Chapter 2.
I hurried out of the library’s only entry and exit, the front door. I pulled the heavy door shut, therefore locking it behind me.
The rest of the school was quiet, deathly so.
It was time for bed, I knew that. There was a ten o’clock curfew placed on students, though goodness knows why, considering there was nowhere to go around this place.
I didn’t know what time it was, but I was pretty sure it was getting close to ten, if it wasn’t already past.
My skin tingled with excitement and worry.
I couldn’t just go back to my room after what I’d seen. I needed to know what was going on near the Grizzled Forest.
Decision made, I increased my stride as I walked along the corridor and found the exit into the West Quad. It was the safest way to get around to the north without being
