Poison: A Dragonian Series Novella (The Dragonian Series) by Adrienne Woods

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    CHOOL HAD FINALLY started. Isabel and Lucille drove us to the port. I had a private one that was going to take me to a secluded area in Elm’s port. We could easily sneak out the back and wouldn’t be bothered with too many questions.
    Before we knew it we were inside our rooms back at the Academy.
    “Elena, are you sure you don’t want the private room Master Longwei offered you?” Becky wanted to know.
    “Are you insane? I get why Lucian loved Dragonia so much. You can be yourself behind those big gates. No, I’m staying right here.”
    We unpacked our bags and left to attend the welcome ceremony that was held in the Amphitheatre around four.
    I was a third year. Never thought I would ever make it to third year. This year would’ve been Lucian’s last. I really needed to try to get him out of my system, but I couldn’t. It was hard to let someone like him go.
    Cheng had finished last year and I had to admit, the halls were a bit empty without him roaming inside of them.
    I got plenty of stares as I walked through the hallway to the Amphitheatre.
    Tabitha just glared at me as she walked past me and I kept staring at the back of her head as she went to the spot she and Blake used to share.
    “Tabits!” Peter yelled and she stopped.
    I looked at Becky. “Tabits?” She giggled.
    “He claimed her over the summer.”
    “Peter claimed Tabitha!” I remembered when he’d made jokes in Professor Pheizer’s class a couple of months ago before he ascended, about how she was going to become his if he did turn out to be an ice wielder.
    “Wish I’d been there to see it.”
    “I do not want to know what my brother is going to do.” Sammy chirped and she froze. “Sorry Elena.”
    I giggled. “Don’t worry, it’s not like that,” I said and hoped that Tabits would hear it too.
    Master Longwei welcomed each and every one of us back. To our surprise all the tutors from the last few semesters were all here. No new professor or a scaly Wyvern this time.
    I could still remember that day, Lucian was still sitting next to me, while Paul just stared at me. I wished many times that I could go back in time and tell him what was going to happen. But that wasn’t how things worked. He was gone and nothing was ever going to bring him back.
    At dinner time I ate in my room. I hated the stares and even felt like an alien in the cafeteria. My friends couldn’t yell this time, they would stop glancing for five minutes and then I would look up and find like ten of them staring again.
    We finished with my mom’s first journal. It ended with my father’s death which didn’t make any sense.
    Becky and Sammy just stared at me.
    “I swear, it’s right here. Albert died,” I said. “Nothing else.”
    “But he didn’t die?” Becky said and she got up and took my mother’s journal out of my hand.
    “There are three more journals, I’m sure they will clear it up.”
    “Oh crap, it’s like almost twelve! I’m going to be a zombie tomorrow.”
    “Then let’s go to bed,” I said.
    “But I want to know…”
    “Bed, Becky!” Sammy and I sang in unison.
    We all just giggled and switched off the light and climbed into our own beds.
    I couldn’t help but think of Blake and where he was. Whether he knew I was thinking about him, I didn’t know, but he was on my mind right before I went to bed almost every night.
     
     
    LENA, CAN YOU you tell me the substance?” Sir Edward asked with Professor Gregory standing next to him.
    Yes, the dragon and rider classes were different. We had two lecturers, one always a Dragonian and the other a dragon.
    In this case, Sir Edward was the dragon and Professor Gregory his rider.
    “Sorry, I don’t know.”
    “You need to pay attention, Elena. We are counting on you to know these things when The Rubicon comes back.”
    There it was again, when the Rubicon comes back.
    My eyes shifted to Tabitha who was two