Category: Chatoyant College

A story set in the world of Chatoyant College.

Chatoyant College, Chatoyant College Book 13: The Teeth

Chatoyant College Book 13: Chapter 17: Cold Spot

claredragonfly

A short while later, Professor Lal came around to ask them for their reports. Rico reported on the wind blowing harder down the highway, and Professor Lal nodded, pleased. Then she turned to Dawn.

“I could sense a storm to the east,” Dawn said. “At least, I think it was a storm.” She described how she had felt the air swirling, eddying about itself on a grand scale, moving slowly as it was pushed by the prevailing chilly wind.

Professor Lal’s eyes actually widened. “That sounds like a storm, indeed. How far was it? Miles?” Continue reading “Chatoyant College Book 13: Chapter 17: Cold Spot” →

Chatoyant College, Chatoyant College Book 13: The Teeth

Chatoyant College Book 13: Chapter 16: The Farthest Air

claredragonfly

Dawn moved down the hill obediently, smiling at Rico as she did. “You sensed the current?”

He nodded. “It was weird, because it was going in a completely different direction than the air I could feel. Professor Lal must have been doing that distance magic thing.”

Dawn nodded. They had learned early in the semester to do elemental magic at a distance, rather than letting it pour only from their own bodies as they had in Intro to Magic. When she’d told Corrie about it, Corrie had said she would definitely have to take Intermediate Elementalism the next time it was offered.

Continue reading “Chatoyant College Book 13: Chapter 16: The Farthest Air” →

Chatoyant College, Chatoyant College Book 13: The Teeth

Chatoyant College Book 13: Chapter 15: Air Currents

claredragonfly

Dawn grinned as she saw Rico on the path and waved at him. He waved back and waited for her to catch up, and they walked arm-in-arm to their next class—which she was glad to be having outside.

As the semester had gone on and the weather had improved, they’d had more and more of their Intermediate Elementalism classes outdoors. Both water and air magic were safer and better to do outdoors, so Professor Lal explained, and that explanation made sense to Dawn. If it hadn’t been for their specially designed magic classrooms, fire might have been safer to do outside, as well. With earth, it didn’t matter.

Continue reading “Chatoyant College Book 13: Chapter 15: Air Currents” →

Chatoyant College, Chatoyant College Book 13: The Teeth

Chatoyant College Book 13: Chapter 14: Threads of Magic

claredragonfly

Professor Rook was looking over someone else’s written assignment as Corrie approached, but when she reached his desk he looked up and nodded at her. “Corrie. I know this class has been frustrating for you, and I’m glad to see that you’ve had some success.”

She couldn’t help smiling. “I didn’t think I was psychic at all, and it turned out I was just waiting for the last class.”

He shook his head. “We still have mediumship to go, but that will be last. Very few have that ability, however, so do not be surprised if distance sight is, indeed, the only psionic ability you possess.”

Continue reading “Chatoyant College Book 13: Chapter 14: Threads of Magic” →

Chatoyant College, Chatoyant College Book 13: The Teeth

Chatoyant College Book 13: Chapter 13: Testing Abilities

claredragonfly

Professor Rook was watching the class, his expression bored, but he caught Corrie’s eye and nodded slightly to her. She grinned back at him. She’d finally found something she could do, and do easily.

She glanced around the room to see that no one else was looking up in excitement, though a few people looked frustrated and others looked interested, staring down into their bowls with great concentration. Then she turned back to her bowl. She couldn’t just sit here and bask in her newfound ability. Like with elemental magic, she had to see how far she could go.

Maybe she should look for things that she didn’t know as well—places she could picture, but not clearly. Then she would have an idea of how well she needed to know a place before she could look at it with distance sight.

Continue reading “Chatoyant College Book 13: Chapter 13: Testing Abilities” →

Chatoyant College, Chatoyant College Book 13: The Teeth

Chatoyant College Book 13: Chapter 12: Distance Sight

claredragonfly

“The first thing you should do,” Professor Rook told them, his drawling voice washing over them like a slow wave, “is choose a location to look for. It may be best to choose a location on campus, something you can picture clearly. Unless you have tried this before and have confidence that your abilities can stretch a good distance, choose a location that is close by. You must start out with easy choices in order to reach the more difficult ones later. However, it must be something you cannot physically see at this moment.”

Corrie sighed silently and tried to think of something she’d like to look at in distance sight. She didn’t think she’d be any better at it than she’d been at any of the other psionic abilities. The only one she’d had any success with was pyrokinesis—and that was just because she’d gotten frustrated and used fire magic.

Continue reading “Chatoyant College Book 13: Chapter 12: Distance Sight” →

Chatoyant College, Chatoyant College Book 13: The Teeth

Chatoyant College Book 13: Chapter 11: Rumors and Speculation

claredragonfly

Corrie walked to her magic class with the question of Elrath’s glamour on her mind. Would he have had to keep it up deliberately in order for it to continue after his death? That certainly argued for the theory that he had committed suicide. But if the glamour would have stayed with him after he died no matter what, that didn’t tell them anything.

If he had committed suicide, she didn’t think the administration needed to worry about anyone else following him. As far as she could tell, no one had known him well, so their grief wouldn’t drive them to it. In fact, if the people wanting to know more about him had talked to Dawn in an attempt to learn something, then she doubted she would be able to find people who were actually friends with him.

Continue reading “Chatoyant College Book 13: Chapter 11: Rumors and Speculation” →

Chatoyant College, Chatoyant College Book 13: The Teeth

Chatoyant College Book 13: Chapter 10: Motivations

claredragonfly

Corrie stared at Charlie, her mouth half open. Elrath was the victim? It was hard to believe. He was such a big, scary guy—surely he could take care of himself.

What could have killed him? And why?

But a moment later, she felt herself relax a little. She couldn’t be sure what would have killed him, but she could imagine many reasons why. He must have made himself enemies among the faeries. Even Tom didn’t like him—could Tom have killed him?

Continue reading “Chatoyant College Book 13: Chapter 10: Motivations” →

Chatoyant College, Chatoyant College Book 13: The Teeth

Chatoyant College Book 13: Chapter 9: The Victim

claredragonfly

Thursday, May 11

Corrie slept badly that night. She was inclined to blame the fact that she hadn’t been able to get out for her run the morning before, but she knew it was just as likely to be stress in not knowing who was dead. All her friends were okay, but she was friendly with a lot of people on campus. What if it was one of the girls she chatted with in her art class? Or someone she just smiled at when she walked back and forth to her classes?

If it was a stranger, that would almost be worse. If she was a student, Corrie would feel bad for not getting to know her before she died. If she wasn’t someone who belonged on campus, then that would be very scary in a completely different way. What would she have been doing there?

Continue reading “Chatoyant College Book 13: Chapter 9: The Victim” →