Spearwood Academy Volume Two (The Spearwood Academy Book 2) by A.S. Oren

Now that’s just crazy.
Almost as crazy as these guys. I hope my dad finds me soon and changes them
back to normal.
    “How
do we fix her?” asks Triton.
    “I’m
not broken and even if I were, I wouldn’t want your help.” I glare at him,
swallow hard, and look toward the fire.
    “He
obviously wants her to dislike Triton,” says Horace.
    “Why
do you hate me so much?”
    I don’t
even look at him. I can’t believe he is acting like he doesn’t know. “You know
what you did.”
    “Obviously,
I don’t, or I wouldn’t be asking.”
    “Drop
it. We have more pressing matters to discuss. Like how we are going to get her
back to her original self,” Dante’s irritation takes me by surprise, I have
never heard him get this way. “What reason would he have for doing this to her?
What advantage would it give him?”
    “Taking
away her undecided elemental ability is something that one of the Ancients
wants. A different one wants her to remain undecided. There is talk of war, but
I don’t know what it is for,” says Bullock.
    “How
do you know all this?” asks Horace.
    “I’m
an Outcast. They speak in front of me as if I’m invisible and stupid. They
sought me out and captured me because they knew of my abilities when it comes
to magic and air magic. They don’t know I heard them, but while transporting
me, they said I was in the school for the sole purpose of when she came along.
They didn’t know if they would have to capture her with force or not. This was
the last year she had a choice in the matter. Eventually, she came willingly,
so they didn’t have to take her from her home. As for someone to fix her, I
think I know of someone. A sea witch that has a shop in New York, she’s known
for being able to cure or curse anything.”
    Dante
runs a hand through his hair. “Then we need to figure out how to get out of
here and get her there. It seems like Roseman has plans for us as well. We need
to get out of here if we want to avoid his grasp on us.”
    They
are serious about this? They are actually planning to run away from Spearwood.
They truly have gone insane. Nobody has ever run away from Spearwood and lived
to talk about it.
     
    Horace
pushes his glasses up the bridge of his nose. “How are we going to get out of
here and to New York without being spotted? It’s not like we can just walk out
the front gate and be home free.” He thinks for a second. “We could use a Void.
Bullock could you transfer us there on your memories?”
    “Yes,
I should be able to transfer all of us, but we need to get further away from
the boundary of Spearwood. We are still too close, the Watchers would detect
the use of such powerful magic.”
    Dante
begins to pace, his hand to his mouth, as he thinks. “They will be looking for
us and there are Guardians at the base of the mountain. We will most likely
have to fight our way through, which means we don’t have to hold back anymore.”
    They
are serious. Do they have death wishes?
    “Should
we do full transformations or only our wings?” asks Maverick.
    “Both,
not all of us can do the full transformation yet.”
    “Are
you really serious about this?” I ask. “I wasn’t aware you had the college
level training to pull off full transformations. Though, since he ,” I gesture to Dante, “seems to have mastered the Voice,
I shouldn’t be that surprised.”
    “There
still seems to be a lot you don’t know. I guess that’s a good thing, it means
that Roseman doesn’t know them either,” says Horace.
    “If
you think I’m going to participate in this asinine plan, then you have another
thing coming.”
    Amr
sits forward and puts his hands together. “She’s right, how are we going to get
her to follow us, when she’s not in her right mind?”
    Dante
stops pacing and looks at me. He frowns and I give him a glare that should put
him six feet under. “Leave her to me. It won’t be permanent, but I should be
able to draw out the pieces of her old self