"Okay, I'll help you," she finally said. "But one question. Who is Zelda again?"
"Your other best friend."
"Look..." Athena paused. She didn't really have any close friends. Sure, there were a few other goths in the school, and they did hang out, but they were older and didn't have much in common. "You're saying I have two best friends, and they are gone?"
Jon nodded, frantically. "Don't you have some sort of anti-magic, or magical protection stuff?"
Athena fingered her anti-magic pendant self-consciously. It seemed warm. That might be an indication something was afoot...but it wasn't designed for anything like what Jon was describing. It obviously wasn't protecting her, or she'd remember the two people Jon said...assuming they had existed. "It's not that simple," she said. "You can't protect against something without knowing what it is...general wards can't do everything. And mixing magics can have other effects. Like mixing chemicals."
