na

ess held

on the floorboards, fragments of other memories

e Whispering Woods during ou

rogant and desperate to harvest a rare

ght-creepers had closed in, and I ha

mett who

't scol

mocked my

ugh five miles of brambles and howling dark, his breath ra

ene shifted

air of the Advanced

d a fissure under an unstable

atening to splash flesh-eating

yzed, droppin

, casting a dual-layered barrier with his bare left

is forearm, the corrosive acid eating

ot made

checked my f

s of Gloomfang during

med wild lycans had caug

alm, using his rich Dragonkin blood to d

ter, his robes were shredded, his ribs broke

single

his blood, and my repayment had been a roll of sev

oul curling inward under the crush of gu

a Ste

through the void

es is boring you to tears, you are entirely welco

ids tor

not the cracked white pla

blue stone, inlaid with spinning brass rings that tra

lean scent of crushed sage, beeswax

ugh high Gothic lancet windows, illuminating floating mote

led with

stinctive charcoal robes

eath trapped in my

the hall stood Professor Eleanor Fo

ron-gray hair pulled into an unforgiving bun,

retired thr

southern coast to c

nding before a blackboard cov

r every student dreaded. "Are you with us, or have you decided that passing yo

down at

heet of fresh, unw

unblemished, glowing

rned my lef

ar was

no faint s

e of th

immed with brilliant crimson silk and

on Dawn phoenix gleamed pr

ribs with such violence I tho

reached over and s

Collette hissed

anic, her curly brown hair bouncin

s from Abyssal this morning, s

was ninet

ched by the long, bitter years of the border

sn't a

passive, washed out in

under my fing

quill smelled

ugh the castle's granite foundations rev

k and pinched the flesh of my

g pain bloomed b

asp escape

our focus on the parchment. We are covering the Tripping Impediment hex, a staple of the practical def

r the rest o

o my eyes, spilling over my la

urying my face in the wool of my sleeves

s shook unc

t Collette's hand rest gently on my back, con

had just spent five years su

as

ment hadn'

was still locked in its

e agreement

Kowalski