Sorcerer's Academy by N A K Baldron

Author:N A K Baldron [Baldron, N A K]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aconite Cafe
Published: 2020-03-31T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

AFTER A BRIEF CONGRATULATION the apprentices were escorted to a banquet hall on the third floor of the tower. That’s where the other sorcerers had been- preparing for the celebrations.

What if we hadn’t passed? Ren transmitted.

I guess we’d be eating a consolatory dinner, Shaya transmitted.

The room was a perfect circle—not a single straight wall in sight—large enough to seat five hundred or more sorcerers, but this evening, enough tables were placed to serve two hundred max. The tables had been arranged in three circles, leaving a large opening in the center where a platform had been erected and a three-piece orchestra played without musicians. The instruments were displayed in stands, and beautiful harmonies sung forth.

I’ll never get tired of magic, Goban transmitted.

Ren had to agree. How? How was it possible that music could play itself?

Nadia led them to a table that was slightly offset from the rest. Six place settings were arranged in a half circle around the table, so their backs would be to the tables behind them, and they could watch the festivities on the open floor.

“Dancing will be optional,” Nadia said in response to the look of discomfort on Abaze’s face.

Shaya’s face glowed, and Ren promised himself he’d ask for a dance—though he hadn’t a clue how.

“The others will arrive soon,” Nadia said. “You can wait in your seats or wander around, but please do not leave this room.”

She left before they could respond—always quick to be about her tasks. Ren wondered if she ever stayed put in one place for long. He imagined her walking the grounds at night unable to sleep.

The apprentices quickly took their seats with Ren and Abaze taking the far ends. Shaya switched places with Goban so he could sit next to Ren, and offer Adaku someone to speak with. They may have just worked together to summon a wall of light, but the twins weren’t reconciled. Adaku kept her back turned to Abaze, though she sat next to him.

Over the course of the next hour, sorcerers made their way into the banquet hall and took their places at the tables. There appeared to be a pre-arranged seating order, for some groups of sorcerers who’d arrived together didn’t sit together.

The music stopped.

The sorcerers all stood, and the apprentices followed their lead.

What’s this? Ren transmitted.

A man dressed in vibrant purple robes, with a beard as long as his torso, walked into the room flanked on either side by two sorcerers. On the old man’s right, the sorcerers wore red and blue, on his left they wore green and white.

Nadia slipped into the open chair beside Abaze. “The Archamethyst.”

Ren had heard of him before, but he didn’t expect the man to be so old. He was a bit surprised the old man could walk, and then remembered magic, and realized it must be the answer.

The five stopped before the center platform, directly in front of their table.

“Welcome,” the Archamethyst’s voice amplified throughout the room, as if he were speaking right next to Ren.

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