EXCERPT:
I’m not going to lie to you, not yet, but not all monsters are bad. Even monsters think they are the heroes in their own story. Honestly, I half expected to be arrested and disposed of, once I found out that the portal led to a university controlled by the council, never to be seen or heard from again. Labeled as an anomaly the guardians were supposed to eliminate me, but a prophesy from the Oracle changed things a bit. Not nearly enough to be considered safe by any means, but enough that no one knew who I was outside of the fact that I was supposed to lead them to the Oracle’s successor.
Mysterious girl arriving by an old portal to the council’s university that hadn’t been used since the time the Oracle first came here. Which now that I’ve been through the portal myself I knew was her choice to come, not stolen away like my dad claimed. My mother chose to be here, and according to the dick head that ushered me through the barrier around this place she wasn’t about to give someone like me an audience until I proved myself.
Problem… if I didn’t prove myself here seeing her would be the least of my worries. I’d be disposed of, because there was no one the council trusted willing to claim responsibility for me if my magic wrecked havoc on the mortal realm. What magic did I have that could cause problems for anyone other than myself, I didn’t know.
All of this led me to where I was now, needing to prove myself to meet my mother before the council realized the person they’d been hunting was right next to them, shaking their hand and saying, ‘Hello, teach me all of your magical ways.’