King's Preparatory and the Book of Being by S.A. Alba

Author:S.A. Alba [Alba, S.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Independent
Published: 2021-09-06T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

A warm wind continued to blow through the mountainside, even as September was ending. Rosie sat on a boulder, reading another book on the list Doctor Witam had given her, but, as she approached the end of the ninth and final book with still no answers she didn’t already possess herself, she slammed the cover shut and tossed it aside. Staring into the sunset at the sea of marigold, persimmon, plum, and indigo painting the sky, Rosie couldn’t help wonder what knowledge she had to gain from these books. Was there some underlying message that Doctor Witam wanted her to find, or was this actually the information that helped him understand?

Rosie reached into her pocket and read the crumpled-up list. Chasing Life: Ways Humans Have Survived; The Human Brain: An Intellect Mind; A Rising Power: How Witches Came to Be; Indestructible or Not?: Vampire Living; Sitting in the Sun: Harnessing the Fairy Light; The Turning: When Wolves Come Out to Kill; The Infinite Changes: A Shape Shifters Ability; Open Water: The Resurfacing of Mermaids; and Never Leave a Man Behind: A Protector’s Guide. What did all these books have in common that could give her the information she hoped to gain? She processed all the information she had absorbed and evaluated it.

“All the books have to do with supernatural beginnings and survival,” she thought aloud. “And they refer to each supernatural creature in one way or another.” Rosie grabbed the tossed-aside book and collected the others. “What else could these books give me? What else?” They have similar title structures and don’t list an author. They were also all hard to find in the school’s library, buried by other books and spread far and wide. One copy per book existed. She skimmed the pages of each. All were old and tattered and had stains from mildew and water. But Rosie spotted something. At first, it seemed like a normal wear and tear smudge, which was why Rosie hadn’t noticed it before. In the bottom corner of the back cover in each book laid a discolored spot. What was this, she wondered? After gathering her things and jumping off the boulder, Rosie strode to campus.

In her secret study room in the Valtic library, she opened each book and laid them atop each other, so the smudges were lying in a column. They seemed similar, yet different. It was too hard to completely decipher them. Rosie sat upright. “Yes!” she yelled, remembering something she had learned in her cryptology class. “The smudge is only faded, not destroyed. I can see what it is if I …” She took the book, and, as she blew slow, hot breaths on the smudge, one section of the secret marking darkened. She breathed harder and harder, but when she stopped to catch her breath, the smudge resumed its original state. Trying something a bit more dangerous, she held it above one of the candles, hoping not to set the room on fire. Inching the book closer to the flame, she held her breath and concentrated.

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