The Blackened Blade by Isla Davon

Author:Isla Davon [Davon, Isla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-12-07T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 23

I make my way toward the old abandoned building about half a mile back behind the academy and training grounds.

I found this place during one of my runs. Apparently it was the first training area when the academy was established, but after a bad fire and the deaths of a couple of students, the place was abandoned. In only a few decades, the building now resembled something you would see from a haunted movie.

I make my way through the new area of forest, feeling fresher from the nap I had earlier, and ready for a good training session tonight.

I needed to work off some of the agitation from today and what better way than feeling the cold metal of two beautiful elven daggers beneath my fingers.

I was going to miss my little clearing, but after the attack during the Halloween dance, there were more people making their way into the forest and getting nearer to it.

At first, I thought it was just some students looking for a thrill but they didn’t stick to just one area, almost as if they were searching for something.

My instinct told me after the second day, that I’d better move if I didn’t want to be caught training. I came all the way to the forest behind the defence training grounds, and to the opposite side of the academy. It takes a while longer sticking to the shadows and sneaking behind the academy and current training grounds to get here, but so far I’ve seen and heard no-one. It was worth the time if I could train in peace again.

I push past the overgrown bushes and make my way down the broken pathway.

The closer I get, the more features of the old building I could see; overgrown ivy climbed its derelict walls with grey brick peeking out from beneath it, scorch marks ran the length of one side of the building, and small curved windows with tree leaves crawling from its now empty panes.

I make my way through its front entrance, an open space where only rusted hinges covered in ivy and moss are any indication that a door once stood here before.

The space inside is completely open, most of the old walls decayed with time or destroyed by the fire. The moon sits above me, a large crumbling hole now where part of the roof once stood. Trees sprout from every corner, with moss and green bushes covering most of the floor, only small parts of grey brick or old black tiles still visible, where nature hadn’t fully taken them. Ivy and moss also climb up the remaining walls, with small flecks of brick peeking through here and there.

On the left side of the building–that's still partially intact–there stands a strange broken cabinet that lines half of its wall. It has hooks and clasps of varying sizes that seem to have once held the weapons here. And below it sits an old broken board with strange black marks hanging from the wall. The

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