Imdalind Academy: The Gauntlet: Book One by Rebecca Ethington

Author:Rebecca Ethington [Ethington, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Imdalind Press
Published: 2019-07-07T22:00:00+00:00

10

Gemma

“Damn. Is this really how you live? I mean, I’ve seen worse. Especially right after the war, but I had assumed we had moved past this.”

“You thought wrong,” I interrupted the bubbly ‘guard’ that had been sent with me to collect my things and my ‘one friend’ before I was shipped off to Imdalind Academy.

Or, what I was officially referring to as magic hell.

Although, that started the second they had assigned her to escort me to and from what had always been home.

Eyes followed us through the filthy blankets and makeshift homes that littered the main hall of Last Pyre. It had always been safer to sleep together, but now I realized how bad of a choice that was. After the Queen had centered my magic and fixed whatever it was that was making me so tired, I had been locked in some weird hotel outside the Gauntlet to heal, rest, and bathe according to the snooty Skȓítek that had taken me there. Which was all fine until we walked in here, into this wall of a stench that was nearing a level of harassment.

That I could deal with, though. The aroma was familiar. And as foul as it was, I didn’t want to leave.

I would gladly take this against fancy hotels, running water, and something called a buffet that I had sat at and stuffed my face until I threw up. Which, when you got right down to it, was why I subjecting myself to all of the rules and regulations and fancy hotels. So that it all could be familiar to everyone.

They deserved that too. I was going to give that to them. The path to get there had changed, that’s all.

Awe rippled through the mud streaked faces and hungry eyes as I walked through my home in search of the one person I was taking away from this mess.

“Gemma?” More than a few people whispered, shock radiating the air before they saw who I was with and more than a few Undermortals scuttled back into their makeshift homes, or out of the room altogether the look of fear, panic, and betrayal glancing back to me.

It was hard to be a bad-ass leader of the revolution when you were escorted by an Eternal. When you had brought an Eternal into the one place we were supposed to be safe.

Wynifred Krul was bright, overly happy, and quickly becoming a pain in my ass. If it wasn’t for the faint outline of tattoos that lined the entire left side of her body, I would say she didn't fit in here at all.

“All of this,” she continued, waving her hand in front of her. “This is balls. I’m going to fix it before it gets too gross and hair, although it might already be there. I’m bringing food, speakers, and holding a Styx dance-off down here next week. Sorry you have to miss it, kid. It’ll be epic.” She threw her arm around my shoulder like we were some kind of squealy girlfriends.

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