Fire Games: A Young Adult Fantasy (Arcturus Academy Book 3) by A.L. Knorr

Author:A.L. Knorr [Knorr, A.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Intellectually Promiscuous Press
Published: 2020-11-16T16:00:00+00:00

Five days later I still felt like a stringed instrument, but a finely tuned one. While the game-makers worked on the next challenge, Tomio had put me through daily paces. Each team was given access to the CTH for five hours every day to train, but with an hour between the training times. It seemed like a lot of effort was being made to keep the teams from running into one another. We saw the Firethorne team in the cafeteria during meals, but even there, they were given a table on the opposite side of the room to ours. And we had to alternate which group got served first.

“Who do you think is behind the strict rules to keep us apart?” Harriet murmured one lunch hour over a ham and pea soup that was straight out delicious. Either Lars’ cooking had improved, or we’d become accustomed to it. Maybe a bit of both.

“Babs, obviously,” Tomio said, tearing his bun in two and dipping into his bowl. “Do you think Christy or Basil would care so much?”

“I don’t know, maybe it’s the game-makers,” Peter suggested, his cheek bulging. He looked into his bowl. “This stuff is growing on me.”

Cecily put her spoon down. “It could just as easily be Basil. He warned us against making friends. Or it could even be the lawyer. What did you say his name was, Saxony?”

“Mr. Pendleton,” I said, blowing on a steaming spoonful more from habit than from any desire to cool my food. It wasn’t like hot soup could burn me. “But it’s not him. He didn’t make the rules, he just facilitated the meeting and drew up the contracts. I don’t think he cares about the details as much as everyone following the rules. I think Tomio is right.”

He nodded. “It has to be Babs. She doesn’t want us to mingle with her students.” Tomio leaned into the table, eyeballing our faces one by one, his tone full of implied meaning. “She’s afraid of what we’ll discover.”

“We all know what you’re trying to discover,” Peter’s brows waggled lewdly. “Got rejected again, didn’t you lover boy?”

The whole team knew by now that Tomio had taken it upon himself to dig for intel on Eira, since Basil and Christy wouldn’t tell us anything. They were bound by the agreements they’d signed. The whole team also knew that Tomio had gotten exactly nowhere.

“My interests are purely professional. I promise. She’ll crack. Just you wait. No one can resist these charms.” Tomio gestured to his flat abs and rounded pectorals.

The table laughed.

I looked over at the Firethorne foursome, stooped over their food and talking quietly. Eira was on the end, not appearing to engage in conversation with her teammates. She sipped small spoonsful of soup and took small bites of buttered bread, chewing slowly and thoroughly before swallowing. I took advantage of her lack of awareness to study her profile. The button-nose, generous lips, rounded cheekbones and gently sloping jaw. Her hair reflected the cafeteria’s lights, gleaming like it was sprayed with lacquer.

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