Magical Creatures Academy 3: Mage Shifter by Lucia Ashta

Author:Lucia Ashta [Ashta, Lucia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-02T00:00:00+00:00

15

I hadn’t finished deciding what the flashes of golden light might mean before I had bigger things to worry about. Despite the addition of the ten mages from the Magical Arts Academy and now a handful of Enforcers, the Academy Spell was wonkier than ever.

The beginning and end of classes, which had always been strict, had become necessarily lax. The school bell continued to ring only on occasion, and when it did it was invariably at the wrong time. Even our personal alarm clocks didn’t keep time properly. The professors gave up on taking attendance until halfway through their classes.

Regardless, if you were late to class, you missed out on class material, and now more than ever I didn’t want to miss a thing. The golden light hadn’t flashed within me again, but I knew it had to have meaning. Something strange was definitely happening to me. Half the time I felt like a menopausal woman experiencing hot flashes. The rest of the time I was uncustomarily twitchy, expecting something to happen—and I had no idea what.

I knew the exact moment Stacy, Tracy, and Swan entered the small auditorium in Irele Hall. Their stares pricked against my awareness, dragging my gaze toward theirs. Tracy and Swan were apparently trying to fry me to a crisp right where I sat with the power of their hatred alone, but Stacy was worse. The usually animated redhead with a sneer always at the ready appeared despondent; even her bouncy curls fell flat, her lips pursed sadly together.

There’d been no solution to her barking problem, and I had less of an idea how to help her than the team of professors assigned to the task—the same ones assigned to solving the Academy Spell problem—who were entirely overwhelmed.

“Come on, students,” Marcy June called out from the head of the room, ready to get her Defensive Creature Magic class started. “Hurry it up before the door locks itself and some of you are stuck outside. Despite what the Academy Spell seems to think, we’ve got shit to do around here.”

As if the Academy Spell had registered the slight, the door to the Illumination Room slammed shut, separating a line of students who’d been heading inside. Dave peered through the glass on the other side; he was locked out.

Marcy June muttered curses under her breath. My skunk shifter friend in the seat to my left grinned as if Marcy June had just made her day with her mouthful of foul sailor talk. The professor stalked toward the door, wrenching on the handle with her shifter strength. When the door didn’t budge but the handle popped off, she threw her hands in the air and cursed some more until Jas stared at her with wide-eyed admiration.

She spun on the class. “How the hell am I expected to conduct classes like this? This is fucking outrageous!” Her nostrils flared while she paced angrily across the front of the room.

When she started taking deep breaths and straightened her shoulders, I knew she could teach classes in composure.

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