The Alchemists Academy: Stones to Ashes Book 1 by Kailin Gow

Author:Kailin Gow [Gow, Kailin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Europe, Legends; Myths; Fables, Magic, Action & Adventure, Fantasy Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Teenagers, General, Schools, People & Places, Arthurian
ISBN: 9781597489720
Publisher: The EDGE
Published: 2011-01-26T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

It took some effort to locate the others, because it turned out that the school had more than one library where they had arranged to meet. As a result, before he found his friends, Wirt found himself passing through a large open space filled with shelves littered with ladders propped against them, through a room with a multicolored stone floor where scrolls peeked out of pigeonholes nestled in the walls, and even through a library that looked like a garden nursery filled with small trees growing in tubs.

He finally found Spencer and Alana in a circular reading room overstuffed with oversized armchairs, where a sticky blob of greenish goo sat in the middle of a stone pit, spectacles perched incongruously on a vaguely nose-like protrusion.

“Where are the books?” Wirt asked, and Alana held up a thin folder.

“If you ask the librarian, it will fetch what you want. Actually…” she turned her attention to the green blob, “could you give me the next stack of essays, please?”

The green blob quivered for a moment, then turned until the spectacles faced a patch of space somewhere beside Wirt’s head. Wirt flinched instinctively as a rope-like green tentacle lashed out from it, disappearing through a shimmering patch of air just inches from his right ear. For a brief instant, Wirt thought that maybe he was under attack, but the others seemed unconcerned by it. A second later, and the tentacle pulled back like an angler pulling in their line, another folder stuck to the end of it. The green thing passed it to Alana.

“Thank you.”

“What is that thing?” Wirt asked. Alana shrugged.

“It’s a Thing. Come on Wirt, you can help.” She indicated another of the armchairs.

“I thought you were going to ask Priscilla’s mirror for help?” Wirt said.

Alana shrugged. “It was being irritating, and told me that looking it up myself would be good for me. Still, it suggested that maybe I should look at the old essays of those teachers who were students here once. Apparently, they never throw anything away here.”

“So here we are,” Spencer walked up, “reading through things like “seven variations on toad spells”. Ms. Genovia only got a B for that, incidentally.”

“She has obviously practiced since,” Wirt said. Alana nodded her agreement.

“How did your ‘Transportation class’ go?” she asked. “Please tell me you weren’t caught breaking into the records.”

Wirt saw Spencer’s eyes widen.

“You really-”

“Yes,” Wirt said. He was not surprised that Alana had guessed. “I didn’t find anything very useful. Not unless you count the fact that someone has sent Mr. Roth flowers or that he seems to have a middle name beginning with A.”

“What?” Alana asked, so Wirt started to explain about the note, but Spencer interrupted.

“Eureka!”

Wirt hadn’t known that it was possible for a Thing with no real face to give disapproving glares, but this one managed it. Spencer muttered a hasty apology before holding up an essay. The title was slightly more catchy than Ms. Genovia’s frog one, and slightly more relevant too. “Ervana: Enemy or Friend?” was written across the top, along with the name of the student who had written it: Ms.

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