The Mad Scientist's Guide to Dating by Gannon Elizabeth

Author:Gannon, Elizabeth [Gannon, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Star Turtle Publishing
Published: 2015-02-08T05:00:00+00:00

Despite her early misgivings about the place, Jane was finding that the promise of a smooth career eased her concerns. Honestly, it wasn’t so bad once you got used to it.

Jane spent her days trying to memorize the layout of the sprawling castle, filled with rooms which seemed to move around on their own. For instance, some days the foyer led into the drawing room and some days it apparently lead to the great hall. Fairfax didn’t seem at all put out by this strange occurrence, but it made Jane’s hair stand on end.

This whole place had a terrifying and unnatural quality to it which set shivers down her spine.

All in all, if she had been searching for the right kind of villainous hideout in which to live, this was certainly the most evil and ghastly place she could have found. Jane was rather thrilled that the place was so terrible, as it drove home the point that she was a villain and would doubtlessly be learning many exciting and depraved things from her new mentor.

For her part, Fairfax seemed to be confused by Jane’s enthusiasm for the castle. To her, it seemed merely a house and less an institute of learning. Fairfax was turning out to be exactly what she appeared, however. An eternally calm and scary woman who made frequent mention of some horrible crime or another, and who had a habit of speaking in a low wheezing monotone. Despite that however, she seemed a relatively kind-natured woman, of competent education and average intelligence.

Fairfax willingly answered whatever question Jane had and showed Jane around the castle with no major complaints. Everywhere but ‘the Master’s’ lab, anyway. And the tower. Those areas were off-limits to Jane for some reason, and all inquiries about them were met with silence from the housekeeper.

At the moment though, the old woman had grown irritated by Jane’s constant questions and her odd enthusiasm for the work. As such, Fairfax had told her to walk the circumference of the island to get a better understanding of her new home.

Personally, Jane thought it was merely an excuse Fairfax concocted to get Jane out of her hair, but Jane was still going to take advantage of the opportunity. The island was so frightfully interesting. Every tree and bush seemed like some new attacker reaching out to destroy Jane and it was all so exciting. She had lived her life in the hospital white corridors of the Academy, which were unadorned and smelled of antiseptic and bleach.

Now she was on a strange and mysterious island, and there seemed to be any number of things which could kill her at any moment. Jane had trained her entire life for an opportunity like this! True, she had technically trained to stop people from turning these types of places into horrible death fortresses, but the point was the same.

Jane would probably die at any moment, wandering around this horrible and inhospitable place.

And she had never felt more alive.

She stepped over a particularly pointy outcropping of rock, marveling at how interesting its razor-sharp edges were.

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