The Wrong Road

**The Wrong Road** is the thirty-fourth chapter of Season 1 and the thirty-fourth chapter of the Lorecraft series. It started on May 21, 2018 and finished on May 30, 2018.

## Plot

After Jocelyn's outburst, she and Proto make their way to Jocelyn's room, where they find Sara and Natalie. Jocelyn profusely apologizes to her roommates but they both are quick to forgive her. Proto further supports Jocelyn as well. Natalie then notices Jocelyn and Proto holding hands and smiles. Jocelyn questions this and looks down at her hand and realizes it. She quickly pulls her hand away and blushes, embarrassed. Proto more or less shrugs at the fact while Natalie squees internally. Jocelyn tries to steer the conversation elsewhere and Sara complies. Jocelyn then mentions wanting to speak to everybody in another room. Proto says they can probably use Meryl's. Jocelyn asks Proto to call Carol and Amelia while she calls Lewis. Jocelyn and Proto call Lewis and Carol respectively at the same time. Jocelyn ask Lewis to meet them in Meryl's room and Proto asks Carol to do the same, and to bring Amelia with her. Lewis asks why but Jocelyn just tells him she just wants to speak with everyone. Lewis and Carol both agree and Proto tells everyone to meet in his and Lewis' room and go to Meryl's from there. After ending the group call, Proto and the three girls meet the others in front of his and Lewis' room and go to Meryl's. Proto asks if they can talk in there in private, which Meryl allows.

Jocelyn start by apologizing to everyone once again. They all accept the apology and support Jocelyn. She then goes to say something has been bothering her. She references the scene of Carol, Amelia and Sara at the Sacred Sanctum, reciting what she's been told by Sara, and adds that not even Darklaw knew about the hostile people that were there. Sara reiterates that they were very keen on not letting them in. Amelia continues, telling how it ended up in a fight that they all know the result of by now. Sara then tells them how she and Amelia fought one girl, and Carol fought the other, but also notes there was a lot of talking between Carol and her enemy. This catches Jocelyn's attention. When Jocelyn wonders about this, Amelia confirms what Sara just said, also noting how it is somewhat contradictory to Carol's usual approach to a fight. Jocelyn questions this, but Sara reconfirms what happened. Sara doesn't see anything wrong with it but Jocelyn looks at Lewis and Proto to see if they were thinking the same thing as her. Proto tries to confirm Jocelyn's line of thought, and Jocelyn questions Carol's ability to talk to them while Sara and Amelia couldn't. Proto asks Carol to confirm the stories that are being told, Carol suddenly becomes defensive. She states she told them not to kill Sara and Amelia. Jocelyn says Carol would sooner go aggressive than to talk things out. Carol points out Jocelyn has seen her fight before, but Jocelyn maintains that Carol couldn't have stood a chance if Sara didn't either. Carol points out that Sara had already used her Resonance in the Deathtalon fight. Jocelyn still doesn't believe Carol, who angrily claims to be telling the truth. Jocelyn then questions how Carol did not take a hit in the fight, Carol explains she did take several hits, to the point of being paralyzed by the time Darklaw intervened. Jocelyn further calls Carol into question, claiming they could've easily killed her and implies they kept her alive on purpose. Carol says they wanted to torture her. Jocelyn asks Carol why they'd have a vendetta against her. Carol, getting angrier by the minute, says she angered them by saying something fierce. Jocelyn is skeptical of this, despite Carol referencing her tendency to press people's buttons rather easily. Jocelyn then brings up Carol's initial reaction, and she deems Carol suspiciously defensive. Carol classifies this as a dislike of being dubbed a traitor. She expresses her value of friends and family, leading Jocelyn to suggest that the hostile people are her friends, and states that if she isn't a traitor to her and the others, she is a traitor to them. Carol quickly denies this, but Jocelyn still doesn't believe Carol, challenging her to make her believe her. Carol then challenges Jocelyn to read her mind with her Resonance, subtly activating her own Resonance. Jocelyn calls the bluff, but as she does, their Resonances clash and both suffer a pain to the head and fall backwards. Both wonder what happened when suddenly Sara, who's been watching this entire time alongside the others, finally steps in. She yells at both Jocelyn and Carol to stop this argument, with tears in her eyes, saying this is not what friends do to each other. This fills Jocelyn with guilt and she apologizes, but Carol says that sorry isn't enough and angrily storms off, brushing past Jocelyn. Sara wants to give chase immediately but Jocelyn stops her, taking her responsibility and goes after Carol, after asking Lewis, Proto and Amelia to cheer up Sara and Natalie, who like Sara was upset by the intensity of the argument between Jocelyn and Carol.

Jocelyn desperately tries to find Carol. Not finding any immediate trace, she tries Carol and Amelia's dorm room. Knocking on the door does not generate a response. Jocelyn gently asks Carol directly if she's there, but deduces she must not be from another lack of response, until she hears a sneeze coming from the inside. Jocelyn opens the door herself, treading carefully inside. She finds Carol inside, who addresses Jocelyn with animosity. Jocelyn tries to express her feelings of guilt over the situation, emptying her heart in front of Carol. Carol's demeanor towards Jocelyn turns around after a while, admitting that Jocelyn's accusation did anger her, she also assures Jocelyn she knows she has good intentions. The two continue their talk and eventually make up, returning to the rest of the group together.

As they return, Sara immediately begs for reassurance that the two returning girls are friends again, which both Jocelyn and Carol confirm, much to Sara's relief. Proto then informs Jocelyn that they agreed on not having enough information to make any deductions on anything. After mentioning the stressfulness of what happened, the group clears out of Meryl's room, but not before Meryl playfully mentions to Proto that she owes him, once more.

As night falls, everyone has gone to sleep, save for one person: Carol. Not only is she not in her dorm room, she sits curled up in a ball in the courtyard, silently. Her tranquil is interrupted by her communicrystal going off. A to her familiar voice calls her out to a location Carol supposedly knows. Carol tries to give herself some breathing room, but the other end of the call does not allow for this and demands her presence immediately. Carol teleport to a remote location, which appears to be a dark castle of sorts. She enters to find only one person: Elise. Carol gets very hostile and snarky towards Elise, who is about to threaten Carol when a new person appears, addressed by Elise as Lady Nephora. As Nephora appears, Carol immediately genuflects. Nephora begins by calling out both Elise and Carol for their obstructions during the events at the Sacred Sanctum. Nephora subtly raises questions about Carol's loyalty, but she is quick to reassure her, Carol's fear of this Nephora clearly apparent. As Nephora beckons Elise to accompany her to move into phase 2, she sends Carol back to Lorecraft Academy, but not before instilling more fear into Carol by very menacingly reminding her that she does not like failure. After Carol teleports back, she punches a pillar in such agony that her knuckles draw blood. She despairs about the situation she finds herself in, asking herself what she is going to do.

## Cast

* DoubleDubbel – Proto, Sara, Meryl, Elise, Nephora
* AGNerd-Bot – Lewis, Carol
* Mistrala – Jocelyn
* The Phoenix – Natalie, Amelia