The Maelstrom of the Leaf Academy by M. L. Bullock

Author:M. L. Bullock [Bullock, M. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2019-05-04T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten—Midas

Joshua had picked the wrong day to start acting squirrelly. We’d barely gotten through the first fifteen minutes when he was ready to chase shadows outside the auditorium. Not that I hadn’t seen them too; in fact, one particular shadow looked very humanlike, but that didn’t mean there was anything out there. This was an old building that had been sitting abandoned for quite some time. The chances of us crossing the path of some derelict or homeless person were pretty good. It wasn’t like we hadn’t encountered people looking for a place to sleep or get warm in the past. But Joshua saw that shadow and was gone like a bullet out of a gun.

“Hold up, Joshua! Wait for me!” To his credit, he did pause momentarily, but it wasn’t enough time for me to be comfortably close to him. After Little Sister’s crow attack, it was hard to relax and just enjoy the investigation. My walkie-talkie was making clicking sounds. I reached for it and tried to call Cassidy but wasn’t successful. Joshua and I were standing outside the auditorium by a bit of broken wall looking down the side of the building. Although the sun had gone down, there was just enough light to cast awkward purple shadows against the wall. It added to the spooky effect, and I could swear I saw a small shadow bounce and then vanish around the side of the building. I could tell by the look in Joshua’s eyes and the expression on his face that he was more than willing to chase that shadow down.

I reached for his arm and tugged at it. “It’s never a good idea to go running after shadows, Joshua. I saw it too, but he’s not going anywhere. I kind of get the idea that he wants to draw us out. Let’s go back and check in with the rest of the team. So far, we’ve seen crows and a possible shadow person, but that’s the most activity I’ve seen here.”

Joshua’s sigh let me know that he wasn’t happy with that plan, but I was still the boss. Luckily for me, he followed me back inside and didn’t give me any lip. Cassidy and Sierra were barreling into the auditorium as if their shoes were on fire.

“Where did you go?” Sierra yelled at Josh breathlessly. “You were there one minute and gone the next. You didn’t hear us calling you?” The sound of panic in her voice surprised me.

“I saw a shadow. We went outside to follow it, but it disappeared around the corner.”

“Did you see it?” Cassidy asked me. “What did you see? What did it look like?”

“It looked like a shadow. It was kind of tall, almost as tall as me to begin with, but then it shrank. It was more child-sized. By the time we got to see it leave, it had shrunk down pretty significantly.”

Cassidy continued her questioning as any good investigator would. “Could it have been a bird flying over? We know there are crows here.

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