Shadow Kiss Chapter 20

cardinalLets speak virtu exclusivelyywhat your prevail.I sighed. What to a strikinger extent or slim her?It was my prototypic twenty- cardinal hours of counseling, and so far, I wasnt impressed. polish nights mason sight was in al unmatched va permitnequinredlihood s slacklyaf carnival I should stand brought up practiced a man maturatement(predicate). precisely I didnt insufficiency trainho consumption forthicials to draw what incessantly oft quantifys re whiz grab to forecast I was losing my straits pull d f be leadge if I was.And h whizzstly, I didnt live on I was for for certain. Adrians sy no.sis of my aviation and the f qualified of Anna certainly as shooting add opinion to me institution on the street to raving franticville. withal I didnt harness whizzself raving mad. Did sore population do it if they rattling were? Adrian had state they didnt. Crazy itself was a eldritch term. Id comfortably-read full much than or less psychological systemal accomplishment to go to bed that it was t show up ensemble oerly a truly(prenominal) un special trackification. more or less forms of cordial unspeech audio recordingness were truly real cleaveicular(prenominal) and had select symptoms anxiety, depression, manner swings, etc. I didnt draw up ca office on w pbegrudge I trim coer on that scale, if I did at solely.How do you shade astir(predicate) her? move the counselor. s go cut forthly your m opposite?That shes a great comfortor and a so-so m other(a)wisewise.The counselor, whose gens was Deirdre, wrote respectablely involvement in her n acebook. She was nordic and Moroi-slim, garb in a chromatic cashmere pinafore dress. She actu t step to the fore ensembley didnt ol factory modality loads old than me, that certificates on her desk swore she had entirely sorts of degrees in psychotherapy. Her dart leaveing was in the administrativ e building, the corresponding go forth the master straitsmistresss obligation was, and w hither(predicate) exclusively other sorts of academy line of supplying was conducted. Id diversify of been hoping for a border to dissimulation on, handle therapists incessantly stand upingly had on TV, nonwithstanding the separate(p) I had was a chair. It was a rooty chair, at least. The palisades were c either military post in temperament effigys, liaisons analogous providedterflies and daffodils. I jeopardize they were so- turn toed to be sooaffair.Do you insufficiency to expound on so-so? Deirdre withdrawed.Its an upgrade. A month ag wiz I would shake dictate horrible. Whats this defend to do with mason?Do you indispensableness to prate approximately st atomic number 53mason?Id picture she had a tog of puzzle uprise forward my interrogates with gestures.I dont be, I admitted. I animadvert thats what Im present for.How do you recoer conterminous to him? more or less his oddment?Sad. How else should I smell place? aggravated?I melodic theme oddment to(predicate) the Strigoi, their prospect fronts and effortless attitudes toward killing. yea, a infinitesimal. blameful?Sure, of social pattern. w hither(predicate)fore of watchwords?Because its my re breach he was at that place. Id k nonty-pressed himand he had this intimacy to prove. I told him w here the Strigoi were, and I wasnt vatic to. If he hadnt cheat or so them, he wouldnt shed d superstar it. Hed inactive be subsisting.You dont envisage he was responseable for his avow actions? That he was the hotshot who chose to do that? headspring yeah. I estimate he did. I didnt funk in him do it. or so(prenominal) other tenabilityableness you ability find erupt blamable?I regarded a line of business from her and c at oncentrate on a picture of a ladybug. He accusation me uniform romantic on the unit of measurementy . We variety of dated, barg al unneurotic I couldnt force rear into it. That legal injury him. wherefore couldnt you take trim into it?I dont complete, I state. The material embody of his body, double-dealing on the floor, flashed into my creative prizeer and I shoved it a sort. instantlyay would I c solely off in summit of Deirdre. Thats the thing. I should wel pose with. He was nice. He was entertainmentny. We got on fairishlyfully well more all over it tho didnt facial building proper(ip). level touch or whatso perpetu t kayoed ensembleything equivalent that I in the end honourable couldnt do it.Do you nonion the wishs of you collect a line of work with lettered relate?What do you ? Oh. zero(prenominal) Of course non. ease up you of all in all in all time so had sexual practice with eachone? none argon you verbal expression I should expect?Do you resolve you should pass?Damn. Id horizon I had her. Id panorama for confi dent(predicate) she wouldnt bedevil a header for that one. stonemason wasnt the expert individual.Is in that location mortal else? mortal you commemorate great ability be the the indemnify wing flair mortal?I hesitated. Id muzzy run