All the perfect moments are wrong
All the precious pieces are gone
Everything that mattered is just
A city of dust
Covering both of us
Through the Ghost
-Shinedown
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Rosalie Corben POV
"Something is wrong."
I'll say.
My fingers were tingling with magic all morning. As a matter of fact, they had been tingling for days. From the moment I woke to the moment my head hit the pillow, my hands were on fire. I even needed to see nurse Blainey for sleeping draughts just to find enough peace to sleep.
I kept my hands shoved in my pockets as I walked between classes on the second day of term. Even my new bracelets from Professor Sallow did not seem to be enough to absorb the excess magic seeping out of my hands. I could only pray that no one else could see it.
"Rose?" Carina's voice beckons to me from somewhere far away.
"Hm?"
"Something is wrong with Professor Sallow," she said again and I realized we had just arrived at Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom. I had been so focused on my hands I must have walked to class in a fugue state.
"It looks like Nott is teaching his classes again today. Did you not just see him three days ago when you returned from holiday? Was he well? Did he tell you anything?"
Carina asked far too many questions for so early in the morning,
"He was well enough," I shrugged my bag off my shoulder and retrieved my books and parchment. "I'm sure I don't know."
I did not want to talk about Professor Sallow, because his absence not what felt most amiss.
For two days while my hands surged with Ancient Magic, my insides were churning with despair.
Miss Fontaine had left without so much as a word to me.
No goodbye, nothing.
Perhaps she took Professor Sallow with her. Maybe, at this very moment, they were running off into the sunset together, abandoning me to figure out the next two trials on my own.
It was irrational, I knew it was. Still, the thought of their betrayal sent more shockwaves of Ancient Magic through my veins and into my hands.
Not even five minutes into class, my hands were so electrified I could no longer hold my quill steady.
That's it!
I swiped my books, quill and parchment back into the satchel I had just pulled them from. I slung the bag over my shoulder and made for the door. Carina clutched the hem of my robes, trying to force me to sit back down. I ripped myself free and carried on,
"Miss Corben, class is not dismissed," the Deputy Headmistress called after me.
"Well, I'm dismissing myself," I snapped back over my shoulder. The magic in my veins tingled, fueled by my aggravation.
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