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The cold silence

Author: Fay Manual
last update Last Updated: 2025-08-20 19:39:58

Chapter Fifteen

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The day after the garden incident felt really strange and unreal.

The west hall of the academy was still scarred from where Jason and I had landed. Broken marble, faint burns along the wall, and a smell of smoke in the air reminded me it was not a nightmare. It actually did happen yesterday. Headmistress Morwen had cornered me, nearly taken me, and Jason had pulled me away at the very last minute.

But now, as the sun shone calmly across the sky, the academy was quieter than usual.Classes had already ended for today. The students talked in low tone, and the usual noise of the grounds was swallowed by an unusual quietness.

I sneaked out to the old glasshouse at the edge of the academy. Unlike the lonely garden, this place wasn’t broken or forgotten. It was simple, overgrown, and calm.

I thought I’d be alone here.

But Raven was already there before me.

He sat on the edge of a stone bench, he was looking unsettled like something bothered him, his hands loose betwee
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