lordharshmage

He closed his journal and looked at the clock with a sigh.  Midnight, he mused, rolling the word over and over in his mind.    Bryan had been studying for the exam Christopha was giving in the morning, and as his custom of writing before bed, he’d been up reading and writing for the last four hours at his desk.    I’m glad Andarlin put me in the staff housing area. No roommates to deal with, he silently thanked the Academy Headmaster.    That was, until there was a sharp, quick knock at the door, barely audible.    Slowly pulling himself out of his chair, he went to open it, thinking it had to be someone with something impor

The laboratory was billowing smoke out its door into the hallway.  There was no heat, and not even any students rushing out to escape the thick black clouds, but all the same, at 2:00 a.m. the fire alarm for the Kandallar Labs went off.  The two guards in the Leftwatch Tower jolted awake, and scrambled down the stairs to the adjoining building to find Bryan step out, soot-ed black, save for his white teeth showing in a grin.      "Hi guys!" he said to Jox and Benny, the two guards, who rolled their eyes when they saw Bryan.      "Jox, go turn off the alarm.  I'm gonna talk to Bryan, again, about a good nights rest," Benny, a second year stu