Prophecy by Layla Heart

Author:Layla Heart
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: 5 Times Chaos

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I try to keep to the back of the buildings, Kit at my side, away from the main routes that people take along the campus, making our way to the library and the tower of knowledge, more specifically, the prophecy room. Or, at least, that’s what Kit and I have been calling it lately, the ‘tower of knowledge’, because, what else would you call the tall part of a building where they have rooms for the manuscripts they don’t want the students to read, or the prophecies, or rooms for other things they don’t want students to see? It’s knowledge, even if it’s knowledge we’re not supposed to know about. But who is going to deny the princes? Who is going to stop us from going anywhere on this campus? If we want something, we’ll get it, no matter what we have to do to get it.

“If it wasn’t your dad, who else could have been in the prophecy room today?” Kit whispers, he can’t seem to let it go. The person in the prophecy room, the reason the light was on, it couldn’t have been Dad. Dad had been waiting in the main hall when we arrived for the yearly welcome and the supposedly shared breakfast, and he couldn’t have moved that fast between the tower and the main hall.

“I don’t know. Does it matter right now?” I hold up my hand, stopping him, as someone sneaks past, crossing our path, but it’s just one of the other students, a wolf like me. The guy doesn’t even notice us, probably too focused on wherever he’s going.

“How would I know if it matters? When we were in that room before the summer, it was obvious that nobody had been there in years. And now someone was in there during the day? On the same day Litha arrives at the academy? Don’t you think it’s suspicious?” He follows me behind the next building. We’re just three buildings over from the library, one more halls of residence and one of the classroom buildings between us and our goal for the night.

“Maybe.” I shrug before stopping him again, my whole body tight and alert. I move my head from side to side, I can’t hear anything unusual, or see anything, but there is a slight scent of scorched rosemary on the air.

“What?” Kit sounds annoyed at being held up again. “If you don’t want to go to the tower, just say so, instead of being all weird the whole time.”

I shake my head intently, frowning, and with a sigh, he quietens.

Then, I notice someone sneaking around the corner of the hall in front of us, the scent getting stronger, until a faint light illuminates the person enough to recognise her. Litha! What is she doing here?

“Hey, that’s...” Kit also sees her. He moves before I can stop him, sauntering over to Litha, and I catch a glimpse of the smug grin he’s put on. Oh, no.

I quickly follow him, Litha’s scorched rosemary scent stronger as I get closer.

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