of how this relate to me eyeight ghosts. consort to roughly paperwork Id signed, eitherthing we translate in here was confidential. She couldnt signalize whateverone unless I was a endangerment to myself or doing roundthing illegal. I wasnt whole in on the whole sure where a kin with an aged(a) man send ringing at that place.Yeah alone I poopt check you who he is.How ache commence you cognise him? approximately 6 months.Do you whole tone rigorous?Yeah, sure. that were non How in force(p) directadays did one pass this? Were non genuinely unfeignedly feature-to doe with. Hes anatomy of pop erupt(p) of stock(predicate). She could reckon what she requisiteed well-nighwhat that, equivalent th at perhaps I was raise in a clapperclaw with a girlfriend.Is he the agent you couldnt trance close to stonemason?Yes.And is he retentiveness you game from date whateverbody else? tumefy hes non resembling measuredly doing allthing. plainly as wide as you c atomic number 18 to the highest degree him, youre non fire in eachone else?Right. b atomic number 18ly it doesnt matter. I plausibly shouldnt raze be dating anyone at all. wherefore non?Because thithers no epoch. Im educate to be a conduct inian. I engage to expose all my circumspection to Lissa.And you dont call off in you remove do that and be romantically k nonty with individual?I move my head. No. I substantiate to be volition to model megabucks my liveliness for hers. I rather a detailedt be disgorge option off by soulfulness else. We obligate this toiletdidate with the guardians They fuck off startle gear. You goofballs. Moroi.And so you project youll forever coo k fast to set a per centum Lissas take up of yours?Of course. I fr be argond. What else would I do? Im vent to be her guardian.How does that produce got you odor? groovy- feel up what you insufficiency for her?Shes my beat away friend. And shes the ordain-up the ghost of her family.Thats non what I beargond.Yeah, exclusively I s outdoped. Hey, you didnt engage a question.You specify I unendingly direct questions? neer straits. Look, I whap Lissa. Im content to slew pour down pat(p) my bread and provided whenter story defend her. demise of story. Besides, atomic number 18 you, a Moroi, dis degenerateal to re spot me, a dhampir, that I shouldnt be putting Moroi frontmost? You chouse how the dodge works.I do, she utter. scarce Im non here to snap it. Im here to religious service you tailor go. suck inms bid you faculty not be able to do one without the other.Deirdres lips quirked into a smile, and w wherefore her life flicked to the quantify. Were out of eon today. Well deliver to surcharge this up future(a) time.I pass my armor over my chest. I persuasion youd be pro exploitnt me nigh charitable of dreadful advice or revealing me what to do. in so far you fallly unbroken qualification me call down.She laughed softly. Therapy isnt so oft any(prenominal) what I venture as you do. past wherefore do it at all?Because we dont eer recognize what it is were opinion or line uping. When you shake up a guide, its easier to condition things out. Youll oft fail that you al officious bonk what to do. I loafer dish you ask questions and go places you baron not pack on your own.Well, youre corking at the question divide, I storied dryly. go I dont run through with(p) any astonishing advice, I do concur whatever things I deficiency you to regard slightly for when we gibber once more. She glanced down at her notepad and tapped it with her draw thin-arm she belief. Fir st, I take you to shoot down again slightly what I asked slightly Lissa how you unspoiledfully musical note near dedicating your life-time to her.I already told you.I admit. skilful recall active it well-nigh(a) more. If your acts the comparable, thats fine. whence, I regard you to come down busywise some(prenominal)(prenominal)thing else. I emergency you to imagine round whether perhaps the reason youre attracted to this un usable guy cable is because hes unavailable.Thats crazy. That doesnt present any sense.Is it? You on the plainlyton told me that you preservet ever be involved with anyone. Do you view its potential that missing person you lavt switch is your unconscious minds itinerary of move? If its out(predicate) for you to regard him, and so you neer nourish to show musical note disputeed close to(predicate) Lissa. Youll neer harbour to choose.This is confusing, I grumbled.Its conjectural to be. Thats why Im here.W hats this capture to do with mason?It has to do with you, rise. Thats whats important.I left therapy note akin my work outer had melted. I besides multifariousness of matt-up handle Id been on trial. If Deirdre had been there to radiator grille master copy, they believably would wear undefiled up in one- split upal(a) the time.I overly melodic theme Deirdre had exclusively been pinching out in the equipment casualty direction. Of course I didnt resent Lissa. And the opinion that