Novels by Nanya Hider

“Wouldn’t that make things harder” Someone asked.“On the contrary, it would make things faster” Another said.“We’ll split up in twos” Raphael said with a dull tone.“Perfect” Jenna smiled clinging even closer to him.“If you were smart enough, you would realise there are specifically different creatures on our team and of course that would have to do with the clues, so I refuse your suggestion, happy?” Cillian asked and this time Raphael narrowed his own eyes.“Let’s try to decipher what this means” Cillian said turning to the rest of us.“What if the two means second floor?” I asked and heard a snot and then full blown laughter.“How does that even make sense” Jenna laughed.“Go on” Cillian said ignoring her.“I mean, the second floor is usually isolated and all” I shrugged.“Let’s check it then” Cillian said and the house members grumbled but still moved forward.“Look at you using your little brain sweet apple” Cillian praised patting my head and I glared at him making him laugh.

The next week it was finally time for the Founder’s festival which was apparently lasting a whole week, the school had been seriously decorated and there was a large banner declaring the start of the festival.They had even gone as far as erecting a statue and when I asked Daphne she said they only erected the statue during the festival and always took it down, apparently it was the founder’s wish.I was currently reading what was on the statueEldric ValdarisFounder of Bridgeford highFounded in 1810Birth- 1415-1912- DeathThe man lived over 400 years and then died, I wondered what kind of creature, he had been. I stared at the statue. It was of him when he looked to be in his forties had he been human.I raised my hand to touch the statue and I immediately pulled back and winced. I looked at my palm and noticed it was red, almost like the statue was too hot to touch.I stared at the statue again and began to walk away.I looked at the school building in awe.“So bridgeford high wa

The next morning as I brushed my hair to go for assembly, my room door slammed open causing me to drop my brush and squeal a bit.“What the hell!” I shouted thinking it was Phoebe who came back drunk again but when I turned around my eyes widened.“Daphne!” I screamed and jumped on her, she caught me in a hug but almost immediately dropped me down.“You’ve caused me some serious trouble” She said with a small smile and her voice was badly cracked.“I’m sorry, what did they do to you?” I asked while examining her, in just a few days she had slimmed down, she had bruises and she reeked but I wasn’t telling her that yet.“Let’s just say, I wouldn’t be able to sing for a while” Hearing her say that made me frown deeper and I genuinely began to wonder what they had done to her.“Go for assembly, I need to have a deep bath, I’ll see you later” She said and I nodded, I squeezed her in a hug again and left the room.I quickly head to the assembly ground, where everyone is lining up. My mind g

When I come to, I’m in my room on the bed. I looked around the room and discovered that I was alone. My mind travelled back to what happened as I tried to recall how I ended up here.I remembered the solitary confinement and then the headmistress’ warning, my eyes widened again as I realised she had threatened to kill me much earlier than she planned, had I continued provoking her.Ember, I was about to enter the dining room after her when my vision became blurry, someone caught me before I fell, someone…Raphael?I remembered his face being the last thing I saw but the image was blurry, or was that a dream, how did I end up here then or did he carry me here?I was asking these questions to no one in particular. I had a slight headache and as I adjusted my position, my stomach began to grumble. I was still yet to have dinner, I had a feeling it was very late. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath and stood up from the bed.Daphne was in solitary confinement and I never knew where Ph

“Avery, you’re safe okay” she assured, “Here” She handed me her gold key.“You can hold onto it, until we return safely," she said and I nodded and without thinking, I took a deep breath and jumped inside. Not long after Ember jumped inside too, closing the door and we were met with total darkness.“Hold on” I heard Ember moving but couldn’t see her, suddenly the place was illuminated as fire spewed from her mouth until a torch lit where we were.The place looked like some medieval dungeon.We walked down and saw different metal doors where we couldn’t even see who was inside.Ember touched each door closing her eyes and stopped at one.She opened her eyes and turned to me, “She’s here”I made my way to the door where Ember was and slotted in her golden key and sure enough the key opened the door.Ember held the torch at the door and I entered, I found a figure crouched down on the dirty ground and noticing the lights and footsteps, she looked up.A frown marred my face as I took in t

Lucian sat at the front seat and dropped his back on the desk, not even bothering to greet anyone. Didn't he have friends or his friends weren’t the type to be in detention.I hear footsteps coming from the back and Marie passes me and heads towards the front seat, particularly towards Lucian.She stops in front of him and plops down on his desk, pushing his bag aside, her uniform had ridden up and her fair thighs were showing.I couldn’t really make out what she was saying but he was responding and there seemed to be a whole conversation.She eventually nodded and left, walking back to her seat but she wasn’t smiling.The rest of the detention went on quite boringly and the teacher never came back, making me wonder who’s homeroom teacher was.I packed my things and my book of doodles which was all I was doing for the past three hours into my bag. Immediately after the time elapsed, Lucian walked out of the class and people began to leave one by one.I walked out of the class and some