*~Gabrielle's POV~*
I was thinking it through, calming down, and not making any anticipation. But my head was boiling. I twisted my fingers in anticipation. My heart was beating very fast.
Calm down, Gabrielle. I told myself for the hundredth time.
I just need to find the phoenix stone, very surely, as I did go to find. And I can't kill myself. Never. That's bad. I'm the only person making Lucy insane right now. If I kill myself then… the thought of what's going to happen if I pick on the impossible just makes my whole self shiver. No. That's bad.
Then right there, I held the book again, hoping it's on again.
"Please, just let me answer one question. Help me answer just one more. I'm the white wolf, and I command you to give me one more question," I said, but the book did not even react at all. Not a single flicker of pages, or even a single word on it.
