(eng) Niall Teasdale - Misfits 01 by Misfit Magic

Author:Misfit Magic [Magic, Misfit]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Part Two: Mean Girls

Concord City, Concordance, 23rd Day of Autumngate, 999.

Krystal had noticed a few odd looks aimed in her direction during the morning lectures, but it was not until lunchtime that she found out what was going on. Trudy, Charlotte, and Xanthe hurried in to meet Krystal and Jesse, and they had some weird, but bad, news.

‘There’s a rumour going around that you’re a necromancer,’ Charlotte said as soon as she was sitting down.

‘Me?’ Krystal queried.

‘You,’ Trudy said. ‘As far as we can tell, it started last week, but none of us were in classes. I still think we can guess who started it.’ Her gaze lifted to the gang of indigos across the refectory.

‘Huh, maybe. Is there any evidence behind this rumour, or are they just shouting loudly and hoping people believe it?’

‘Apparently, you answered a necromancy question in a lecture.’

‘Well, th-that’s true,’ Jesse said. ‘You did, sort of.’

‘The answer came from a book on general magical theory,’ Krystal replied. ‘And Theodore Marin pointed that out in the lecture.’

‘And you were there when we found… the zombie,’ Charlotte said. ‘They’re saying she got turned as part of some necromantic ritual.’

‘Which makes us your accomplices,’ Trudy added.

‘That has to be the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard,’ Krystal said. ‘If it had been me, us, doing it, we’d be hung and burned by now. The guardians had forensic magi crawling all over that building. They would have found indications that Glinda was killed there, changed there, and they would have at least questioned us about it. Whoever did that to her, they did it somewhere else and then took her to that house.’

‘Which happens to be the house the necromancer lived in,’ Xanthe said. ‘At least, according to the rumours it was.’

Krystal bit her lip. ‘Nothing much we can do about it for now. We’ve no proof it came from Felicia and her cronies. So long as the staff don’t believe it, all we lose is some social connections we didn’t have anyway.’

Trudy nodded. ‘It’ll probably blow over soon enough when they find someone new to be mean to.’

24th Day of Autumngate.

‘I don’t know how they can sit there, eating among decent people.’

Krystal looked up from her evening meal and turned to look for the owner of the voice. She found the group of indigos sitting behind her, but the voice had not been Felicia’s, because Felicia spoke next.

‘I’m not sure why they’re allowed to. I’m sure the authorities will be looking into the matter soon enough. My father wouldn’t hear of me being in a hall with someone dealing in dark magic.’

There was a smug quality to Felicia’s tone which just rubbed Krystal up the wrong way. Pushing her chair back, she made to rise and Trudy reached out to stop her. ‘Just ignore them,’ Trudy hissed.

Krystal considered that for a second, then she pushed her glasses up her nose. ‘No,’ she said, and stepped across to stand right behind Felicia. ‘Felicia Goldring, I was wondering whether you could point out the decent people here for me? Decent people don’t spread unfounded rumours.

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