Darkwells Academy: The curse begins: An academy paranormalurban fantasy romance by Abby James

Author:Abby James [James, Abby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-19T06:00:00+00:00

16

I waited inside Dean McGilus’s office, as per the message, which had appeared on my scribe first thing this morning.

I glanced around me at the walls of book shelves filled with ancient looking spines and files, wooden boxes and masses of paperwork haphazardly stacked, some sheets threatening to spill onto the floor. I itched to go over and have a look, run my finger along the spines and see what sorts of medieval treasures he had stacked in this room. The books alone would cost a fortune sold at auction. What drew my interest was the detail within the pages. These books would contain centuries of supernatural lore, accounts of life before such things as supernatural academies existed, hundreds of thousands of pages of history about the other side of humanity, the side where people could do amazing and sometimes scary things.

My curiosity broke. I headed for the closest shelf. My eyes zeroed in on a thick volume, waist height. The cursive crawl of a title, running down the spine, told me nothing of what was inside. The book was fat and heavy so I carried it back to the desk as the last thing I wanted to do was drop it on the ground while I was pawing through the pages and tear the spine in half.

Hand written cursive scroll filled every page. Exaggerated swirls and words crammed tight together. No way would I be able to read any of this. I leaned in closer as if my distance was the problem, to realize none of it was written in english. I flipped pages and found the writing had changed, a different quill, or whatever they used back then, a greater slant to the left, or a smaller curl at the tail of the Y. Many people had contributed to this book, building on the knowledge through time.

I jerked like I’d been caught doing something illegal when McGilus burst through the door.

“Sorry,” he announced, “some important business came up elsewhere.” His eyes glanced to the book I had laid out on his desk.

“I’m sorry. I got bored and then curious.”

“By all means. These books are every supernatural’s heritage. Most at Darkwells wouldn’t bother to read then though. And some books are too subversive to be read.”

“Is this one of them?”

He leaned over my shoulder, adjusting his reading glasses farther up his nose. “Now that is an interesting tale.” He jabbed at the open page. “But not subversive.”

“Subversive in what way?”

“Anything that speaks out against the beliefs of the majority.”

“But that’s good, because the general beliefs of the majority aren’t always a good fit for everyone. And if no one bothered to voice their opinions the government would keep doing what they want without thought to the people who elected them.”

McGilus sat down in his seat. “That’s quite the speech. The subversion I am talking about is somewhat more dangerous than laws that make seatbelt wearing compulsory. Our history is no different to wissend history. We’ve had our a fair

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