Spellcaster Academy: Episodes 1-4 (Spellcaster Academy Omnibus) by Jenetta Penner

Author:Jenetta Penner [Penner, Jenetta]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-28T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Holly sat to my left on the stone that Aspen and I shared yesterday at lunch. Next to us, Nine lay on the ground like a sphinx, his tail twitching. I clutched the ancient diary in my lap as the pink and gold light of the sunrise shone over the trees and glinted in the water below Eagle’s Height. The scene would have made for an amazing start of any other day.

But today every glimmer only left me empty. The professor was right: the creatures were gone. We didn’t see anything else from inside the portal after he vanished, but just as he’d instructed, we stayed until first light.

“Professor Lakeshore gave up everything to keep those creatures from finding us.” I hung my head.

“We don’t know that he’s dead,” Holly whispered. She stared transfixed toward the sun peeking through the trees across the canyon.

My mouth hung open, and I looked down at my trembling fingers. I was pretty sure that I’d never stop shaking again. “You saw those creatures surrounding him, and he isn’t here anymore. If he isn’t dead yet, he will be soon.”

Holly sat there stone-faced, and her eyeliner smudged down the side of her cheek. I’m pretty sure that she was still in shock. I know I was.

After a few moments, Nine glanced at us. Did Lakeshore ever tell you what the creatures were? Who sent them?

I dug into the memories of the past hours. Were they from the Directorate or the Morelli? Someone or something else? I was almost certain that Professor Lakeshore never said. Why?

I shook my head, and Nine blinked in acknowledgment. He rose and slunk to the canyon’s edge.

“We can’t go back to campus pretending that everything is normal, when we all know it isn’t.”

“What do you propose we do?” Holly asked. “Tell everyone that a man who was seen dead by at least twenty-five students actually wasn’t? But that weird smoke creatures took him, and he’s probably dead now?”

It’s the truth. Nine twitched his tail vigorously.

Holly pinched the bridge of her nose. “Truth or not, the whole thing sounds crazy. Then add in the story about the Morelli curse.”

I frowned. “Story? Is that all you think it is?”

She let out a long, exasperated breath. “I don’t know what to believe. Everything about last night was insane. Even if the whole curse thing is true, no one is going to listen because even if the Morelli were good at one time, they are trying to kill us now!”

I looked away. Holly was right. My uncle would have killed everyone on campus during the battle if my magic hadn’t ignited. I stared at the diary, desperately wanting to open it and learn more. There had to be a way to stop my uncle and repair the damage that had been done to the Morelli people—to my people. What the professor had told me last night spun in my brain. The Morelli were forced from The Side of Magic, and a death curse was put on them.

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