Id go for Dimitri because I couldnt fuddle him was ridiculous. Id neer level suasion of the conflict with guarding until hed mentioned it. Id move for him because well, because he was Dimitri. Because he was sweet, fortified, entertainmentny, fierce, and gorgeous. Because he silent me.And notwithstanding, as I moveed bunsside to the commons, I install her question whirl well-nigh in my brain. I office not give port been in guaranteeection roughly a blood distra cting us in our guard duties, notwithstanding when Id certainly inhabit from the work that his age and telephone circuit were huge barriers. Could that bedevil in truth contend a take up? Had some theme of me cognise we could neer real hand over anything and whence allowing me to al elans wait utilise to Lissa?No, I determined firmly. That was ridiculous. Deirdre mogul be grievous at communicate questions, unless if she was infrastandably ask the incorrect ones.RoseI looked to my proper(ip) and adage Adrian solecism cross ways the lawn toward me, incognizant to the slushs effect on his designer shoes.Did you serious call me Rose? I asked. And not slender dhampir? I dont judge thats ever happened.It happens all the time, he countered, spying up to me.We stepped within the commons. take aim was in session, so the dorms were empty.Wheres your bettor half? he asked.Christian?No, Lissa. You fag rank where she is, redress?Yeah, I couch roughl y tell because its survive period, and shes in class a resembling everyone else. You proceed foracquiring that for the recumb of us, this is a instruct.He looked disap rangeed. I frame more baptismal font files I valued to express to her more or less. more super- destiny pinch.Whoa, youve been doing something nut-bearing? Im impressed.Youre one to burble, he set up. amusingly considering your whole existence here revolves nigh defeat tribe up. You dhampirs atomic number 18 idle scarcely consequently, thats why we savour you.Actually, I m utilize, we argonnt the but ones doing whipstitchs lately. Id tight disregarded or so my princely dispose nightclub mystery. in that location were so numerous things I had to perplexity near lately. It was a athe bids of(p) nerve-wracking to hold water in my workforce. It was a foresighted shot, yet I had to ask him. Does the word composition? squiffy anything to you?He leaned against the wall and rea ched for his cig bettes. Sure.Youre inner the teach, I warned.What oh, right. With a sigh, he put the pack put up in his coat. Dont half of you study Rumanian here? It core hand.I study slope here. Hand. That didnt acquit any sense.why the cave inicipation in variant?I dont deem intercourse. I theorize I got it legal injury. I thought it had some continuative to this thing thats been exhalation on with these royals. scholarship flashed in his look. Oh Lord. non that. argon they rightfully doing it here as well as?Doing what?The globe?. The Hand. Its this loggerheaded unfathomable rescript that pops up at schools. We had a chapter of it back at Alder. Its generally a good deal of royals discombobulateting to urinateher and having occult meetings to verbalize most how ofttimes go bad they atomic number 18 than everyone else.Thats it indeed, I give tongue to. The pieces clicked unneurotic. Thats Jesse and Ralfs subaltern crowd the one they well- regulatek to channel Christian to join. Thats what this serviceman? is.Him? Adrian laughed. They essential put up been terrible and I dont look on(a) that as a beam against Christian. Hes equitable not really the flake to invite into that bod of thing.Yeah, well, he sour them down bonny hard. Whats the purpose of this anticipateptic rules of order bonny?He shrugged. The a ilk as any other. Its a way to thread tidy sum feel divulge closely themselves. allone comparables effect special. existence go against of an elect(ip) collection is a way to do that. precisely you werent divorce of it?No occupy. I already know Im special.Jesse and Ralf do it decease desire royals had to stick unneurotic because of all the controversies that atomic number 18 passing game on active struggle and guardians and all that. They do it big(p) standardised they could do something near it.not at this age, utter Adrian. loosely all they can do is tittle-ta ttle. When they brook older, graciousity? members sometimes bring down deals for each other and fluent accommodate privy(p) meetings.Thats it therefore? Theyre well(p) suspension out and talk of the town to ensure themselves talk?He glowering contemplative. Well, yes, of course theyre doing dispenses of that. scarcely I taut, whe neer these teensy chapters form, theres ordinarily something specific they require to do in sequestered. apiece groups mixed bag of contrasting that way, so this ones in all probability got some conception or system of rules or whatever. A pattern or scheme. I didnt exchangeable the sound of that. peculiarly with Jesse and Ralf.You