Tower of the Four: Episode 2 - The Tower by Todd Fahnestock

Author:Todd Fahnestock [Fahnestock, Todd]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: F4 Publishing
Published: 2020-05-04T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

Brom

The next day, they attended their classes—the first on advanced Soulblock division, and the second on the external aspects of the magic paths. It was all knowledge they already knew, due to Oriana’s and Vale’s diligent off-hours research, but Brom listened anyway. There were a couple of things about advanced Soulblock division theory he hadn’t known. He watched Oriana’s face during the lesson, her finger on her chin as she recorded the information in the library of her mind.

That afternoon, when Brom came to the practice room, Vale was already there, which he had expected. He thought she might flaunt the new pact from the start, just once, just to show she didn’t need to listen to Oriana. But, true to her word, she was where she was supposed to be at this hour, in the practice room with the rest of them. They stayed and worked on their skills in silence until the prescribed time was finished, and they all went to the Floating Hall for the evening meal. They sat with over a hundred other academy students at the long marble tables and ate their goat stew in silence.

After, Brom went into his room with a mounting thrill of excitement, shut the door, and carefully locked it.

He turned to find Vale sitting on his bed.

“You’re a bit of a squirrel when it comes to climbing, aren’t you?” he said.

“How did you like my performance?”

“Convincing,” he said.

She smiled wide. “I didn’t think for a second you agreed with them, but they did.”

She was gleeful, but Brom felt a little sick. He didn’t want to lie to Oriana and Royal. There just wasn’t any other way around it. They would never convince Royal to question The Four. And it was almost as unlikely they’d convince Oriana.

But after what Brom had seen, there wasn’t any other choice. Something horrible was happening at the Champion’s Academy, and he couldn’t ignore it.

“So what’s our pact?” she asked.

“We don’t get caught. We get caught and we lose everything.”

Her smug expression faded, and she nodded solemnly. She knew what he meant. They wouldn’t just get reprimanded or punished by the masters; they would lose the Quad. In a way, that was worse than expulsion.

“We owe it to our Quad mates to unmask this danger,” Brom said. “We can’t just stand by and let...whatever is happening just happen. But they’ll never see it that way.”

Vale nodded.

“Over the next couple of days,” he continued, “we do nothing except study how to fool a Mentis. Oriana will know what we’re doing the moment she looks into our heads if we don’t find out how to stop her. And if we tell her never to look inside our heads, she’ll be immediately suspicious. So...you’re our researcher. Find out what we need to know, then we practice until we’re ready. Then, and only then, I’ll tell you my plan.”

“Okay,” she said, and then the excitement and mischief vanished from her face.

“What is it?” he asked

“Your emotions were all over me that night,” she said.

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