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Then, it hit me. I’d been so worried about finding my friends and proving that I hadn’t stopped time that I didn’t consider who really had.
Shaking, I pushed myself to standing. I had to get back to the office with Officer M. While I knew he was inept, I also knew we weren’t the only people who weren’t stuck frozen in time.
And the other person was likely the one who did this to us. But why? And why were we spared?
I gave Luka a quick kiss on the cheek, then made my way out of the locker room. As soon as I hit the hallway, I took off at a run for the office.
Good thing I was in such good shape now. I never realized that all the running I did in gym would be applied so literally to the things I did here at the academy.
Officer M was hanging up the phone when I arrived back at the office. I waited for him to tell me what was going on.
He looked up at me. “The lines are dead. No calls are going in or out.”
“What?” My heart raced. “Did someone cut the lines? Don’t you have magic to fix that or magic to contact people?”
“I do, yes,” he said. “But it appears that we’re in a time bubble.”
“What’s a time bubble?” I asked.
“Essentially, we’re totally sealed off from the outside world. Anything inside the bubble is suspended in time and anything outside the bubble is off limits to us. We can’t use modern technology or magic to communicate beyond the bubble.”
“Well, how do we break it?” I asked.
“You know, I have no idea,” he said. “It’s not exactly something they teach us since all time magic users were supposed to be dead.”
An icy chill ran down my spine. “Supposed to be?”
“Not like that,” he said. “I meant that you’re the first we’ve had record of since, well, your parents.”
“Right,” I said. “Obviously, your people aren’t very good at keeping records because clearly you’ve missed some.”
“It seems that’s the case,” he said.
“I don’t blame them, really,” I said. “If I knew that those with time magic were being hunted and labeled by the government, I would hide my powers, too.”
“You did hide your powers,” he said.
“Not on purpose,” I said. But for the first time in my life, I thought that maybe I understood why my alcoholic aunt in the human world had been my guardian. Who knew what would have become of me if someone in this world had raised me.
“Well, isn’t this a pretty sight? A school of frozen students and a useless officer of the guild,” a woman’s voice said.
I turned to see Professor Halifax standing in the office doorway, her hand on her hip. “I’m guessing you don’t have a plan for fixing this, do you?”
“Is it over?” I asked. “Is everyone unfrozen?”
She shook her head. “There are two rooms in this building that are magic proof. The first, as you’ve probably guessed is Dr. Green’s office.”
“Well, that explains why we weren’t hit,” I said. “The second?”
“The old dungeons,” she said. “Obviously they didn’t want people to use magic to break out prisoners.”
“Like confinement?” I asked, confused.
“No, old crumbling cells. We use them for storage now. They’re definitely not safe for long term stays. Thankfully, I was working on inventory.” She glanced around. “Where’s Dr. Green?”
“He said he had business to attend to,” Officer M said.
“It’s just us,” I said with mock cheerfulness.
