Magic Academy (A Fantasy New Adult Romance) by Keep Jillian

Author:Keep, Jillian [Keep, Jillian]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Pathforgers Publishing
Published: 2013-12-10T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 28

Classes went much the same as usual, which is to say a lot of complicated jargon that Firia was only beginning to grasp. Though something she couldn’t help but notice was the absence of Mae’lin from the day’s lessons. Neither he nor Bran were present that day, and the only response she could get out of Ala’nase as to their whereabouts was a shrug, a smirk and a teasing: “Off fighting over you, no doubt.”

“You’re not helping,” she muttered back ruefully.

She didn’t know which she sought distraction from more. The two men, or the demon that awaited her back in her room. Either way, it was becoming too much, too quickly, and it fogged her mind from what she should have been focusing on. School.

Her one chance for success, to leave the life of drudgery behind.

So why was it so damn hard to focus?

As the two young women made their way down the hall out of the building the gentle melodies of some hypnotic music carried to them, and before she even realized it, Firia had detoured off her usual course a ways and found herself outside a crowded classroom from whence it came.

“What’s going on?” asked Ala’nase, looking as entranced as Firia felt. The pair were compelled to prod at the students clustering about the doorway to take a peek inside.

It was there she saw a familiarly unfamiliar sight. For sat upon the stool at the front of a classroom was the devilishly handsome and fiendishly tricky Gway’lin. He looked serene as he played upon his flute, all the students seeming summoned to him as he swayed and bobbed his head with the haunting melody.

Firia had, of course, listened to many a musician over the years. Music making and song playing were great pastimes of the humans back home, but nothing they had ever done approached the curiously unworldly tunes that came from the elf’s playing.

It was almost as if the music itself warped reality about him, his long, billowy black sleeves seeming to lift up and dance with the sounds. His hair rising up like numerous pythons out of some story book, entranced. Yet the moment she tried to focus in on any one of these things she saw it was not so. A trick of the eye? No, it had to be magic that empowered his playing. That made the whole world seem to spin to his whim, that made the lights dim for all the world but its very core: Gway’lin the musician magician.

Firia had been struck breathless, though it didn’t dawn on her until he finished playing and reality seemed to return to normal. Applause was quick to break out.

She joined in, though her blue eyes went to Ala’nase. Since when was she concerned with what others thought of her, or what she enjoyed?

It was so foreign to her, all the changes she’d been struggling against since coming to the Academy. She had friends. People she actually cared for, outside of her father.

She was letting herself open up.

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