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"What’s that?" I asked, pointing to the structure

"That was Ezzek’s estate," Zagg replied, pausing the iers on the location and e and twisted it, orienting the view from the front of the house

I felt my in mansion And it wasn’t just any oldin

Chapter 32

After class, I corralled Zagg in his classroorumbled and complained since it was lunchtime "What can you tell me about Moore’s house?" I asked hiainst his desk, a hand under one chin "Well, it was built before the university as a place for the Council to live during the campus construction After co positions and quarters inside the castle The Council of Seven renamed itself to the Arcane Council, and voted Alexander Tiberius as the first Chancellor"

It certainly explained why the place was so huge compared to the other houses on Greek Row "And it eventually became a fraternity house?" I asked

"Yep" He adjusted the holographic i above his desk to better show the mansion "In fact, Tiberius founded the first so-called fraternity Of course, he hadn’t intended for the members to turn into a bunch of alcoholic party ani of alooked at the open door Walked over and closed it When he returned, he took out his wand and ht increase in air pressure as an anti-eavesdropping ward dropped into place

I felt my forehead wrinkle "Geez, what’s with the secrecy?"

"I want to tell you so But you have to promise not to repeat it to anyone else"

"Pinky swear?" I asked

He snorted "You’ve followed through on your word to me about the other matter This is for your protection as well as mine"

"I promise to keep it a secret"

He nodded "Good" Glanced at the closed door once o, one of my students wrote a dissertation--"

"Wait, a dissertation? Isn’t that way above eleht "Let’s just say the story I’m about to tell you had political repercussions forcontinued his story "My forins andhis research, he cas One night, he showed up, a copy of his dissertation in hand, and scared out of his wits He told me people were after hih proxies, told him to cease work on his dissertation and find another subject He told n his care about a paper on fraternities? Were they afraid people would find out they ild and crazy in college and kick the shook his head "It wasn’t anything so si When I ca, I discovered someone had tripped or disabled the wards on my office, and all that remained of the dissertation was a pile of dust"

"They burned it?"

"No, they transically reconstituted"

"Why didn’t they just steal it? Seems kind of dramatic to turn it to dust"

The historian offered a wry s, if I’d put a tracker on it, I could have found those responsible I think whoever did it wanted to send a crystal clearor end up like this?"

He nodded "My thoughts exactly Trans paper to dust is no simple matter Whoever did it was very powerful I reco a la of the library instead Passed with flying colors"

I raised an eyebrow and wrinkled oodhed

He smiled and continued "I was curious to find out why important people would care about the crackpot theories of one doctoral candidate While his paper read a lot like so bred from the wild fantasies of a kid who reads too s At that point I had to admit his paper held water"

I still didn’t understand where Zagg was going with this "Are we still talking about fraternities here?"

"As aabout the very first one on campus But it was more than a fraternity It was a secret order"