A long jagged line cut parallel to the seam of the diary. More pages had been torn out, likely revealing exactly where the professor was. What was it about books at this academy not being allowed to keep all their pages? "How would she know that when he's been missing for months?" I asked. "When no one else can find him? Was...was that why she was murdered?" "I don't know." He blinked hard so the snow clinging to his lashes fell to his cheeks, and he absently wiped them off. "But someone obviously found this diary, maybe the same someone who killed her, to rip the answers out." I looked to the rock where he'd found the book and then to the lemon tree. "Do you think she came here with the invisibility spell written on her because she felt she couldn't tell anyone for some reason? And th

