Holmberg, D.K [Book of Maladies 04] Tormina by D.K. Holmberg

Author:D.K. Holmberg
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: ASH Publishing
Published: 2018-03-05T16:00:00+00:00

17

THE ASSIGNMENT

The university was quiet, calm for this time of morning, and Alec clutched his set of journals to his side, not wanting to drop them. The journals were his most prized possessions. They held his notes from all of the sessions that he’d studied, lessons that he’d had from the various masters, and he dreaded losing any of them. He no longer felt comfortable leaving them in his room, especially since Beckah had played that prank on him. If she was willing to play pranks, and was willing to compromise the accuracy of his journals, he would need to keep them with him.

But there would come a time when his journals would be too heavy to carry with him. Eventually, he’d have to store them somewhere else, and he wasn’t certain where he could store them safely.

“I’m not going to change do anything to your precious journals,” Beckah said, glancing over at him.

Alec looked over at her, and he only shrugged. “That’s what you want me to believe. How do I know that you won’t pull some prank on me again?”

“If I were going to play a prank on you, I wouldn’t do the same one. It’s only fun once.”

“It wasn’t funny the first time,” Alec said.

“Maybe not to you, but I thought it was funny.”

“Can you focus?” he asked.

“I am focused. Just because you’re worried about this doesn’t mean that I need to have the same concern,” she said.

“If what Sam told me was true, then we all need to be concerned.” Lowering his voice, he said, “If Marin has a Scribe in the university it puts us at risk.”

“Have you talked to Master Eckerd?”

“I haven’t been able to find Master Eckerd,” Alec said. That bothered him, though he knew that it shouldn’t. Master Eckerd owed him nothing, and as one of the master physickers, he would be free to pursue his own studies. There were other master physickers that Alec knew were Scribes, but he didn’t know them well enough, certainly not well enough to question.

“Well, now is not really the time to try to find him,” Beckah said. “If we are late to Master Carl’s class, he’s only going to be angrier at you.”

“Only me?”

“He might be angry at me, but if I come in with you, he’ll focus most of his attention on you.” She smiled. “That’s an added benefit of spending time with you.”

“Great,” he said.

“At least there are benefits to spending time with you.”

“You don’t have to. You’re more than welcome to avoid me.”

“If I did, I think you’d miss me.”

They hurried along the hall and came to their classroom. Alec was surprised to see that Master Carl wasn’t there, not yet. Where was he?

They took their seats, neither of them saying anything. A few others were present, but Master Carl’s lectures were never meant for a large class. He preferred to keep his sessions more intimate, better for him to harass more students.

“Where do you think he is?” Alec asked.

“I don’t know. Maybe we’re early.

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