Chapter 145

"When he came back here, he told me he'd destroy it," the headmistress said.

"So you destroyed him first." My whole body trembled, and I thought I might be sick. "Why skin-walk as Ramsey?"

"A fluke really. He was the first person I thought of since he kept bothering me about the maps of the academy. Though it would have been nice if you'd killed Ramsey to silence him, I knew he'd never find the Staff of Sullivan."

"Did you steal it?"

"No. The headmaster before me did."

"Why?"

"Because no one knew what it did other than give an entire family its power, and not knowing all that a magical relic is capable of is dangerous."

And now the staff and the stone were joined. But why, unless...?