Despite a growing feeling of hopelessness, he spent the entire weekend sifting through library texts, finally abandoning that avenue of research when it became obvious it wasn’t producing any results. On top of that, the library workers were starting to give him weird looks at his choice of literature and he didn’t want to create any unfortunate rumors. Hopefully he would be able to trick Zach into revealing what the hell was going on when school started.
“You’re late.”
Zorian looked at Akoja’s stern face in quiet contemplation. He was glad he wouldn’t have to deal with any drama because of his disastrous evening with her—almost as glad as he was about the fact that he wasn’t dead. But he couldn’t help but wonder what her outburst the night of the dance had been about. She didn’t reall
