LOGINThe librarian directed me to a corner of the library that was dark and smelled of wet leather. All of the books and tombs around me looked at least a hundred years old. If not more.“I usually don’t bring students back here,” the librarian stated. “But I’d recently come across a lost tomb and placed
I frowned and turned to figure out a plan with Loren. As I looked at her, I saw she was shocked into place. I pinched my eyebrows together and gave her a look. Her jaw was clenched and purple eyes wide. Her skin was almost the color of her white hair. I looked back at the girl and was incredibly con
I stumbled back into my room and Loren was at her desk. She immediately stood up as I walked in. She launched herself at me and I sighed into the hug, allowing my body to finally relax.“I’m so sorry!” Loren sputtered. “I knew I should’ve stopped talking but I couldn’t and I –”“I’m sorry,” I said b
Maximus’s eyes bulged again, color draining from his skin. His gold eyes fixes on mine. “Four?” He said slowly, as if the word was foreign to him. I nodded back. He sat back and stared at his floor again. He repeated the number again, as if trying to wrap his brain around it. Then his eyes went wide
Maximus pulled me into his room and immediately brought me to his bed. He sat us both down and I curled into him. My heart was still erratically beating in my chest as I choked on my breath. Maximus ran a hand down my spine, soothing me slightly but not enough that I stopped wheezing.We sat in sile
The next evening, I was feeling no better at my current situation and Loren could tell. Was it because I’d been swirling my cereal in the same pattern for the whole hour? Perhaps. But I’d like to think it was because Loren was a wonderful friend.“Do you…want to talk about it?” she asked as my spoon







