Faerie Gift (Fae Academy for Halflings Book 2) by Brea Viragh

Author:Brea Viragh [Viragh, Brea]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-11-29T16:00:00+00:00

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The school waited with bated breath to see if the detectives found any leads, clues, or possible persons of interest for Professor Reeds’ murder.

They did not.

When nothing happened, we all hesitantly moved forward with classes, though the whole thing left a bad taste in my mouth. Wilson didn’t have anything to say about it, either, and carried out his interview with me with a grim sort of dissatisfaction.

“I’ll let you know if we find anything,” he told me on my way out. Then crooked a finger for Mike to enter the office and give his statement.

Done. Over like I hadn’t stumbled over a half-eaten body for the second time. I walked out of the office in a daze.

What were the chances? These kinds of things I couldn’t make up, honestly. I lacked the imagination.

The exchange students…we barely saw them anymore. They must have damn near gone into isolation. They no longer sat in on academy classes and didn’t even eat with us in the cafeteria.

Whatever the old chaperone had snarled at Zinnia and Saffron must have been a warning given to all the kids, a warning to stay away from the rest of us. It even had me wondering if I’d been mistaken in thinking I’d been singled out. And no way to test that theory since they avoided all of us.

It didn’t make my job any easier, because although the tracking spell for the Augundae Imperium had failed, I still had no leads on the artifact beyond a hunch on the location. Right inside the Fort Knox of dorms.

I couldn’t very well go up to the door and ask to be let inside. I’d need a damn password and a drop of blood as well as an oath to do no harm. And so I told Melia the evening after I finally finished with Detective Wilson, scurrying to her room and spilling everything about what happened. She’d stared at me with sleepy eyes through my first sentence, snapping awake when I mentioned running into Mike, and practically lunging at me when I hit the part about Professor Reeds.

She didn’t understand it any more than I did. My suspicions did nothing but scare her, too. We decided to bide our time, at least for the moment, until we could devise a better plan. In the meantime, I could only hope Barbara didn’t get antsy and pressure me. My normal studies were stressful enough.

And now spring break was just around the corner. In my old high school, I was used to spring break being a time of madness. Kids went crazy for a chance to ditch school even for a week. Here at the academy, that wasn’t the case, and a somber hush fell over all of us once March rolled around.

The day before the official start of break, I sat in my bunk, pressed against the far wall where I thought Persephone couldn’t see me, chewing on a pen and thinking. Not sure why it helped me with the thinking but pen chewing wasn’t such a bad habit to have, considering the many alternatives.

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