The Alchemists Academy Book 2: Elemental Explosions by Gow Kailin

Author:Gow, Kailin [Gow, Kailin]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: theEDGEbooks.com
Published: 2011-06-23T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

They had to wait almost an hour before Ender Paine summoned them up to the solarium. He stood in front of the foliage there as the second years filed in, regarding them all with his usual impatience. Once they were inside, the headmaster started to speak.

“As you know, one of our students has gone missing. More importantly, she is the daughter of one of the school’s major benefactors, and we cannot go around losing princesses any old how.”

The headmaster’s tone made it perfectly clear that losing any of them, on the other hand, would have been entirely acceptable.

“As such, you will all be expected to help in the search for Princess Priscilla. You are, after all, the ones closest to her. Form yourselves into groups and begin at once. That is all.”

People started to group themselves together. Wirt noticed that Alana moved to stand next to Roland almost immediately, while Spencer went over to join them. Wirt winced at that, expecting Alana to tell him to leave them alone, but she didn’t. Maybe she wanted to give Spencer the chance to make up for losing Priscilla, or maybe she just still had feelings for him. Wirt didn’t know which.

He did know he needed to be part of that group, and not just because he wanted to make sure that Alana was okay. Leaving Spencer and Roland together without him would just be asking for trouble. In fact Wirt doubted that they would get out of the door without some sort of fight. Alana smiled as Wirt moved over to join them.

With the groups assembled, they set off in search of the missing princess, heading through the transport tubes as the different groups tried to cover as much ground as possible. Wirt and the others did the same, shooting through the tubes with even more speed than usual, checking all the obvious places Priscilla might have gone.

They dropped into Llew’s cave, asking the dragon if he had seen her. He shook his head.

“Not recently, boyo. I’ll keep an eye out, though.”

They dropped by the library, in case Priscilla had taken her new lesson seriously enough to want to read up on it. The Thing in charge contrived to indicate, however, that it hadn’t seen her.

They even combed one of the stranger halls of the school, where gravity seemed to depend entirely on the perceptions of the people walking along its floor (and occasionally, its ceiling) just in case Priscilla had wandered in there and floated off.

At the end of that, Spencer shook his head. “This isn’t doing any good. We shouldn’t be searching randomly like this.”

“So you’re saying we should give up,” Roland shot back.

“Spencer isn’t saying that at all,” Wirt said, trying to keep the peace. “We just need to stop and think for a bit. We’re Priscilla’s friends. We should be able to work out where Priscilla might have gone rather than running around the tree without a clue.”

“And how do we do that?” Roland demanded.

“Maybe we should start with her room or something.

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