(eng) Mercedes Lackey & Rosemary Edghill - Shadow Grail 02 by Conspiracies

Author:Conspiracies [Conspiracies]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

NINE

Spirit woke feeling bleary and exhausted; she’d been reading in one of the scrapbooks long after she should have been asleep. Technically she had been in bed, and it seemed that if you weren’t on the computer or had every light in your room blazing, no one figured out you were still awake. It was pretty easy to get away with reading in bed after “lights out.” She thought she might have hit something interesting, but by the time she’d gotten an inkling of it, she’d been nodding off and had to put the book away.

She was tempted to skip reading the usual school e-mail announcements once she was cleaned up and dressed. They rarely had anything interesting in them, just the usual club meetings and sports practices.

But if I don’t there’ll probably be something vitally important, she decided with resignation. Or at least something that will make me look stupid for not knowing it. She went to the desk and bumped her mouse to wake up her computer. Brushing her hair with one hand, she opened up her e-mail program with the other.

Field Trip to Billings was the subject of the first unread e-mail.

She blinked. A field trip? When did the school start having field trips?

Now, apparently.

She opened it.

A field trip to Billings will take place two weeks from today, she read. This will be to visit the Yellowstone Art Museum, and a short shopping visit for select students, a chance to socialize outside the school. Three teachers will accompany the students: Mr. Martin Bowman, Magic and Mathematics; Ms. Lindsay Holland, Art and Magic; and Mr. David Krandal, English Literature and Lore. The names of the students to go on the trip will be announced in a few days.

If there ever was an announcement of something that was obviously a reward for the perfect Oakhurst student, this was surely it. Pigs will sing opera before my name is on that list, she thought, deleting all the messages. She was a little angry and a little depressed at the same time—and the stupid thing was, she didn’t even know why she’d want to go on the trip. She didn’t have any money to shop with, and she didn’t like art museums. Her parents had tried to get her interested in art all her life, and it hadn’t worked; that had been her kid sister’s thing. Spirit liked science and history museums.

Maybe it was just the idea of getting away from this place even for a day. Maybe it was the whole Tom Sawyer trick of knowing she wasn’t going to get something that made her want to have it. Just another divide-and-conquer Oakhurst trick. Probably they’d make a point of dividing up kids who were friends, so one got to go and the other didn’t.

Good old Oakhurst.

She deleted the e-mail. No point in having it sit there, mocking her.

Besides, this evening they were all going to get together to see what they’d found in the scrapbooks. That should keep her mind off stupid field trips.

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