Shifter Falls Academy- Year One by L C Mortimer

Author:L C Mortimer [Mortimer, L C]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sophie Stern
Published: 2020-01-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

On my first day of classes, I managed to make my uniform look somewhat presentable. The outfit wasn’t exactly flattering, in my opinion, but Jade told me that it looked “good enough,” so I collected the books that had been delivered to my room, placed them in my new satchel, and took off to my first class.

Potions promised to be a class full of interesting things. I always enjoyed chemistry in school, so I was excited to see that my potions class was almost exactly like chemistry had been in high school. The teacher, Mr. Melon, was a short, round man with a big smile. He wore a nice suit, which made me feel like the situation was a lot more formal than a standard classroom. I mean, my chemistry teacher in high school used to wear goofy math joke t-shirts and ripped jeans to class.

This was definitely a step or five above that.

Mr. Melon helped us go through the process of creating a very simple, but tasty potion that was designed to give you a small amount of energy. Apparently, it was supposed to provide you with the same amount of energy as a cup of coffee.

I didn’t want to ask why we couldn’t just drink coffee. It felt like a kind of obvious, yet really stupid question. I mean, why do anything at all with magic and potions? Why not just buy stuff at the store?

Besides, I was old enough to know that the point of the exercise wasn’t the specific potion. It was to get us to feel comfortable working with different ingredients and following directions. In order to create our drink potion, we had to mix everything very precisely. More importantly, we had to cook each part of the recipe in a very specific way.

By the time we finished the class, most of us had only finished half of the potion’s recipe. I felt a little bad about that until I saw that even Jade, whom I thought was a pretty smart student, was struggling with hers, too.

“Leave your potions on the side table,” Mr. Melon called out when the birds started chirping for our next class. That’s right. Birds chirped at the top of each hour. They were magically enchanted wooden birds that reminded me of a sort of old-style cuckoo clock, except that there were different styles of birds in each classroom and they each had their own natural sound.

I kind of hoped one of the classrooms would have a parrot.

Wouldn’t that be something?

“Make sure you label the potion with your name,” he continued speaking as we moved to set our stuff in the correct space. “Each potion should include your name, the year of student you are, and the name of your potion.”

“Mr. Melon?” I asked, reluctantly raising my hand.

“Yes?”

“Um, you didn’t tell us the name of the potion we were working on today.”

“Ah,” he smiled. He tapped his wand against his forehead, as though he was thinking or coming up with a wonderful idea.

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