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17
Raven
“So he’s a goblin?”I asked as we walked out of the office.
“You didn’t know?” Professor Halifax asked as she wiped her palm on her dress.
“No,” I said. “He creeps me out.”
“That’s because he’s untrustworthy and useless,” she said. “But he’ll keep his word. He has no choice.”
“Do you really think I can fix this?” I asked.
She stopped walking, right next to a group of students who were frozen while shoving another student against the wall. “I hope so, but we haven’t really tested what you can do.”
“This is the only way, isn’t it?” I asked.
“I’m afraid so,” she said.
“Who do you think did this?” I asked.
She shook her head. “I wish I knew. My guess is the word is out about you and that someone else is looking for someone with your skill set.”
“Another thief?” My breath caught. I didn’t want to go through all of that again.
“I don’t think so.” She paused, as if considering. “But I’m starting to think you aren’t the only one with time magic. Maybe a distant relative or something? Who knows? When you get out of here, you might even want to find whoever it was. Maybe it’s not a malicious thing.”
I hadn’t considered that. “Freezing a whole school seems like a pretty big thing to do out of the goodness of someone’s heart.”
She shrugged. “Could be a show of power? Or a test? I suppose there are a lot of possibilities.”
“I guess so,” I said, not feeling comfortable with any of the suggestions.
“We should go to my classroom, we’ll be more comfortable there.” She turned and started walking away.
I looked over at the scene in front of me. One mage girl was up against the wall, her shoulders lifted up near her ears as she braced herself for impact. She looked terrified.
Three mage boys surrounded her, one had his hands on her and the other two had their arms extended. They were all laughing.
I moved next to the girl and carefully dragged her away from them, propping her against the wall nearby.
Then I shoved one of the mages so he fell against the wall and the other two were about to push him.
There were some good things about stopping time.
Quickly, I ran after Professor Halifax. She was already in her classroom. Walking out of her back storage area with a couple of cushions in her hand. Thankfully, it was empty of students.
“You were lucky that you were in the basement,” I said.
“Yes,” she agreed. “Had it not been my free period, I’d be just as frozen as the rest of you. Guess it was good that Dr. Green asked me for my inventory numbers today.”
“Where is he? Do you know? He’s usually there for my parole meetings.”
She set the cushions on the floor in the center of the room. “I’m not sure. It’s not often that he leaves his office. I always thought that was partially because of the magic seal in there. If he’s in there, there’s always someone who is safe if there’s a spell that backfires or an attack on the school.”
“Why don’t they just put that on the whole school to prevent that?” I asked.
She smiled. “How would you practice magic then? You can’t cast spells in those rooms, either.”
