Exile by Lebellier Lola

Author:Lebellier, Lola [Lebellier, Lola]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2013-02-06T16:00:00+00:00

ALESS smiled, eagerly rushing to his friend’s room. Piers wouldn’t believe the good news, he thought.

Of course, he would leave out some details. There were certain… embarrassments he would rather not alert Piers to, especially since it had happened with Corin once before. He felt the flush caused by the memory while climbing down the stairs to the barracks, where he almost instantly collided with Selena.

Ever since he had arrived, Selena had been a pain in his ass at the best of times. No matter what he said, no matter what he did, the girl hated him. Sure, he had gone behind her back to try and take her apprentice, but she didn’t know that! Besides she’d hated him before that, so he figured it had to be fair on some level.

She glared at him with thinly veiled contempt.“Master Serac,” she greeted him, pursing her lips.

“Master Zephyr,” he replied offhandedly. “You know what, let’s just cut the formalities, Selena. You know who I am, I know who you are—”

“It’s really rude,” she scolded, looking to the side.

“You don’t make anyone else do it,” Aless interrupted. “You single me out. Why?”

“I let my friends call me Selena.”

“That isn’t true,” Aless countered. “I’ve heard students referring to you as Master Selena, and yet I can only call you Master Zephyr?”

“People I like can call me Selena,” she retorted.

Aless rolled his eyes. “And Serac be damned, you don’t like me.”

“Exactly,”Selena replied, trying to step past him. “Now, if you’ll let me—”

Aless slammed his fist against the wall, blocking Selena from passing. “No, I won’t. I want to know why. I’ve done nothing to you and you’ve shown me nothing but contempt since I got here!”

Selena glared a hole through Aless, almost managing to make the man flinch. “You’ve done more than enough to earn this!”

“And of course you’ll tell me none of this!” Aless retorted. “What’s the point in housing a spirit if I don’t even get a say in the important decisions? I know you’re all hiding something, and you know you’ll have to tell me—”

“You don’t deserve to be a guardian!” Selena yelled, making a few students in the nearby halls duck into their barracks, frightened by the confrontation. “Your status as a guardian has done nothing but ruin everything!”

“I was chosen to take this position by my master!”

“You were chosen because there was no one else!” Selena screamed, pausing and taking a deep breath. “You don’t have enough mana to house any spirit, especially not one as strong as Serac. Your master was sick, he had to choose someone. You know who has to make up for your awfulness? The ones who can actually do our jobs!”

Aless stood there with his mouth agape, hardly able to process Selena’s words.

“Now, if you’ll let me go, I have some actual work to do.” Selena snapped, pushing Aless’s arm away and leaving the Water Guardian speechless.

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