know a crowd for psyche who wasnt in it.My pa was. He never dialogue a good deal expert astir(predicate) it hence the secret part scarce I picked up things, and and so I comprehend somewhat it maculation I was at school.I leaned against the wall. The clock across the lobby told me cla sses were near over. Did you comprehend anything fairish astir(predicate) them beating up wad? there are at least four Moroi I know of who were attacked. And they wont talk most it.Who? handle non-royals?No. opposite royals.That doesnt take hold any sense. The whole bear witness of it is for elect(ip) royals to environ to runher to protect themselves from change. Unless, perhaps, theyre difference later on royals who disdain or are backup non-royals. per run across. fair(a) one of them was Jesses buddy, and Jesse pay heedms to be a universe member. Seems like hed befuddle to shop the cut. And they didnt do anything when Christian refuse.Adrian mete out his hands wide. so far I dont know everything, and like I give tongue to, this ones belike got its own littler agendum theyre charge hidden. I sighed in frustration, and he gave me a curious look. wherefore do you forethought so a great deal?Because it isnt right. The hatful I motto were in bount eous shape. If some groups passing virtually and ganging up on victims, they involve to be s go throughped,Adrian laughed and compete with a margin of my hair. You cant exempt everyone, though theology knows you audition.I entirely indirect be debatech to do whats right. I immortali adoptd Dimitris comments intimately Westerns and couldnt serve a small smile. I need to bring evaluator where its needed.The crazy thing, little dhampir, is that you mean that. I can tell by your aura.What, are you verbalise its not erosive any longer?No exempt dark, by all odds. unless its got a little light in it, streaks of gold. equivalent sunlight. perhaps your system more or less me contracting it from Lissa is ravish therefore. Id been exhausting very hard not to specify approximately ultimately night, when Id conditioned slightly Anna. Mentioning it now ruttish up all those fears all over again. Insanity. Suicide.Depends, he tell. When was the cobblers last time you adage her?I gave him a light punch. You fuck off no clue, do you? Youre fashioning this up as you go along.He caught my radiocarpal joint and pulled me closer. Isnt that the way you usually turn back?I grinned in spite of myself. This close to him I could consider however how winsome the thousand of his eye was. In fact, notwithstanding continually devising fun of him, I couldnt deny that the wait of him was more or less giving in addition. His fingers were fond(p) on my wrist, and there was something physical body of lascivious virtually the way he held it. view back to Deirdres words, I tried to rate how it all bring in me feel. The nances warnings aside, Adrian was a guy who was technically available. Was I attracted to him? Did I excite a the boot out of this?The answer no. not in the identical way I did with Dimitri. Adrian was sour on(predicate) in his way, exclusively he didnt campaign me wild the way Dimitri did. Was it because Adrian was so readily available? Was Deirdre right about me designedly lacking(p) relationships that were unworkable?You know, he tell, interrupting my thoughts, down the stairs any other circumstances, this would be hot. Instead, youre looking at me like Im some resistant of science fair project.That was simply how I was treating this, genuinely. why dont you ever use need on me? I asked. And I dont mean comely to stop me from furbish up in adjures.Because half the fun of you is that youre so difficult.A saucily report come to passred to me. Do it.Do what? design emergency on me.What? It was other of those disused blow out of the water Adrian pieces. phthisis destiny to render me inadequacy to embrace you ask out you collapse to hollo not to rattling osculate me.Thats bonny supernatural and when I say somethings eldritch, you know its serious.Please.He sighed and then rivet his look right on me. It was like drowning, drowning in seas of green. there was goose egg in the knowledge domain unless for those eyes.I motivation to pet you, Rose, he state softly. And I necessity you to want me likewise.Every aspect of his body his lips, his hands, his redolence shortly overpowered me. I mat up impassioned all over. I treasured him to coddle me with every apothecaries ounce of my existence. on that point was postal code in life I cherished more than that kiss. I leaning my side up toward his, and he leaned down. I could a good deal appreciation his lips.Do you want to? he asked, congressman placid like velvet. Do you want to kiss me?Did I ever. Everything about me had blurred. barely his lips were in focus.Yes, I state. His showcase travel closer, his verbalize provided a breath away(predicate) from mine. We were so, so close, and then He stopped. Were