The Rift by S.D. Wasley

Author:S.D. Wasley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, urban fantasy, suspense, paranormal, young adult, teen, series, new adult
Publisher: Evernight Teen

Chapter Fifteen

Mona kept badgering Ms. Deering to get Mr. Boxe to come in and speak to us. She had loads of questions about the Astarions, as well as the sections of the Lydenburg Papers she’d recently translated. Eventually Ms. Deering conceded. She arranged for him to visit during one of our before-school meetings. Mr. Boxe arrived about ten minutes after our session started, bustling into the room, and slopping coffee out of his mug onto the classroom carpet.

“Ms. Deering tells me you have some questions,” he said.

We all looked at Mona expectantly, since she was the one with the questions. We were just along for the ride.

“This prophesied flood,” she began, referring to her notebook. “Are you sure it’s not going to happen?”

Mr. Boxe looked as astonished as I felt. “Mona,” I couldn’t help saying, “my ghost Hannah told me there was no flood, or city, or anything.”

“I know,” she said, “but the Lydenburg Papers talk about these four prophecies and, well, they’re pretty convincing. Okay, one of them seems a bit hokey to me—just some random Astarion lady who made a prediction based on the formations of birds flying in the sky—but the other prophecies are reasonably strong. One of them is an astrological prediction that interprets planetary movements. I’ve cross-checked against other astrologers’ readings, and the planetary alignments—whether or not you believe in them—say exactly what that prophecy says they do. Like, there will be environmental disruption and a time of distress, disturbance and panic.” Mona looked around at us all defiantly, as though daring us to argue. We stayed silent, so she went on.

“Then there’s another prophecy that’s a numerology type thing, like dates and lines of latitude and stuff. That all checks out, too. I recalculated the math.” She caught Ed’s look of disbelief and gave him a brief glare. “I didn’t say I believe in numerology. But the fact is, the work that’s gone into that prediction—it’s correct.” She looked back at her notes. “And the fourth one was some guy who did cleromancy. It’s a way of telling the future where you roll dice. He was with a group of Astarions and they would use the dice to answer questions about the future. When he asked about the flood … they got sixes. All sixes. A hundred and ninety-three sixes in a row––basically, they got sixes until they stopped throwing the dice, no matter who threw it, and even switching the dice around. I mean, I don’t know if it’s true or not, but if it is, it’s pretty damn weird.”

That was spooky. I’d never doubted Hannah’s assurance that the flood was a ‘madman’s dream’ before, but now I found myself wondering. Mr. Boxe contemplated Mona meditatively as he took a sip of his coffee.

“I’m aware of those prophecies you’ve mentioned. They’re well known in the Astarion faith. It was the very intersection of these prophecies, all pointing to this flood event, which formed the basis for the beliefs of the breakaway group of Astarions—the group we know as rogue Astarions.

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