Tower of the Four: Episode 1 - The Quad by Todd Fahnestock

Author:Todd Fahnestock [Fahnestock, Todd]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: F4 Publishing
Published: 2020-04-06T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

Brom

Brom snuck across the campus, keeping close to the river and out of sight. The sloped banks were over six feet tall in most places, and it was thick with willows and oak trees, the perfect place to travel from one side of the school to the other without being seen. Caila had showed him this trick.

They’d been lovers for several heady weeks, but Caila had soon moved on. She was more interested in finding new students to corrupt than staying with one person. Brom had moped about her for two days before he realized he was being silly. Caila had never promised him fidelity. She’d promised him rule-breaking and adventure. And she had delivered, introducing him to an entire campus of beautiful mischief.

Caila had opened doors to a way of thinking Brom couldn’t have imagined before. She scoffed at duty, laughed at guilt. She loved what was in front of her and she didn’t seem to care what anyone else thought about it. She was like a rock skipping across water, somehow defying what seemed to drag so many others down. He’d always love her just a little for that, for her wild nature, and for stopping long enough to take him under her wing.

There was a banquet of pleasures all around, in every moment, and these had blessedly taken Brom’s attention away from his Quad’s dismal failures. He only spent time with his angry Quad when he had to, and only for long enough to allay suspicion if the masters happened to look his way.

So, since Caila had flitted on from her relationship with Brom, he’d decided to wreak a bit of corruption himself, and he found he was rather good at it. He’d been breaking the rules of “fraternization” for almost a month. Gods! It fed his soul. It was the only thing he looked forward to. His passion for his morning classes remained, and he tried to match up what he learned with his personal magical practice.

But his afternoon sessions in the official practice room, well... He dutifully spent the required hours with his miserable Quad, but he barely cared about them anymore. Brom lived for the nights when he could break free and use his meager Anima skills to find other interesting souls and play with them.

He jumped a log and continued jogging quietly along the rushing river. He was close enough to the water that the ground was spongey with moss and river grass, but not so close that he made squishy sounds.

“Let your feet be silent,” Caila had told him when she pointed out her secret silent thoroughfare across the campus.

An odd, muffled sound up ahead caused Brom to stop in his tracks. He shrank against the trunk of a tree, blending with its silhouette.

Who would be out here? Anyone spending time by the river at this time of night was breaking curfew, and Brom wondered if he was about to stumble across Caila with one of her new lovers.

The notion dissolved as he recognized the sound.

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