Remedies for Enemies: Magic & Misdemeanours 1 by R.A. Lindo

Author:R.A. Lindo [Lindo, R.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-12-29T16:00:00+00:00

11

Shifting Targets

With the midnight rendezvous over, attention returned to more traditional methods of teaching, namely the classroom based on the fifth-floor. Jacob had arrived early to prepare for the day, conscious of the weight of responsibility resting on his young shoulders. He knew more than he could say about last night’s hunt, and the artefact each student had found.

The fact each one was a bovie — an artefact with complex magical properties — bothered him the most, largely because bovies had unknown powers. This was another decision made by The Orium Circle, the lawmakers deciding the simplest way of assessing each student’s character was to offer them a magical mystery.

What The Fateful Eight would do with their powers was yet to be seen, leaving Jacob to explain the twist in the tale ... that they were being let loose to some degree. Geographical limitations remained — Society Square being the boundary they were forbidden to go beyond alone — but Jacob knew even this rule would blur in time, when the physical trials became more brutal and fear mixed with desperation.

His money was still on Katie to fall first, the girl so obsessed with winning. Power wouldn’t serve Katie well, Jacob knew, standing beside the desk of blue light he’d formed courtesy of the Canvia charm. Ethan would struggle with the same predicament, the mixed-race boy blessed with a famous name.

The Lyell name was synonymous with power and authority, although each had been earned by the legendary Lyells in the S.P.M.A., including Weyen and Lyell and his deceased sister, Ina. Whether Ethan could find the right balance of humility and bravery was yet to be determined, Jacob knowing this to be the hardest test his students would face.

Power, after all, did strange things to the lucky few, testing moral principles and turning heads in the wrong direction. It affected children as much as any other age group, filtering through flaws and dreams until it rested in the deeper recesses of the human mind.

The Society members tasked with running magical faculties had proven themselves worthy, able to master this difficult balance, humble enough to see themselves as servants to a greater good.

“Who survives?” Jacob whispered as he flicked a coin into the air, the silver coin formed from the Vaspyl he’d taken out of his trouser pocket.

Dressed in his usual attire of jeans, untucked shirt and Society tie, the teacher tasked with guiding the lucky few caught the coin, studying the face forming on its surface … of a boy marked with an equally famous name … Tom Koll … the pale, sullen boy burdened by an infamous uncle.

Time and time again, it was Tom’s face that appeared on the coin, Jacob wondering if the boy’s determination to atone for his uncle’s mistakes made him the favourite.

“Who fails?” Jacob posed, throwing the silver coin into the air again, deciding to put it back in his pocket without looking at the result, understanding the dangers of tempting fate and meddling with time.

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