Shadow Walker (Neteru Academy Books) by L.A. Banks

Author:L.A. Banks [Banks, L.A.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Leslie Esdaile Banks, LLC
Published: 2010-12-10T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Wil took her through back hallways, hidden corridors and stairwells she’d never explored before. Beyond lost, all she could do was stay on his heels. But then she recognized the classroom level of the school and her pulse began to normalize. Okay, familiar ground, and nowhere too scary.

“Listen,” Wil said to her in a quiet tone, stopping for a moment to catch his breath while holding her arm.

Sarah strained to hear, and after a few seconds she heard Tami’s voice, heard her girlfriend giggling. Relief swept though Sarah and made her slump against the wall next to Wil.

“Thanks,” she said in a near whisper, now feeling completely foolish for her panic. She closed her eyes and leaned her head back, wishing she could just slide into the mural on the wall and disappear.

“It’s cool…. I know she’s your friend, and it’s okay to be worried about a friend.”

Sarah looked up at Wil, keeping her voice low like his. “I know it was stupid, but I just don’t trust him.”

Wil nodded and didn’t tease her. “You’re right to trust your instincts… something’s not right with him, that’s for sure.”

“Glad it isn’t just me,” Sarah said, straightening. She looked up and down the corridor. “But how’d you know he’d come here and not the library… or the Great Hall, or somewhere else?”

Wil offered her a sheepish grin. “If I tell you, I swear, Sarah, you cannot tell anybody, especially none of the school officials.”

She stepped closer to Wil and glanced around the vacant hallway, and then looked up into his honest eyes. “I promise,” she murmured, but it was more than words, it was a sacred oath.

He clasped her hand in one of his broad palms and then put a finger to his lips, leading her to a classroom door. Sarah peered in through the window at the top of the door but saw nothing except a large, dark swirling gray mass in the back of the room that obscured the second blackboard, chairs and part of the wall.

“Whoa…”

“Yeah,” Wil whispered. “They went in there.”

Sarah turned to him quickly, seeking answers in his expression, and then looked back through the closed classroom door.

“It’s a portal to town,” Wil said in a conspiratorial tone. “Right now, faculty is keeping a sharp eye on the Shady Path in the library, the Great Hall… most of the places everybody goes to so they can… you know—do whatever. So those are hot zones. But last month a couple of Uppers figured out how to pull the portal they found in town into Mr. Everett’s Inter-dimensional Shift classroom. Nobody monitors the classroom halls at night, especially tonight, during the luau.”

“Are you serious?” Sarah’s gaze went from the swirling mass to stare directly at Wil.

He looked at her and smiled, seeming pleased that he was able to offer her new information. “Yeah, pure truth,” he said stepping closer. “But it’s dangerous to go through unless you know how to fend off anything that could have been swept up in there.

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