Shifter Falls Academy: Year Two by L.C. Mortimer

Author:L.C. Mortimer [Mortimer, L.C.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2020-05-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

I lay in bed for what felt like an eternity. Things weren’t quite clicking into place, but they were a little bit. I knew that I had been put into foster care because no one could find my parents.

No one.

They had searched, and they had looked, but that was it. So even though I didn’t know who my parents were, I knew that no one had come forward to look for me and claim me.

Had my mother died in a car accident?

Was headmaster Wild…my dad?

It seemed impossible to me, but then again, I’d been so starved for any sort of information that in a weird, twisted way, I wanted to believe that he could be. We didn’t have the same hair color or the same eyes, but the timeline was right. He was a cat shifter, too.

Like me.

I’d gone into foster care 15 ½ years ago.

Was it possible that I was his missing child?

How would I even find out?

I couldn’t exactly walk up to him and be like, “Hey, Professor Wild, so…your family’s dead, right? What if they aren’t all totally dead?”

Not only would that be super not-classy, but I’m pretty sure it would get me kicked out of school, too. I think if someone said something like that to me, it would piss me off. A lot. And I’m not exactly easy to irritate.

Jade was asleep when I got back to the room and she stayed asleep even through my thinking and curiosity. She started snoring and I really couldn’t handle that on top of my questions, so I finally got up, grabbed a couple of textbooks, and headed downstairs.

The lobby of the dormitory was decidedly empty. No one was hanging out, studying, or chatting. Nobody was loitering, wondering about tests they had to take or preparing for exams. It was nearly midnight, and even though we weren’t supposed to leave the dorms this late, the lobby was supposed to be open 24/7.

I chose a comfortable couch in one of the corners and settled in. If I had to be awake, if I couldn’t sleep, then I was going to make the most of it. I’d start by reviewing my Shifting on Command homework.

One of the things Mr. Harper wanted us to be able to do was to shift within ten seconds of deciding we needed to. That was a total, complete shift. He wanted us to be able to do this without thinking, and he wanted us to be able to control it.

What he meant was that he didn’t want us to shift and then be stuck that way. In his mind, we should all be able to shift easily back and forth from both animal to human and back again. He didn’t think there should be any sort of hesitation when we changed, and I understood the reasoning behind it.

Still, it was easier said than done.

I looked over some of the papers he’d given us. He’d passed out several scrolls that contained tips for shifting in either direction.

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