The Code Keeper: Fragments of Alchemy Book One by A.C. Sutliff

Author:A.C. Sutliff [Sutliff, A.C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-06-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Eight

The Codex

By the time Thea returned to her dorm, her arm was burning. She had time before her next lesson would start, but where should she go to get herself healed? She realized this was a perfect chance to call her parents with the Divination globe. But she couldn’t stand the thought of asking them for help right now.

She’d rather ask a complete stranger to heal her, she thought, but then she decided that wouldn’t be a good idea either. She had no idea who she could trust. Maleficus Keegan had allowed her to be injured and Charu had probably lied to her about the First Alchemist. Arkose might be the only Alchemist she knew that she could trust, but he surely had a lesson at the moment and wouldn’t have time to heal her.

Maybe she could demand that the Keeper heal her. She set her things down and hurried out her door and down the main hall, all the while breathing deeply to avoid panicking as she walked by all the strange Alchemists and Chemists filling the hall. She reminder herself that she had to believe the Keeper wouldn’t allow her to move out of her parents’ domicile if it was too dangerous for her to be on her own. And the Keeper probably had someone watching her anyway. She wondered if someone had been following her all morning.

She approached the Bookkeeper’s desk and marched up, interrupting a conversation Tenebrous was having with another Alchemist. “I want to see the Keeper!” she snapped.

The Bookkeeper held his hand up to her face and made a point of continuing to look at the Alchemist he had been talking to. After only a few moments, they finished their conversation, and Tenebrous finally looked at her.

“Well? Will you let me see him now?”

“He is holding a meeting with his Astral Dreamers as we speak. Not to be disturbed!” Tenebrous glared at her.

Thea sighed heavily while C.C. twitched in her pocket. She put her hand into her front vest pocket, and C.C. nuzzled her. “Tell him I want to talk to him, please.”

“Oh, so the young miss has found herself some manners!” Tenebrous scoffed. “I’ll tell him you have been pestering me since last night, and we shall see if he bats an eyelash. You best keep in mind that you are a mere Initium, and he is the Code Keeper!”

“I’m a Spectrum Scholar!” Thea snapped.

“Yes, and surprisingly, you aren’t even the rudest of the lot of you! Now be off with you! I’m sure you have a lesson to be attending!” He waved her away and scowled down at his giant book.

Thea tsked and spun on her heel to head back to her dorm. The whole way there, she fumed about her frustrating situation. An idea occurred to her, and when she reached the green hallway, she went straight to Chadwick’s door to ask if he could heal her, but after knocking for a moment, she figured the Chemist must have a lesson at the moment.

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