Lagomorphs (The Eaglesclaw Chronicles, Book #1)
Eaglesclaw American School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is located in New England, and has just opened its doors in September to a fresh batch of first-year students. Meet Jade, a quiet third-year Grizzleheart, nervously anticipating having to get to know even more new people. Surprising everyone, she bonds with first-years Alana and West. Everything seems fine...right? Wrong. Strange things are going on around the castle. Potion ingredients are disappearing, the Divination teacher has a jarring prophecy, and students claim to have seen, late at night, a tall shadow which would slowly shrink and then flee into the darkness. When a student goes missing, Jade finds herself tangled in the threads of a magical mystery, but can she and her new friends solve it in time?
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Last Updated
05/31/21
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Chapter 9
Jade was in the school library once again, although this time she was alone. She had skipped lunch, and was using that time combined with her two hour free period to read everything she could get her hands on that even mentioned an intruder. She had school histories, student diaries, books of defensive spells, histories of prophecies, and even a few Muggle stories about detectives.
She sat in the armchair by the window, books surrounding her. They were in piles on the floor, in an unsteady heap on the side table next to the chair, in her lap, and scattered helter-skelter across the carpet. When Jade had deposited them, some had closed, but some had landed open, and their pages were riffling in an unseen breeze.
"Ugh," Jade sighed as she tossed aside A Prophetic History, which was four hundred pages of her life she would never get back. She leaned forward to grab Eaglesclaw: A Brief History, her stomach rumbling, but her eye was caught by a worn book with a leather cover. Carefully (she had been attacked by enchanted books, so determined to protect their secrets they had bitten her, before) she lifted the book off of the floor.
The book was plain, and when she pried it open it was labeled as The Diary of Elissa Jones, Third Year 1901. The writing inside of it was strong and assured, but many things were crossed out or scribbled over, even at first glance. But still, 1901 was when the first intruder attack had happened. The first page was blank when Jade flipped to it, except for one printed phrase.
THIS BOOK IS THE PROPERTY OF ELISSA JONES. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Jade flipped nervously to the next page. She felt light-headed and ridiculously hungry, but she passed the light-headedness off on her excitement to read the journal.
September 5th, 1901
Today was the craziest day! It started out normally enough, only I missed breakfast. Classes were boring, Allie teased me again, and I got a failing grade on my Potions submission. I have to do remedial classes for the rest of the month!
Jade skimmed through the journal until she found the words 'intruder', 'announcement', and 'danger'.
September 13th, 1901
The headmaster is going to make an official statement about the attacks today. I'm so scared. I heard a rumor that the intruder is going to steal a student, but I think it might be true. I haven't seen Allie anywhere, and she is always following me around. I haven't seen her since we got dismissed from Herbology yesterday. I'm really worried. Should I ask? Oh...It's time for the announcement. I will write aga
The rest of the page had been torn out. Feverishly, her head swimming, Jade flipped through the book, but the rest of it was gone. A shred of paper floated down, newly torn, and she stared at it. This meant that someone had come through very recently and taken out the pages. With a thump, Jade fainted.
