shade to hide under, as I also burned like a redhead, it was enjoyable.
I found Shifter Culture I fascinating. Any discussions about bear shifters were hard for me because it brought up issues with Mason, but I was also curious since Lucca was my mate. My life was complicated and so was I. For now, I thought it best to leave it at that and cut myself some slack.
Physics wasn’t too bad with Darby’s help. He was putting whatever language Professor Richardson spoke into English for me, and I was fairing pretty well. I would never be friends with physics, but we wouldn’t be enemies because my magic jumped to the end, so life gave me a break with that.
Magical Advancements 101 was a fascinating topic, but Professor Campbell was annoying me. She either enjoyed having her head in the sand, or she truly hadn’t heard the warnings Dean White had given her that the shit we were dealing with was real. Either way, she was supposed to be the adult, and it wasn’t my problem she was acting like a kid picked last on the playground or some shit.
It was a shame because I had thought things would get better between us after she had moved past pursuing Craftsman.
Potions class was not a good time for me. I went to Professor Pillay with questions on the ingredients for my first assignment as Dean White had instructed, and just as she had guessed, Professor Pillay had immediately known the problem. She had brought it right to McGrath at dinner and given him an earful in front of witnesses that he needed to be more careful with his lessons. She hinted the alternative could only be he was bullying a student, and teachers got fired for that.
Immediately naming the former Professor Koch, who used to teach all the mental shielding classes and had tenure, which he thought made him untouchable.
So, for the moment, McGrath was being incredibly careful with me, pleading it was an absolute mistake and random luck I got the packet with a bad ingredient. He even went so far as to fib that he thought others were contaminated and took full responsibility as some of the items came in later than expected. After promising he would handle it all now that he was fully settled in, Pillay backed off.
But he was rallying. I knew that from his thoughts. Larson had helped me distract him, and according to what the others thought, I pretended to use some fairy rune to nullify McGrath’s telepathy blocking charm. It was good cover for now.
Still, I hated that I had to be on such guard while trying to learn all I should and do my job as a college student.
Plus, it was hard to have that far end of the crazy spectrum and then swing all the way back on the pendulum right after lunch during Runes 201, where I completely tuned out my ex-lover. So… Good times.
The only thing that helped was before lunch, I got out some of my frustration and aggressive feelings towards McGrath by have a quick trip wherever to rescue more hobgoblins. I was getting so many right under peoples noses that it really helped my stress levels and to cope with everything else I had to deal with in my life.
I ended the third week of classes by plotting to hit up three large estates right by each other Saturday before lunch. Izzy was my alibi on the weekends, just in case. It was something I’d never ask for, but those close to me were itching to help the hobgoblins anyway they could, just as I was. Who was I to deny them?
I opened the temp portal in my closet and went through with a shadow rune. The fae dogs were waiting for me, able to sense me, even with the rune. This group wasn’t sworn to me, but I could still read their minds and got the information I needed. I mentally thanked them and confirmed the next location and when I would meet them before they headed out.
Making my way to the fancy brick wall that surrounded the estate wasn’t a problem. It was the tension in the air that worried me. Something felt… Off. My spidey senses that sometimes picked up impending danger weren’t going crazy. There weren’t a bunch of guards around that would have been out of place for an estate that size.
Maybe something had happened with that group that had left