New Angels (Lochkelvin Academy Book 5) by Evie Kady

Author:Evie Kady [Kady, Evie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-07-22T18:30:00+00:00

I’m browsing the library the following day, and something is different.

Where Danny had been reading books on royalty, the entire shelf is now bare. At first, I assume it’s due to the librarian’s delay in restocking after Arabella’s absurd tantrum, but then I notice it’s not just the royalty section that’s missing — the whole history section has been cleared out, too. A new protruding sign reads King James.

“Excuse me,” I say to the librarian, who’s busy sticking sheets into the inside of new books. “Where are the history books?”

He blinks at me, owlish. He’s a skinny man with a stubbly brown beard and weak, watery eyes magnified by glasses I think are intended to be trendy. Going on looks alone — which I know is wrong but damn is it often the most reliable indicator — he gets my back up purely because he so resembles an import from St. Camford. “The what?”

“The history books. The books on British royal history?”

“Oh, that,” he says with a small sneer. “No, we got rid of those.”

My blood runs cold. I feel like someone’s poured ice water down my back. “What?”

“Mm, instructions from above — and quite right, too. Very outdated. We have to ascertain students’ thinking.”

My legs suddenly become rubbery as my brain registers what I’ve just heard. “What?”

“It’s okay — we’ll have some brand new, gorgeous books filling up the shelves in no time,” he declares brightly, as though the general emptiness had been my issue. He picks up the top one from the stack beside him to show me. The cover is vibrant and glossy and artistic, an eye-catching contrast to the dull-looking ones that had been there previously. This one seems to be a book for younger children. There’s an illustrated, friendly-looking Benji, with big cartoon eyes and a shiny yellow crown, winking and sticking out his tongue while giving readers the peace sign. Smiling lions and happy unicorns dance around the background, where the black and red Antiro flag is positioned up high. In the foreground, Luke’s rich purple robe is drawn around Benji mid-swish. The title reads ‘King James Loves Animals!’

I get chills. I’ve never seen anything creepier — and to be purposefully designed for young children… It makes me wonder how quickly publishers can pump out this shit.

“But… the whole history section is gone.”

“Yes, we couldn’t risk any students becoming anxious should they come across a reference to — well, you know. Better to clear out the old, outdated books and start afresh. We’ll cross-reference and be a little smarter about what we let in from now on.”

Smarter, like the obvious propaganda clutched between his hands.

The librarian speaks so breezily, as though he doesn’t hear anything wrong with his words at all. On the contrary, he seems excited. “It’s a great library here. An incredible resource. When I worked at St. Camford,” he adds in a whisper, and I give a weary check to the box beside my earlier assumption, “it took the main library forever to devote shelf space to King James.

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