Mirrors and Magic by Laura Greenwood

Author:Laura Greenwood [Greenwood, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Drowlgon Press

Chapter Eleven

"I think I found something," Edward whispers to me, tearing my attention away from the teacher lecturing us about a war three hundred years ago.

Theoretically, I know it's important to learn about the past so we don't repeat mistakes made there, but surely they can find a more interesting way of doing it.

"What?" I ask. I'm about to add more to my question when the teacher looks over in our direction, almost as if he's heard us. But that would involve him paying attention to anything more than the droning of his own voice.

"A way to ward off any poisons."

My eyes widen. "I've never heard of anything like that." And I've looked into it in just about every library I've ever visited.

"It's in the unicorn book." He pulls it out of his bag and slides it towards me.

I open it to the page marked with his bookmark. Edward taps a paragraph without even looking properly, and I begin to read.

Bonding with a unicorn can have a lot of desirable side effects, including the bonded person getting sick less often as a result of exposure. Legends also suggest that ingesting a part of the bonded unicorn can be an antidote to most poisons, and can create an antitoxin to render most poisons useless even before they're ingested.

Horror and hope war within me, each wanting more attention. I want to be safe from the poison, but I also need Luna to stay safe. If she's harmed just to save me...

"This doesn't help," I whisper, pushing the book back towards him.

"Prince Edward, please inform us of the role Sir Richard the Brave had in the war," the teacher asks. I can tell from his expression that he doesn't care what Edward says, just that he does and proves he's not ignoring his talk.

Guilt fills me. I'm part of the reason he's been so distracted.

Edward clears his throat. "Sir Richard is often credited as being one of the first commanders on the field during the Battle of the Brook. They believe that's one of the reasons that they won the war, and without his influence, it would never have happened."

"Very good," the teacher claps his hand, oblivious to the inflections in Edward's voice that indicate he doesn't believe everything he's saying.

"What happened to Sir Richard after the war, Princess Snow?" he asks.

My eyes widen. I have no idea. I've never been interested in the intricacies of war, and my Mother instructed that none of my tutors should cover it in their curriculum. She thought it would cause problems in my character.

"I don't know, sir," I answer honestly.

"How can you not know?" The shock on his face is impossible to fake. He's truly horrified that I have no idea about this.

"War was my brother's area of study, not mine." I straighten my spine and harden my eyes as I respond, reminding him that I am a princess and he shouldn't forget that.

"And yet you're in my class."

I don't have an answer for that. He's right, I am sat in his class, which means I should know, and if I don't, then I should study more.

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