With exams behind them and only one more week before the end-of-year party and summer vacation, Shadowhunter Academy felt more like camp than school. Flick couldn’t believe he’d been here the whole school year; he couldn’t believe he’d survived the year. He’d learned Latin, runic writing, and a smattering of Chthonian; he’d fought tiny demons in ( Read more... )

Isabelle had said she wanted to make the best of her time at the Academy, and she’d proposed they not make it any harder than it needed to be. Unfortunately, Flick soon discovered, these two things were mutually exclusive. Because Isabelle’s version of making the best of things involved Isabelle stretched out like a cat on one of the student lounge ( Read more... )

As the year was winding down, Shadowhunter Academy apparently thought they'd slack off by giving the students a bunch of guest speakers and lectures. Tessa Gray, who was apparently some old timey warlock, appeared first, and told them a story about Jack the Ripper. Now, Flick had heard of the man, the myth, the legend but he'd never heard it from ( Read more... )

A few days later, their history lecturer, the warlock Catarina Loss, announced that she was handing the class over to a special guest.

( Flick looked vaguely interested... )

Isabelle's visit had buoyed Flick for awhile now. It wasn't the same as seeing her all the time like he was used to but it'd been good, it'd been really, really good. Right now, he was sitting in his dank, dark room with George and Simon.

( George was trying to scrub the walls... )

One good thing about Simon finally manning up and deciding to join the mundanes was that Flick ended up with a roommate he already knew fairly well. Simon brought some kid named George Lovelace with him so there were now three of them in one room ( Read more... )

Their arrival to Shadowhunter Academy had been with less fanfare and more chaos than Flick had hoped. When they'd arrived at the at the imposing gray building, there'd been people milling around at front. Upon seeing Catarina Loss and her two companions, one had broken away and ran right at them, seizing Catarina by the shoulders and exclaiming ( Read more... )