Blood Moon (Wildeward Academy Book 3) by Gwyneira Blythe

Author:Gwyneira Blythe [Blythe, Gwyneira]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-12-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

Within the Laboratory

Victoria

The infirmary was slow. The nurses congregated in their break room with only a few patients on the floor. Jekyll, as our only night-sighted in the group, grumbled at being scout, but we had to keep our mage-lights low and dim. I stayed stuffed in my cloak. The strange glow emanating from my skin from so much magic belled out at the bottom with every step. If Doyle had been here, we could have wrapped ourselves in illusion and waltzed through. We had to make do with what we had.

A rising note, a howl, broke over the silence. The hair on the back of my neck prickled. Just as quickly it snapped off.

“Hyde,” I breathed his name, but the others heard. Jekyll looked pained as we crouched between curtained beds. The nurses’ station had gone quiet, only to erupt in nervous warbles before they started to break up. We needed to get to those stairs.

Jekyll jerked his head and we followed. Quicker now. Past the laundry and its ordinary steps, there was even a flicker of a light to try and cheer up the place. In contrast, the stairwell to Stein’s laboratory yawned dire and forbidden under the doctor’s quarters on the second floor. The overlooking windows were dark and it wasn’t because the doctor was sleeping. The shadows swallowed Jekyll first, but his quiet steps were echoed just as the rest of us joined and we all froze to hear our footsteps shuffle and reverberate. Not good.

: A charm to damper sound? : I asked Jekyll mentally because I dared not speak aloud. He ran his fingers through his options. The whisper of his movements breathed in the maw.

“Oi! Who’s there? That place is off limits.” A nurse was bustling toward us. A roar was in my ears. I didn’t want to have to incapacitate the nurses; there was no time for that!

Evetta patted my arm. “Go,” she whispered at my cheek before stepping forward to meet the nurse. She looked back once with shining citrine-green snake eyes to wink at me. She could handle them and then catch up.

Jekyll’s hand at my elbow snapped me into action from the brief petrifying glance Evetta had thrown my way. We took the distraction and slipped down. Turning the corner, our steps were still too loud, I reached for the prickle of feathers and my owl enveloped me. Silent wings fluttered as I righted myself and basically fell down the rest of the stairs before my wings cooperated. Another room opened up under the infirmary, but it was dusty with disuse. The doctor’s footprints were easily seen tracking back and forth on one singular path. I swooped to wait for Jekyll and Achoris.

: Lead the way; your glow is easy enough to follow. : Jekyll’s voice was deep and growly in my head.

If I could roll my eyes, I would have. White and glowing, what nonsense, but it did have its uses. The doctor’s track led us directly to another stair.

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