The Ashes of My Soul by Christopher Nelson

Author:Christopher Nelson
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2019-11-30T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

I opened the door to my room, expecting to see Max and Drew. The room was empty. I double checked the time, then the date. It was nearly midnight on the last Friday of July, which meant today was the last day of finals. I knew where to find everyone if we were still observing our traditions. Andreas’s room was only a few steps down the hall.

It was a hard few steps. I’d spent the afternoon and evening in the Establishment infirmary. When I dropped, Burke carried me to the infirmary where a medic realized I’d left a couple pieces of myself behind with only a flicker of her Sight. Luckily, a collapsed lung wasn’t a life-threatening emergency for a psion. Unluckily, losing a chunk of liver was. They had me in a bed in a heartbeat.

By early evening, the worst of the damage had been regenerated. The medics who’d taken care of me had warned me not to exert myself for a week or so. The regenerated tissue wasn’t as integrated as the rest and could tear if stressed. I’d also had severe internal bleeding, and while the causes had been taken care of, I was still a little low on the red stuff and would be for a few days. Burke had given me a ride back to the dorm after seeing how pale I was when coming out of the infirmary.

I finally drew myself up in front of the room, knocked once, and then walked in. I caught a half dozen looks of surprise before a blur of red and pink cannoned into me. “Welcome back!” Star nearly screamed in my ear as we collapsed to the floor.

“Ouch,” I gasped as I felt something inside twitch. “Internal injuries. Careful.”

“Sorry!” She scrambled backwards and gave me her hands to help me up. I was weak enough from the impact that she had to pull me up. “What happened?”

“Give me a minute.” I staggered over to the table. The familiar faces were all there, Max and Jess, Drew and the empty seat next to him, Andreas, and even Grace. One face was missing. “Where’s Kaitlyn?”

People looked to Andreas, whose face fell as I asked the question. “She left earlier today, right after finals.”

Jess leaned forward on the table. “She’s been quiet ever since then. Not going out as much. She said she was going home for break, get away from things here for a while, but I didn’t know it’d be today. Think she needs some recovery time.”

“That’s too bad.” I sunk into an empty seat. “I’d like to talk to her. I think there’s a lot of things we need to talk about. She probably has some questions for me.”

“She does want to talk to you,” Andreas said. Jess nodded. “But it must wait until next trimester.”

“The last trimester,” Max said. He slid a mug over to me. I didn’t know if drinking was a great idea with a freshly healed liver and a touch of anemia,

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