Hybrid Academy: Year One by L.C. Mortimer

Author:L.C. Mortimer [Mortimer, L.C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: orphan academy teen, orphan urban fantasy, orphans and witches, orphan academy, hybrid teen academy, witch urban fantasy, teen urban fantasy, shifter academy, witch academy
Publisher: L.C. Mortimer
Published: 2019-07-31T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

By the time we were finished exploring the stream, the hill, and the forest, it was almost time for dinner. Since we had to eat at the school, none of us wanted to miss the meal. It was going to be a long time until breakfast the next day and I didn’t have any snacks in my room. Not yet, anyway. I was planning on making a trip to the school store at some point during the weekend, but I hadn’t gotten around to it yet. There had simply been other things occupying my time and keeping me busy. Snacks had been put on the back burner, which was unfortunate. Exploring had been a lot of fun and none of us really wanted to come back. It was just that after an entire day of fun, we were all hungry.

When we arrived back at the school, the tournament was just ending. Rows of students streamed out of the auditorium. Most everyone was in their human forms, but I was caught off-guard when I noticed a couple of lions roaming the halls with the students. They were very big and very beautiful, but I was intimidated. Is that what I would look like in my own shifter form? Would people feel a sense of intimidation when they looked at me?

“Don’t worry about them,” Kiera said. “They’re harmless.”

“Uh-huh,” I said, but I swallowed hard.

Harmless?

Lions?

Seemed impossible.

I wasn’t any sort of expert on shifters, but just looking at their sheer size made me think that they weren’t safe. Not really. Not at all. How much of a shifter was really under the person’s control? How much was ruled by instinct? My grandmother had talked about shifters in passing, but never seriously. I tried to think about the things she had told me about them, but every time I tried to grasp at a memory, it seemed to dissipate. Would a shifter go crazy if they came across some prey, for example? Would they be overcome with hunger if a rabbit ran across their path?

More importantly, what would it take for one of those lions to actually come after me?

“Seriously,” Kiera said, sensing my agitation. “It’s going to be fine. They aren’t interested in you, anyway.” She pointed to a group of fairies who were walking with their wings out. The fairies were bright and glittery. They seemed to practically glow. She was right, too. The lions were completely enamored with the fairies. They didn’t seem to be concerned with me at all.

It was a relief.

Perhaps it shouldn’t have been.

Grams always taught me that the danger you see is better than the danger you don’t. Having a lion view me as pretty would be better than having something else see me as prey, something I didn’t see at all. Tony, for example. He’d caught me off guard.

We went into the cafeteria and lined up to get our dinner. As we waited in line, we listened to everyone chatting about the competition. Apparently, Jeremiah had completely slaughtered Raymond.

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