Halloween Trial by Casey Morgan

Author:Casey Morgan [Morgan, Casey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Professor Goldwin was probably about two feet tall. Oddly, nothing in his classroom was made to accommodate his height. The long tables that served as desks were all the normal size — one he could walk under. The tables were surrounded by tall bar stools, which were taller than the professor. Even Goldwin’s desk, at the back of the room, was a normal height, something that made absolutely no sense to me.

I was pretty sure he was a dwarf but didn’t want to ask because I figured that would be rude. I did, however, immediately try to pull my skirt down as much as I could when I realized that he was shorter than my hem. Angie caught my hand and mouthed the words, “Don’t be rude. He’s not looking anyway.” I tried to believe her but still didn’t feel comfortable until I slid onto one of the high, three-legged stools in his classroom.

“What can I do for you girls?” Goodwin asked. He had a friendly face, like an old hippy grandfather with long golden hair, pulled back into a ponytail. His eyebrows were unkempt, and they stuck out at various angles, covering much of his small forehead.

“Professor,” Angie started as she leaned onto the counter next to me. “This is Ruby, she is a new student here and —” she lowered her voice to a whisper — “she doesn’t have a focus point.”

Goldwin giggled. He took off his tiny pair of glasses and cleaned the lenses with part of his very green shirt. “Nonsense! How can a young witch not have a focus point?” He put his glasses back on and looked up at me. “What did you use in your classes before now?”

“Umm, well, sir…”

Angie sighed. “Ruby’s never done magic before.”

Goldwin’s bottom lip stuck out slightly as he frowned. “How are you at Ironwood, then?”

“My grandmother, Rose Green, paid for my tuition here. Sir, I have nowhere else to go.”

Goldwin studied my face for a few seconds. “Rose was your grandmother?” I nodded. “She was a friend of mine. We graduated the same year.” Behind his glasses, his blue eyes seemed to go a little distant as if he was reliving the past. “You know, Rose was almost top of the class. She was a very powerful witch.”

“I didn’t know,” I admitted.

That fact that my loving grandmother had this totally separate life bothered me a lot. I had had no idea that she could do magic. She never let on anything about it when I was a child. To me, she was just a normal grandmother who baked chocolate chip cookies and read me bedtime stories. Occasionally, we would cut flowers together from her ample garden, but she never did a single spell in front of me. Something about that made me bitter.

Goldwin seemed to understand what I was feeling. He nodded slightly, his lips still in a deep frown, and said, “I’m sorry, child. That was a lot of opportunities missed. I have no idea why

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