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Shadow help.
Mad-Dragon scare Shadow.
Shadow fight.
Miki-Leopard help.
Mad-Dragon scare Miki-Leopard.
Miki-Leopard fight.
I know, sweetheart. You and Shadow were very brave.
Tell me brave.
Tell Shadow brave.
I couldn’t hold in my chuckle, which startled the professors. “Sorry, my leopard would like me to inform you that she was very brave.”
Shadow too.
Headmistress Blackthorn looked confused. “So you’re telling usyouwere brave.”
Down the way, Jasmine snickered.
“I guess it probably seems that way, but Miki-Leopard isn’t like other shifter leopards. She was very scared when she heard Zowen’s voicein there.”
The professors all gave each other concerned looks.
Great. Now they all probably thought I was having some sort of identity crisis.
“Look, I’m the daughter of a witch and a shifter and I was born with—” a fuck-ton “—alotof magical power. What I wasnotborn with was a leopard.”
“We already know this, Ms. Mitchell,” the Headmistress said, “but obviously youweresince?—”
“No,” I interrupted. “I wasnot. What happened in the Shadow Realm wasnotmy leopard manifesting. It was ashadow-leopardbeing born of the shadows and a portion of my own dormant DNA.
“Miki-Leopard is a sentient, separate being sharing my body. She has a voice and a personality and they are not thesame as mine.”At all.“So when I say she was being brave, I mean it. She is, in essence, four months old and she just fought the monster we’reallterrified of. She was very brave and so was Shadow.” I glanced at Kasi, who smiled back at me.
Brave Shadow. Brave Miki-Leopard..
“I see,” Headmistress Blackthorn spoke slowly. “In that case, I apologize, Ms. Mitchell. I don’t suppose enrolling you in a class about controlling your inner beast was very well-received by Miki-Leopard.”
I smiled. “She doesn’t really understand the implications yet, so it’s been okay. She didn’t enjoy today’s simulation, though, and I’m concerned that some of the curriculum here at the Academy is a littleinappropriate for a leopard who’s in essence still a toddler, but I’ll chat with my professors about how we can best shield her from the more upsetting aspects. In the meantime, I’m more concerned about figuring out how Zowen’s trespassing in my dreams.”
“We were going to see if Mikaela’s roommate, Leslie, could help us, but no one seems to have seen her,” Elliot said.
The headmistress glanced at Professor Dunlop, who admitted, “I’m afraid your roommate is missing, Ms. Mitchell. Our Academy security spells indicate she walked through the front doors of the Academy this past Sunday. However, they’ve been unable to tell us where she is or if she’s attended any of her classes.”
“The professors are all somewhatconfused about whether they’ve seen her or not,” Blackthorn said.
“If she walked in the front door and the professors are confused, how do you even know she’s missing?” I asked.
The headmistress sighed. “We were contacted by Leslie’s coven earlier this summer. She’d been having difficulties and they—well, they cast her out of the coven.”
“What? But why?” I exclaimed.
“There are many reasons, none of which I should share with you,” Headmistress Blackthorn said. “However, I am concerned that immediately after she went missing, Zowen somehow managed to infiltrate your dreams, not to mention one of our classroom labs, so I’m going to share this. I expect not onesingle word to be spread outside this room. Is that understood?”
