23 Amelia After Aisling fully recovered, his fathers left the Academy because of work, but Imogen remained in the Academy because she, in her words, missed her son and was taking a much needed vacation. Two days before Imogen was to leave Camdine Academy, Reece was walking me to my room, telling me about a mission he and a temporary unit had taken on but could not execute properly because of lack of tacit understanding, when he paused halfway through a sentence. When he sniffed at the air, I also sniffed at the air, but I couldn’t smell anything. What alarmed me, however, was that I also couldn’t hear anything when I opened up my senses. There were no sounds in the air. The only thing I could hear was dead silence, which was unusual because it was just a little late in the evening. A

