could she say her own children would be safe from him. It was the danger of this life, but she knew ways to keep them save, and she trusted the people whom she was surrounded with to help her keep them safe. "I'm sure Vidar knows what he is going, and knows just who to contact when it comes to make sure we won't see that bastard for a while, and to be sure - I'm sure I can ask my boyfriend if he would make a protection spell that will keep them safe from being tracked down," she took a sharper breath in. This meant she had to also include both Nigel and Cassian in the matter of her just having pissed Joseph Blackwood off. "I have some rather amazing resources, and so does Vidar - we will make sure something gets cooked up to at least let us know if the moron makes up it up from his dive experience," Daisy assured. Because that was all the could promise, that they would deal with the issue if there was to become one. "How old are your children?" Daisy asked curiously.

Priscilla chuckled a little when she mentioned that she would be able to know if Joseph ever decided to get up from his little diving experience. If he ever did, she wasn’t sure that any resources would be good enough to ever keep the mad man from getting what he wanted, but she liked the idea that she wasn’t alone anymore.
“I got Claire, my oldest daughter. She was born in 2017, making her four soon turning five” a smile grew a little wider, even though it hurt to talk about, knowing that she had missed almost a year of her life and was already growing up so fast. “Then we have Benjamin, the youngest he is turning tree soon” once again, she was struck by how time had passed, and if anything, all of this had only remembered her that she needed to get back to her family to understand the value of what she had, rather than keep hunting something she might never be satisfied with. Just like she had blamed her breakup with Thomas on the fact that she needed to find her brother when all it was really about was her getting scared of starting a family only to have it ripped away from her again.

It was rather young children, but there was something in the way she spoke. One could call it a mother's intuition that she knew that Priscilla hadn't been that close to her children. "Claire and Benjamin, I will look forward to hopefully meet them one day," she gave Priscilla a warmer smile. "I have two daughters, but they are both all grown up by now -" she shook her head a little bit as well realizing how fast time went. Not that she really could say that with Maya, yet, she had gotten so used to having her oldest daughter back in her life that she sometimes forgot that Maya had not always been there, an aching feeling realizing there was still things she didn't know about her oldest daughters story. "Maya and Katelyn, I'm sure they both would very much like to meet you one day two," even if she knew her girls were getting a little sick of all the family additions time to time, they both loved their family members. Daisy was still waiting for the day she could tell them about their birthright Tidus had thrown in her head regarding Spira. The only one she really had talked about Spira with was Cassian, and if it hadn't been for all the crazy in her their lives lately she would have gotten more into it. But she had prioritized them finding Riggs at first hand, and getting those pieces put together.

Priscilla let out a small breath, feeling the stab in her heart when Daisy spoke about meeting them one day, she hoped that could be possible too, but that meant that Priscilla couldn’t make another fuck up, and even though she really tried, she had a tendency to do stupid things without thinking about the consequences of her actions, being involved with Joseph was already a great indicator of her ignorance and irrational behaviour.
She nodded without looking at Daisy when she spoke about her own two daughters and how they would like to meet her as well; a small smile formed over the thunderbird's lips as she thought about it. Maybe a part of her was still afraid of family, even if she knew the members linked to her by blood were many, she had never really felt it, all her life in a quest to find her brother. A brother that had sent her away when she had finally done so.
“Yeah, I would like that too,” Priscilla finally answered and looked shortly at the woman by her side “, and hopefully you’ll be able to meet my children as well, I just” she felt the need to fill her lungs with air and let it go again before she could continue, “Their father and I broke things off, and I’m in the process of trying to make things right again, which is a long process” she spoke rather truthfully, feeling the comfort of letting it off her chest.

Daisy wasn't unfamiliar with the co-parenting thing, even if she perhaps had been on the other side of it. Being the one who had to forgive where her and Nigel had went wrong back in the day and allow him to become back into her and Katelyn's life. Not that it had been hard for her to forgive, but she knew every case was different. "Sometimes showing up makes the difference, I hope you will get things sorted out with them," she replied with a warmer smile. It was a tough subject and Daisy was happy that Priscilla trusted her with it. "You seem like the kind of woman once you put your mind into something, you will get it done. Just believe in her and you will get there," Daisy pulled her smile a little bit bigger and looked towards her newfound sister for a moment. It was easier said than done, she knew that, of course she knew that. And if it was easy no one in this life would struggle with relationships or simple actions, but Daisy also believed that if one put in the effort and showed that things had changed. Well, then there was a reason to believe in that second - or sixth chance, depending on how many chances one needed.

It resonated with the young thunderbird when Daisy told her that sometimes it was just the showing up that would make the change, but she also knew it took more than that. It would take a million show-ups, it would mean she could never miss a single thing, the constant pressure of knowing that if she didn’t keep a date, it would take her back to the start, and even worse, it would end up costing far more than she was willing to pay.
“You got that right”, Priscilla chuckled with a dry laugh, “I think the only time I ever backed down was when my brother told me that he wasn’t ready or didn’t want to have anything to do with me” maybe she overdramatised it a little. Still, it had hit her harder than she cared to admit, it was only then she realised she had misspoken, and a shaky breath left her. “Sorry, it's some nasty business, my baby brother was kidnapped, and our house burned down when I was a teen – just found out that the man who orchestrated it was the very man we just sent to the bottom of the ocean” what a rough day I had turned out to be, reunited with some of your family, and then finding out that the man you had used almost a year with, had been hiding the very fact that he had been the one causing her a life worth of pain.

She could imagine family rejecting you would knock you out for a hot minute or two, if Maya hadn't accepted her, Nigel and Katelyn, she didn't know what she would have done. Tried to accept it? Far from. Daisy shook her head a little bit, had not even realized it wasn't something she was supposed to know anything about, at this point tragedy was more or less just a casual topic while conversating these days. But even so she raised her brow by the mention of Priscilla's younger brother had been kidnapped back in the day. Wait she had heard some sort of story like this before, mostly by Maya briefing her about Jack and who he was. "Wait - Jack, don't tell me his name is Jack, the world cannot be that small?" even so another wait, did her sister and her ex boyfriend share a sibling - what on earth was this. Daisy was a bit pale for a second, feeling a bit nauseous for another one, then thanking her high IQ for being able to pick up the paste on what had happened, and she could exhale again.

Priscilla blinked, and for a moment, she forgot that she was actually driving a car; it was only when she looked up that she realised that she was moving a little too close to the ditch, and she quickly corrected where the vehicle was placed on the lane. “Yes, I’m sorry, yes, his name is Jack, Jack Robin” she pressed her brows together, letting her tongue run over her lips while trying to figure out why she knew about him, but there could be many ways—she had, after all, told her that she had daughters, maybe one or both of them was attending the Academy where he was now a teacher. So perhaps that was how she knew whom she was talking about, but something told Priscilla that it was far more than just that—and she could guess what, which made a laugh leave her. Not one of joy, but simply just disbelief “oh, that is the family he decided to open up to, now is it” she let out a big sigh and felt how her hands grabbed the steering wheel a little tighter, turning her knuckles white while she did so.