Nobledark Academy 2: Deadly Truth by Laney Powell

Author:Laney Powell [Powell, Laney]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-07-22T16:00:00+00:00

The beeping of my alarm made me nearly fall out of bed. Katherine. I had to get out of here so I could help Katherine. That thought sent me to the shower, and I was on my way to see Madame Karathos within thirty minutes. My hair would be wet all day, as I’d braided it and pulled it up around my head, but this was more important.

When I knocked quietly at her door, she had it open and whisked me inside before I could even open my mouth.

“We will need to hurry as we must take a longer way to where she is,” Madame Karathos said. She turned and went around her desk. Pressing something in the case behind her, under the pictures that were on the wall, she stood back, and the far-right bookcase swung inward.

“How come—” I began.

“Because you’re not supposed to know. Quickly,” she walked in, and I followed.

“Stop,” Madame Karathos said. She closed the case and then did something that caused small gold sparks to leap from her hand to the case. “Now we’ve got a good thirty minutes. Will that be enough time?”

“I guess,” I said. “I’m kind of winging it here.” My idea, which seemed nothing short of brilliant last night, felt a little overdramatic and egotistical today. My mother used to say, Nothing ventured, nothing gained. That was the principle I was working with.

“Winging it?” Madame Karathos walked in front of me. “Just what are you planning, Olivia?”

“I wanted to try the same spell I—we—used last night,” I said to her back.

“The banishment spell?”

“Yes,” I said, feeling like maybe my idea was worse than I thought.

She walked on in silence, then said, “It’s not a bad idea, Olivia. That particular spell is not one I’ve used, so it’s worth a try.”

“I hope so. I can’t let her stay down here,” I said.

“That’s not your call,” Madame Karathos said. “Now we need to be quiet. These corridors echo.” I heard the warning in her voice.

For the next ten minutes, we walked down small, narrow stone-line corridors, making abrupt twists and turns, and going down three and four steps at a time. We made a final turn to the left, and we were in a larger, stone hallway.

Madame Karathos waved a hand and torches on the wall burst into flame.

“It’s really a dungeon,” I said. “I kind of thought you were kidding.”

“The school is far older than it seems,” Madame Karathos said, striding ahead. She walked to a door, pulling a key from her pocket. “Come. We have to get inside quickly. She will try to run.”

I hurried to her side.

She unlocked the door, and I walked in. I heard it shut, and then Madame Karathos was behind me.

On the bed lay Katherine Munro. She was sleeping. The room was nice, as nice as a dungeon cell could be. The bed looked comfortable. She had a chair, and a small table. There was a plate of food half-eaten on the table. A shelf on the far wall held about ten books.

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