Studies in Demonolgy: the complete series by Nichols TJ

Author:Nichols, TJ
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-08-26T00:00:00+00:00

The atmosphere in the house was grim. Lizzie hadn’t said a word. She seemed to have turned to stone. If she’d cried or been angry, that would’ve been something, but she pushed Norah and Angus aside and shut herself in her room. Norah sat on the sofa and stared at the blank screen of the TV. Neither of them wanted to turn it on.

Their faces would be there. The trainees would be labeled rogues like him, even though they weren’t really. Their greatest crime was using magic without the college’s approval, but the college only approved of demon-based magic, not natural magic, the kind wizards used. Wizards didn’t need a demon, and Angus was sure that, with training, they could be as strong as warlocks and a threat to the college.

The college wasn’t about magical studies at all. If it were, they’d encourage the use of natural magic, even for warlocks. It was about control of magic and power. Those that disobeyed got trampled. The only thing stopping that foot from crushing them was the underground.

It was clear the underground had become just a rival college. Their original purpose of training wizards had been erased. Maybe it would all work out if the underground took over, but maybe the underground would see those trained wizards as a threat and be no different from the college. There was nothing weak about a wizard.

The pressure of the dampeners wrapped tightly around him, like a too-warm coat that he couldn’t pull off. He wanted to ask Norah if she felt it, but she wouldn’t make eye contact. So they sat in silence as the room got darker. The heater hummed in the background.

“Is he dead?” Norah’s voice was rough.

“I tried to heal him, but… he wanted to go.” Did Jim’s soul balance the betrayals? Had Jim enjoyed his father’s money while he was alive or was it always tainted?

If Angus had never contacted Jim, never asked about the underground, he’d probably have died in Demonside. No one would have opened the void for him to get home.

“They expected us to die today,” she whispered. They all knew about the microphones.

Angus nodded. “It was a setup. We can never walk free.”

They were reliant on the underground for every breath they took, and Angus didn’t like it at all. He should get up and bandage his arm properly since he couldn’t go outside and attempt self-healing—Saka had warned him that it would be harder to heal himself than to heal others, and here he couldn’t see the magic.

Angus tipped his head back against the sofa and closed his eyes. He needed to find a way out of Vinland.

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