Pan and Jun (Dark and Twisted Lore Book 1) by Rhea Essie

Author:Rhea, Essie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-12-02T00:00:00+00:00

17

HOOK

Icouldn’t focus. Usually, I looked forward to my evening class. Astrology was one of the easiest classes this semester. Madam Sol was a quack. Rumors circulated that she didn't have the qualifications needed to teach, and some even said she was only a fae sympathizer with unfortunate family history and a plain name. Which, I absolutely could believe because what kind of name was Madam Luna Sol? But who was I to judge? Even if her name was actually Susan Higgs, from Sandusky, Ohio. Somehow, she’d found her way into this secretive and magical society and even when she spoke utter nonsense, she was entertaining and knew a lot about the stars.

I, too, was no further qualified to be here than her. My spot had been purchased with greed and the fact that my father had grown up in Alfhaim.

Madam Sol gestured to the skies above, using her remote to open up the observatory's ceiling. The building was entirely made up of glass and metal, the dome shape was large and settled only up the hill from Professor Bromley’s conservatory. A stupidly large NASA quality brass telescope sat right in the middle on a platform while our seats congregated around it.

“Miss Hook, would you care to begin our viewing of the constellations?” She called me down, motioning me to the stool beside the telescope. “I’m sure you’re rather familiar with telescopes, given you grew up on a pirate ship.”

A few snickered, and I rolled my eyes as I made my way down the amphitheater steps. Spyglasses are similar instruments to telescopes, but it was the twenty-first fucking century and I’d never seen my father use one. Soft gasps and murmurs went up as I climbed the steps to the telescope, and I didn’t need to look around to know why. The observatory, like the conservatory, was always hot. So, I’d decided for once in my life to wear short sleeves, a conscious decision fueled by the fact that Pan was unbothered by my missing hand and I figured it was time that I too live my life unbothered.

Madam Sol frowned down at my missing appendage as she adjusted the settings on the telescope for me. “Staring at it won’t make it grow back," I said bitterly, tucking my arm against my body and lowering my eye to the lens. It was rude, but I’d grown tired of pity and everyone’s morbid curiosity.

Clearing her throat, she stepped away from me and the lights went out once more with a click of her remote. “Now, Miss Hook, can you tell me what constellations best represent the death fate?”

“Corvus.”

“Represented with a raven, Corvus best represents death. But fo—”

She droned on about fate written in the stars and the differences between earth’s stars and majesty of the ‘heavens beyond the veil’. But tuning her out, I replayed the conversation with Pan in his kitchen over and over again.

I was his ruin, he said. Written in the stars. Fate’s decision. And something about the dreams he spoke of grated against my skin.

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