Shadow Slayer: A Dark Academy Romance (Moongrove Academy: Wicked Spells Book 2) by Ella Hendricks

Author:Ella Hendricks [Hendricks, Ella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Flutterbye Trail Press
Published: 2023-05-15T16:00:00+00:00

Luckily, NSU faculty housing was on the side of campus that wasn’t really the campus, so we didn’t have to climb any of the high walls that’d been erected to separate NSU from the rest of New Salem during the lockdown. They’d been lifted to make checkpoints to screen those coming and going. There was a checkpoint for the faculty and staff, but it was in the opposite direction of where we were heading.

As soon as the sun set, Phaeron shrouded us with his darkness magic, and the four of us walked to a cemetery a few miles away. Discreetly dressed campus police patrolled the outside edges, looking to either stop any trouble or enforce the curfew for any who attempted to follow certain Samhain rituals after dark.

Under the cover of magic, we slipped past a couple of policemen and continued walking. The cemetery was massive, as many supernaturals wanted to be laid to rest with their kin. This also meant the police presence couldn’t cover every square inch of the space.

Phaeron led us to a section with headstones worn by time but freshly scrubbed clean for Samhain. “This is the place,” he breathed. “Cress, Geo, go keep watch. Ben, you’re first.”

Geo and Cress conferred for a moment before going to stand far enough away to give us some privacy. She moved under the shadow of a spindly tree, while his gargoyle form’s obsidian stone disappeared into the night except for the hulking outline of his bulky wings.

I turned to the dimensional, swallowing my nerves. “I just need to know her name,” he said.

“Marie Evenstar. How long will I have with her?” I asked.

“Half an hour, maybe. It entirely depends on factors beyond our control.” He gestured for me to stand back.

I watched from a safe distance as he wove a ball of shadows between his hands and stretched it out into a paper-thin rectangle. He spoke in a foreign tongue, rolling smooth words into a chant. When I started to tune out and let his voice become background noise, he abruptly said my mother’s name and reached toward the shadowy shape.

The rectangle glittered like starlight, and he resumed his spell casting. He said her name three more times until there was no hint of shadow in front of him. As gently radiant as the moon, the original rectangle had become a gateway of sorts, and through it stepped a transparent woman with her silhouette outlined in gentle white.

“Is this her?” I asked quietly. The magic faltered for a moment as Phaeron grunted an affirmative. He had his head bowed, lips still moving.

The ghostly woman scrubbed her eyes and looked around in confusion. She was shorter than me, pleasantly rounded around the edges with some extra weight under a modest sweater and dark pants. Her blonde hair was piled up atop her head in a messy bun. I wondered if this was what she’d looked like when she’d passed away.

I could just ask, but my tongue felt paralyzed in my mouth.

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