Zodiac Academy Fated Throne - Caroline Peckham Page 0,226

that throne?" Darcy suggested.

"Oh, what sense this makes!" Geraldine gasped. "I have long since admired what a dashing and magnanimous figure you cast and now knowing that you are indeed a prince-"

"Let's not get carried away," Gabriel interrupted as Max muttered something about him not being that dashing. "I'm part of a royal line, not a prince and I don't see any future where I even travel to our mother's home country let alone have any interest in claiming some foreign throne. My heart and my family are in Solaria and I intend to stay here and stand by my sisters' sides as they rise up and claim the throne. Then I'll serve them as their Royal Seer. That's it. Anyway, back to the point at hand, I can't see anything about this star. Nothing. I can't even see which one of you will take it from my hand. So I'm almost certain that it's shielded from my visions in the same way as all of the stars' decisions are. They gift me The Sight when it comes to things that affect people I know or love, but they don't allow me to see their movements with things such as Elysian Mate bonds and this feels the same."

"So Vard shouldn't be able to see it either?" I asked hopefully.

Gabriel's upper lip peeled back at the mention of Lionel's choice for a Royal Seer. "No. That two bit con artist doesn't have a tenth of the control over The Sight that I do. I'm willing to bet the only reason he even manages to see anything at all is because he's sitting his unworthy ass in the chair in the Royal Seer’s Chamber and using the power of it to amplify his meagre abilities tenfold."

"So how come you didn't just sit in it and see everything you could ever want to see during the summer while Darcy still lived in the palace if it’s so amazing?" Seth asked, giving Gabriel an accusing look and Gabriel sighed.

"I did. I sat in it multiple times and tried everything I could to get it to work for me, but it’s enchanted to only work for the Royal Seer and seeing as I am not that and Darcy couldn't give me the title unless she claimed the throne, it wouldn't work. Believe me, I tried everything I could think of to make it work for me, hoping it would show me some way for us to get to Tory."

Gabriel's pained gaze moved to me and my heart twisted at the thought of what they'd all been through while I was held by Lionel in his manor. I knew they'd done everything they could and I couldn't imagine how much it had hurt my siblings to know there was nothing they could do to save me while terrified of what was happening to me. It would have sent me insane.

"So if we can hide the Imperial Star then there should be no way for Lionel to ever even find out we have it?" I asked and Gabriel nodded.

"Let's just test my theory about me not being able to see it first. I'll close my eyes and one of you throw it at me. My Sight always warns me of something aimed my way like that so if I don't see it then we know it truly is shrouded by the stars."

Gabriel closed his eyes and Seth snatched the star from Darcy with a gust of air magic before launching it at Gabriel's chest way harder than necessary.

I sucked in a breath as it smacked against his pec and he grunted a curse as the rough edge of it cut his skin open while Seth saved the Imperial Star from falling to the ground with his magic and guided it back down to the table.

"Ow," Gabriel snarled, opening his eyes and narrowing them at Seth.

"How can we be sure that proves anything?" Caleb asked. "I know you think you would have seen that coming, but maybe you wouldn't really see anything we threw at you and the Imperial Star is no different."

Gabriel tutted as he healed the cut on his chest before levelling a look at Caleb. "If you want me to prove it then throw whatever else you like at me," he taunted, closing his eyes again and waiting.

Caleb smirked as he leaned forward, lifting his hand and casting round stones into his palm before throwing them at Gabriel one after another. My brother caught each