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“Bye!”

The word came out with far too much enthusias excitement just wore off on me

I took in a deep breath and let it out hard, staring at the place I was going to be sleeping over the break I h I’d had multiple roommates—of the tiny, furry, bald-tailed variety—but at least I’d known that place It’d been familiar It’d been mine

I hadn’t wanted to let it go, but there’d been no point inin… well, wherever the Magic Blessed campus was hidden I honestly didn’t even knohat country it was in, since I traveled to and from the place via a portal that was attuned specifically to me The campus itself was in a re the se area

I shook hts of the academy After what I’d overheard at the end of the se about lately, and I needed a fucking break For the ht about Boston all the ti here, especially after the Gods’ Challenge

Grabbing an to unpack As I did, my mind wandered to the other subject I hadn’t been able to stop thinking about: the three s for The three un the semester as my worst adversaries and ended it as the only three people I trusted implicitly

Like I said, a lot had changed

They’d all split from the academy for the winter break too, so I wouldn’t see theain

It was the only reason I was looking forward to going back If it hadn’t been for the on at that place, I would’ve considered not returning to school at all—although I was sure they’d just send Oberon and his teaain, and that it wouldn’t be pleasant

But it wasn’t inon at Magic Blessed, and I wasn’t gonna just let it slide I was going to figure out why the hell they organized a competition that was intended to kill students And if the only way to get ansas to go through the Gods’ Challenge again, well then, fuck it

I survived once I can survive again

But you barely survived, a little voice in uys like that? To let theain?

That was the only part ofto riskto do But I hated the idea of putting Merrick, Lachlan, or Trace in peril And that, s I was starting to develop for them