Mindscape by M.M. Vaughan

Author:M.M. Vaughan
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books

• CHAPTER SIXTEEN •

At nine o’clock the next morning, Chris was summoned to have a chat with Sir Bentley and Miss Sonata. Any hopes that he might be able to convince them of what he had seen vanished as soon as they started talking and made it clear that they were concerned not for the whereabouts of the boy but for Chris’s state of mind. Chris figured that continuing to insist that he had been right might make them question if he was mentally able to cope with the work at Myers Holt, and so he decided to keep quiet. Instead, he did his best to appear embarrassed about the misunderstanding, and finally, reassured, they let him on his way. Chris decided right then that the next time he saw the boy—and he was certain he would—he would investigate it himself.

Once he had come to that decision, Chris relaxed slightly. Although it played on his mind constantly, by Sunday he was, in the eyes of the others, back to his normal self. And, in a sense, he was. Chris had spent a long time thinking about the situation and decided there was nothing he could do until the next time they left the school. He knew that while they were deep underground in the facility nobody would be able to make their way in physically—Ron, John, and the tight security would make sure of that—or by using their Ability. As Sir Bentley had explained to them on their first day, the entire place was lined in lead, completely blocking anybody from using the Ability to look in to, or out of, Myers Holt.

So sure was he of this that by Monday morning the only thought on Chris’s mind was how he would survive another full day of lessons with the odious Ms. Lamb. The pupils all walked slowly into her classroom, dreading the inevitable shouting and name calling that they were about to be subjected to, but Ms. Lamb wasn’t there. They took their seats, surprised, and waited in silence.

And then, after ten minutes of waiting, something miraculous happened. Something that had not once happened in all the time that the pupils had been at Myers Holt. Ms. Lamb walked into the classroom . . . smiling.

“Good morning, children,” she said brightly, not mentioning, if she noticed, that all the pupils were staring at her with a look of total bewilderment.

“I hope you’ve all had a pleasant weekend.”

Nobody answered.

“Good, good,” she said, the heels on her knee-high leather boots clacking on the floor as she made her way over to her desk. She bent down, the skirt of her tight green suit stretching painfully as she searched through the drawer for something.

“Aha!” she said, pulling out a stack of white paper. “Here we go.”

Chris looked over at Philip. “What’s wrong with her?” he mouthed.

Philip raised both hands and shrugged his shoulders.

Chris watched, expecting Ms. Lamb to snap back to her old self at any moment as she handed each pupil some paper.

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