Panic crept into the edges of my mind, causing dizziness to wash over me.
“If I cannot teach you how to control your power,itwill controlyou, and you will not just become a Nightling. As a Bane, you will be their queen,” Master Clarke declared.
Blackness danced at the edges of my vision.
No. This isn’t true. He’s lying.
“I’ve heard enough,” I croaked. I felt sick, like I wanted to vomit out what I’d just heard and read, and never think about it again.
Something tugged on my gloved hand, and I glanced down to see Master Clarke looking up at me with a surprising amount of compassion.
“I regret not saving your mother from herself. Light willing, I will not make the same mistake with you.” For the first time since I’d met him, Ididtrust him. Even if it was only a little.
“Come on down here and I’ll get you your class schedule.” He motioned to another desk riddled with papers. “We can catch up on fae history another time.”
He was easing me in from eventually turning into a Nightling queen to just grabbing my class schedule?
Perfect.
I jumped down from the desk and pushed all of the information he’d just given me about the House of Ash and Shadow into a deep, dark box inside of myself and wrapped it in metal chains. I was going to stay away from that one for as long as I could.
Picking up the piece of paper, he jotted down something at the bottom and handed it to me.
I took it from him and scanned the classes.
“These will be adjusted as I see fit, as I am your advisor. Your powers will continue to come out in exercises and we can change some things around.”
Fallon Bane
Fae Class:Warrior
Year:One
Advisor:Master Clarke
1st Period:Pyrotechnics I Mrs. Bardot
2nd Period:Telekinesis I Mr. Whitlock
3rd Period:Weapons I Mr. Supra
Lunch
4th Period:Fae History I Mrs. Hilton
5th Period:Private Elective with Master Clarke
6th Period:Group Elective with Master Knight
And then, scrawled in Master Clarke’s handwriting, was:
*Tutoring three days a week after school.
“How do you know I have telekinesis and pyrotechnics as powers?” I asked him.
“Bane family specialty, among other things we do not teach at this school, such as shadow magic, curses, death, and destruction. Like what you did with the royal guard’s sword—that was destruction magic.”
I swallowed hard, assuming the curses and death part were a joke, but he wasn’t smiling.
