2025-05-21 16:55:17I waited for lights out, each moment felt like an eternity. Just like the night before, when I was certain that everyone in the dorm was asleep, I snuck out. I jogged to the orchard, which was a few meters to the left of the teacher's quarters, and placed myself behind a group of trees.
As expected, Amero was smoking his last cigarette of the day on the porch of his room. His room, fortunately, was on the ground floor of the Gothic-style building. He tossed the butt, entered his room, and soon after switched off the light. I waited another twenty minutes just in case he wasn't a quick sleeper.
I crouch-walked to the foot of the building. The sliding glass door was open. I silently crossed the threshold.
I was attacked by the damp, yet the warm smell of whatever it was Amero smoked. Definitely wasn’t Dragons tail.
His body steadily rose and fell beneath the blanket...
I scanned the messy room. Something shiny entered my peripheral vision. The
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CHAPTER TWENTY
I rushed to the bathroom before I made my way to the Renchiology lecture. The whole time, I cursed myself for asking such a stupid question.I never ask questions, ever, and when I do, I decide to correct a grammatical error?But that look...Mr. Kajulu was not in a particularly good mood that day.“Daniel!”“Huh? I mean yes sir!”“What are the different groups of Renchiology and their classes?”“What. Are. The. different classes, uhm...”“I didn't know I was lecturing a parrot; I want a 1000-word essay on the Climatic influence of the Otherside on the evolution of Renchi, due tomorrow.”Dan hung his head.Dwayne laughed."David! same question. "“Renchi are classed into three main groups. Fliers, walkers, and swimmers. Fliers are Renchi that can fly, walkers use their legs to traverse the ground, and swimmers inhabit water bodies. These three main groups are further classified into
CHAPTER NINETEEN
David...The voice fished me out of a deep sleep.But what I saw next convinced me that I may have been having a nightmare.Surrounding my bed, like macabre balloons, were floating eyes of varying sizes. None of them small enough to be considered human.Come...The largest eye began to float away as if pushed by a weak wind. The smaller eyes trailed after it.Involuntarily, I climbed out of bed and followed.I followed the eyes even though I screamed at my body to go back and pull the blankets over my head. I blinked aggressively, a trick that usually pulled me from nightmares.But this time, every time I opened my eyes; I was still descending the steps to the ground floor.Soon, I exited the Headquarters.In the thick starry night, I tried to reach for one of the eyes…but it withdrew itself from reach.They led me to the tree outside the Director's office.Look closer...
CHAPTER THIRTY
I waited for lights out, each moment felt like an eternity. Just like the night before, when I was certain that everyone in the dorm was asleep, I snuck out. I jogged to the orchard, which was a few meters to the left of the teacher's quarters, and placed myself behind a group of trees.As expected, Amero was smoking his last cigarette of the day on the porch of his room. His room, fortunately, was on the ground floor of the Gothic-style building. He tossed the butt, entered his room, and soon after switched off the light. I waited another twenty minutes just in case he wasn't a quick sleeper.I crouch-walked to the foot of the building. The sliding glass door was open. I silently crossed the threshold.I was attacked by the damp, yet the warm smell of whatever it was Amero smoked. Definitely wasn’t Dragons tail.His body steadily rose and fell beneath the blanket...I scanned the messy room. Something shiny entered my peripheral vision. The
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
“Good morning class, sorry I'm late!”It never failed to amaze me how Ms. Hernandez was always late for the lecture. This was because she always walked like she had ants in her pants.“Alright then!” exclaimed Ms. Hernandez.She clapped her hands together.“I understand that we were about to move on to Barbarey Wexley and her contribution to the establishment of the Association's Headquarters", she said, “Am I right?”No one said anything.Someone coughed.“I'll take your silence as confirmation. Okay! Today I'm not in the picking mood, so I'll lead this one.”She ruffled through her books and papers. She picked up a thin text with aged covers barely held together by a cracked bind.She read from the book,“Now, the most interesting thing about Barbarey Wexley is by far her battle with sexuality. Wexley was born as Barbalee, a male in a small town in Australia. However, she claimed that she always felt like a female on the inside. At the age of seventeen, she decided to take action by
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
