Risen Episode One by Odette C. Bell

Author:Odette C. Bell [Bell, Odette C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Odette C. Bell

Chapter Seven

I made it back to the school.

This time it was a piece of cake to return to the dormitory.

Next time, it would be even easier to get through that section of the combat corridor.

Or at least that’s what I told myself.

I was too stuck in my head again. Should’ve noticed the dark cloud that had descended over the students I passed when I reached the accommodation level. Everyone was grim, cold like they’d all just jumped into the hearts of a freezer.

I fell into my old routine. I grabbed the elbow of an important committee leader as she ran past, pulling her up harshly like I was still her commander. “What’s going on?”

It was only a testament to how serious things were that she didn’t shove me off and tell me to know my place. She got a haunted look. Then it sharpened. “Aren’t you her roommate? You’ll be a witness.”

She didn’t explain a thing, but she dropped enough facts that my stomach curled. “Melanie? What are you talking about? What happened—”

I turned to the side.

I saw one of the teachers. A very specific teacher. She taught medicinal herbs. She also acted as the doctor, and when needs be, the coroner.

She walked past, wearing a heel-length black robe. It was the ceremonial garb she used to deal with the dead.

My fingers twitched then fell to my side. “Melanie is…?”

Say the word, a part of my mind spat at me. I couldn’t do it, though. This empty void opened up in my head, howling like the last wolf in the wastelands.

I staggered to the side. I locked my back against the wall. I stood there and just breathed.

Everything sped up as it rushed past me.

The coroner came; the coroner went. And then… I saw a body being carried out in a black magical shroud.

It had to be Melanie.

I went to fall. Couldn’t help it. The grim sight sucked the life out of me.

She… I’d seen her only – what was it…? About half an hour ago? How long had I been in the wilderness? She’d asked me to go out with her—

The second sad part of this equation struck me. She’d asked me to go out on the town. If I had, maybe I could’ve prevented whatever had killed her.

I just… I couldn’t. Couldn’t think, couldn’t function, couldn’t breathe, couldn’t do anything. Anything but just stand there as this empty husk of a woman.

People came and went. Everything sped up and slowed down in chunks as if my perceptual system had taken a beating.

I thought I’d remain there, ignored by most as they got on with the grim task of dealing with what was happening, but then a prefect dressed in a black blazer strode right up to me. The guy had glasses, all the better to peer over the frames of at me. “You were her roommate, right? I have already completed my preliminary investigations. You were the last to see her. She was killed in your dorm room—”

“She was killed… in our room?” I spluttered.

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