Hawthorn Academy: Year One by D.R. Perry

Author:D.R. Perry [Perry, D.R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2020-02-05T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Eight

We all sat in Bubbe's kitchen, chatting as the mercat rested in the other room. Bubbe set out a basin of salted water for her to climb into as needed, but the best thing to help her recover was rest.

"What's her name, Logan?"

"Uh, I'm not sure."

"Oh?" Bubbe raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah. It's not like I bonded with her or anything." He sat up straighter as though remembering something. "I almost forgot to mention, Doctor Morgenstern. I came to find my—"

Just then, Bubbe tapped her earring. I knew what that meant.

"Someone's in the lobby. Hang on a moment." She rose and headed out.

We all heard the murmur of voices out there. And of course, everyone recognized the new one. Dylan arrived early. He followed Bubbe in and leaned against the wall because we’d run out of chairs.

"They let me out of work because I got deliveries done so fast." He grinned at Cadence and Izzy. "Good to see you two ladies again."

Everybody said hello, the girls getting up to give Dylan hugs. Of course, I’d just seen him the day before, so I didn't bother. Logan didn't either, but he did stand up to share a handshake.

"You were saying, Logan?"

"Yeah, I'm here for my dragonet. Well, technically he's my parent's, but they sent him here with me, so he's my responsibility." He pulled his painting from the tube slung over his shoulder. “That’s him.”

"That’s a handsome little fellow, and yes, he’s here, although I’m not sure he’ll be happy to see you, Logan." Bubbe raised her eyebrow. She’d seen him turn away from the dragonet then, just like I had.

Dylan's mouth dropped open. He closed it before Logan, Izzy, or Cadence noticed, but I did. Ember too. She fluttered off my shoulder and over to Dylan's, rubbing her head against the side of his head, tousling his hair.

"What's up with that?" Izzy pointed, blinking at my dragonet's disloyal behavior.

"I don't know?" I slumped against the back of my chair. "She's never done that before. Bubbe?"

"Hmmm." My grandmother sighs. "I think it's time you all met our scaly runaway. Come along, everyone."

She led us down the hall toward the back of the office. The last room on the left was unoccupied and clean. Bubbe asked us to wait there, then left, heading back toward the blue dragonet's room. She returned in moments with the creature in her arms.

"So, here's the little man of the hour."

Logan was about to speak, but the dragonet cut him off. Instead of peeping like Ember he had a chirping voice. He clearly had no regard for the magus he’d come to Salem with, either. In fact, he squirmed madly, trying to get out of Bubbe's arms so frantically I was worried he'd scratch her.

Before anything like that happened, my grandmother let go. She was a good doctor and has developed a way with just about every type of magical creature over years of practice. It might not even be mysterious to her why Logan's parents would try to pair him with a dragonet that wasn’t even representative of his water element.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.