The next day, at weapons training, I didn't get a chance to further analyze summoning.Much to the chagrin of the first years, it was fitness day.As I tried my best to keep my lungs in my chest, I saw Raven. After the lecture, I let Dwayne and Daniel go ahead under the pretext of wanting to ask Mr. Hulio something. I went to the pond.“You came” she said.“Well, you asked me to.”“Is that the only reason why you came?”“Should there be another?”There was a silence.“So what's your story Raven, why are you here?”“I'm here because the Blessed Association took my father away. He is, well…was a Blessed under RPU, D squad. I don't know if he's still alive. He found out something about the Association, something that he shouldn't have. He decided to quit and run away with me and my mother. But before we could escape, the Blessed's caught us.”“The Director himself ended my mother's life, and his lakkies chained my dad up and took him away. I was hiding in the ceiling when all this happ
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
The week flew by.My summoning was still not battle-worthy, but there was a marked improvement in the formation of the weapons besides the Great-sword.They were becoming more tangible and visually correct with each session. The Director, however, still hadn't found any information concerning the axes.It was now the night of the dance.And that's when I met Raven again.A large tent that was similar to the ones used for outdoor wedding ceremonies was erected at the edge of the slope.The source of rhythmic hums and thumps stood a few meters shy from the teacher's quarters. Everything you'd expect to find at a dance party was there.Noisy EDM music blaring from the DJ's speakers on a raised wooden platform, various oily finger foods and bowls of punch, too many people in one place, and awkwardly positioned individuals within the shadows.Individuals such as Daniel, Dwayne, and myself.I tenderly sipped the spicy and slightly medicinal-smelling drink from the plastic cup in my hand. I
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Another reoccurring dream.This one is not quite as frequent as the others, but way more terrifying.Human corpses carpet the charred ground around me...Blue, orange, and red carcasses of creatures I've never seen before...Invaders, mixed in with lifeless human bodies in mangled and twisted positions.A hot, putrid smell thickens the air and assaults my nostrils.A scream from my left.A man is being torn apart by a grey thing. It uses its razor-sharp talons to slowly tear his jaw and front torso from the rest of his body.A few meters ahead, a man is driving his spear into the throat of a jaundice-colored hunchbacked humanoid thing. The Invader lets out a phlegm-like gurgle, its dying breaths. Its feast on the insides of a woman with a sword in her pale hand is brought to a halt.The woman’s lifeless eyes are glued on me.An obsidian-colored vulture-like thing emerges from the thick black mist that blankets the battlefield. It floats in one spot, its large wings flapping loudly. It
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Her voice was a low monotone. It was devoid of life, just like her skin.“Hie.”She placed her hand on the book and tilted it slightly. Her fingers were long, white, and delicate.“Architecture?”“It was either that or putting myself at the mercy of the librarian.”“I see.”She retracted her hand and hid it beneath the desk.“My name is Raven”, she said, “What's yours?”Her name was perfect considering the colour of her hair and the clothes she was wearing.I told her my name.“Can you keep a secret David?”“Depends.”“It's nothing illegal, well, not really.”“Are you sure you want to trust a stranger with a secret?”, I asked, “I could be the world's biggest snitch for all you know.”“That's why I asked if you can keep one” she said, “Besides, aren't strangers just friends you haven't met yet?”Growing up, I tried by all means to avoid situations where I would have knowledge of vital or sensitive information. It's not that I was a loud mouth, it was just unnecessary pressure.Listen t
CHAPTER TWELVE
When I left the Director's office, I stood outside his door for a while.I felt a distant but existent exhaustion.It felt like I had just come from a light jog. Summoning weapons wasn't as easy as it looked.I was in no particular rush to return to the Renchiology lecture. I figured that I was probably missing valuable knowledge of a visceral nature. But, I assumed that Mr. Kajulu would just think that I was still in the Director's office.I caught sight of Wish.She was in front of the board between the left entrance to the foyer and the recycling bin. She had what looked like a folded poster in her arm and a mouth full of drawing pins.When she saw me, she spat the pins into her left hand.“Hey Dave.”“Hey, you good?”I noticed then that she was a chain-user.“I'm good and you?”“Besides studying, I can't complain.”She flattened out the poster against the notice board and pinned it.That fragrance...It was as alluring as the first time I smelt it. It gave a much-needed burst of a
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