Chapter 33: Cassandra

"This place has gotten too creepy," Ruby said. "I'm glad the semester is about over. It feels lonely as hell with everyone still sick and sleeping." She put away her dishes and returned to the living room. "It sucks not knowing what to do. It sucks even more waiting around while those assholes plan another attack."

"I think we're close." I turned on the couch. "Oliver's in the classroom building now, working on breaking the spell. He's trying to find out more about Ren and the headmaster, searching on his computer for any work the two may have put out on the Internet before it was banned."

"Edius has been curiously absent during all this," Ruby said. "That's what really worries me. You know, I keep going back to last year when Edius and Challis attacked the campus. He had the opportunity to kill me, and he didn't. He just stared at me. Why?"