Liora’s POV
The morning after my father returned to the palace, I woke to the sensation of someone shaking my arm. Groaning, I cracked my eyes open to see Mia kneeling on my bed with a grin.
“Wake up!” she announced. “School is canceled for the day!”
“Hmmm?” I rubbed my eyes and yawned. “Why?”
“Look outside.” Mia jumped off the bed and padded over to the window, where the glass was spiderwebbed with frost. Pressing her nose and hands to the glass, she said, “Ice storm!”
Curious, I climbed out of bed and joined her. Indeed, the entire campus seemed to have turned to one big ice skating rink in the middle of the night; the walkways were slick and shiny with ice, long icicles hung from the tree branches, and I even watched as one of the custodians slipped and nearly fell o
