Course Schedules by Ivy Hearne

Author:Ivy Hearne [Hearne, Ivy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Belgate Press
Published: 2019-09-21T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

I arrived on campus completely winded. I’d been away from the thin mountain air all summer and hadn’t fully acclimated yet.

I couldn’t see Souji anywhere. It had been a while since I tried using my psychic communication powers, and I didn’t want to blast my question out to the whole campus like I used to, so I very carefully sent a tentative message.

“Souji? Where are you?”

Nothing. Not even the staticky noise I’d gotten earlier.

That was weird. Souji was better at psychic communication than I’d ever been.

I headed toward the woods, where I’d seen him last. As I approached the tree line, Caleb—still in his giant hound shape—came loping out.

“Any sign of him?” I scanned the trees anxiously.

Caleb shook his dark, shaggy head.

Why would he called me and then just disappear?

I glanced to Caleb. Surely that wasn’t the reason.

Souji wouldn’t interrupt my lunch with Caleb and completely terrify me just because he was cranky about me going out for a meal with some other guy, would he?

I bit my lip. He might, I admitted to myself.

But enough horrible stuff had happened since we’d started at the Hunters' Academy that I needed to take it seriously. I carefully closed my eyes and concentrated, drawing my attention down to single-point focus. Trying to make it like a laser beam, I sent my message out to Reo.

“I was in town with Caleb and got a message from Souji that he needed my help. Have you seen him?” I asked mentally.

The answer came back whip-crack fast. “No. I thought he’d be in class.”

Reo sounded like somebody’s dad.

“Just a big brother,” Reo responded.

Oh. Guess my laser-beam message wasn’t quite so tightly focused after all. “Sorry, didn’t mean for that to get through to you.”

“Sounds like you could use more psychics practice. Why aren’t you in class?”

“Souji and I have the same courses. The wrong ones. The ones we took last semester. Souji and I didn’t have anything assigned to us. We’re still waiting for new course schedules.

“I will check his dorm room and let you know,” Reo said.

“Sounds good. I’m in the woods where you were supposed to meet for your shifter run.”

“What shifter run?”

Reo’s question stopped me in my tracks. “When I saw Souji this morning he told me he was meeting you to go for a run in fur. Did that not happen?”

“We didn’t have a run planned at all,” Reo said.

That worried me.

Now my heart was pounding again, and not from the thin air or the run up the mountain. It was sheer terror. Far too many horrible things that happened for me to be okay with Souji lying to Reo or to me about going for a run with him.

“Caleb, do you have a sense of Souji’s scent?”

Caleb tilted his head and looked up at me reproachfully.

“I know, I know. You’re not a bloodhound or anything. But I was hoping maybe... then again, you haven’t ever even really met him, have you?”

I never actually seen a dog shrugged before, but Caleb managed it.

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