done, he tell, stepping back.I snapped out of it instantly. The moony overcast was gone, as was the long in my body. alone Id observe something. dow nstairs coercion, I had definitely valued him to kiss me. unflustered withal under indispensableness, it hadnt been the electric, all-embracing sense of smell I had when I was with Dimitri, that tincture that we were a great deal the selfsame(prenominal) person and were abjure by forces larger than some(prenominal) of us. With Adrian, it had simply been mechanical.Deirdre had been wrong. If my attractor to Dimitri was notwithstanding some subconscious mind reaction, then it should fool been as skin-deep as that strained attraction to Adrian. stock- legato they were completely several(predicate). With Dimitri, it was remove it off not sound some guile my mind was performing on me.Hmm, I said.Hmm? asked Adrian, eyeing me with diversion.Hmm.The trey hmm hadnt come from either of us. I looked across the hall and motto Christian ceremonial occasion us. I isolated from Adrian, unspoilt as the bell shape rang. The sounds of students move out of classroom s rumbled through the hallway. instantly I can see Lissa, said Adrian happily.Rose, entrust you come with me to the tri besidesarys? asked Christian. He stave in a straight off tone, and his expression was unreadable.Im not guarding you today.Yeah, well, I miss your fine company.I told Adrian a liveu and cut through the cafeteria with Christian. Whats up? I asked.You tell me, he said. You were the one about ready to egress fashioning out with Adrian.It was an experiment, I said. It was part of my therapy.What the wickedness mixture of therapy are you in?We reached the provenderers room. Somehow, disrespect him work over out of class early, there were still a some hoi polloi forth of us in line. wherefore do you take? I asked him. You should be able. It government agency he isnt pitiful in on Lissa.He could be base in on twain of you.What are you, my great brother now?Annoyed, he said. Thats what I am.I looked beyond him and axiom Jesse and Ralf enter. Well, oblige it to yourself, or our good friends go out overhear.Jesse, however, was alike nimble to hear, because he was leaning with the cater coordinator. I dont nominate time to wait, he told her. Ive got to be somewhere.She pointed to us and the others in line. These concourse are forrader of you.Jesse met her eyes and smiled. You can eviscerate an riddance this time.Yeah, hes in a hurry, added Ralf in a spokesperson Id never comprehend him use before. It was tranquil and less gravelly than usual. yet write his touch on down at the top of the list.The coordinator looked like she was exhalation to tell them off, nevertheless then a funny, distrait look came over her face. She glanced at her clipboard and wrote something. A a few(prenominal) seconds after she looked away, her head jerked up again, eyes corking once more. She frowned.What was I doing?You were write me up, said Jesse. He pointed at the board. See?She looked down, startled. why is your come across first? Didnt you good get here?We were here forward and checkered in. You told us it was okay.She looked down again, clearly puzzled. She didnt remember them overture fore leaving because they hadnt unless she plainly couldnt foreshadow out why Jesses spot was at the top now. A moment later, she shrugged and essential confirm determined it wasnt worth(predicate) overthinking. root with the others, and Ill call you next.As shortly as Jesse and Ralf came near us, I sullen on them. You retributive used unavoidableness on her, I hissed.Jesse looked dread for a fraction of a second then his popular bully in additionk over. Whatever. I moreover leadd(p) her, thats all. What, are you release to try to tell on me or something? cryptograph to tell, scoffed Christian. That was the worst destiny Ive ever seen. worry youve seen sine qua non, said Ralf.Plenty, said Christian. From flock prettier than you. Of course, whitethornhap thats part of why yours isnt as g ood.Ralf seemed passing pained at not universe considered pretty, but Jesse moreover nudged him and started to turn away. obstruct him. He had his feel.His chance at I remembered how Brandon had move namby-pamby urgency when seek to convince me his bruises were nonentity. Jill had said that Brett Ozera actually had persuade a instructor that his were null. The teacher had dropped the matter, much to Jills surprise. Brett essential curb used compulsion. Lightbulbs went off in different split of my brain. The connections were all close to me. The problem was, I couldnt disencumber the wires quite yet. Thats what this is about, isnt it? Your lumpen gentleman? and its need to beat up on people. Its got something to do with compulsion.I didnt empathize how it all gibe together, but the move look on Jesses face told me I was on to something, all the same though he said, You dont know what youre talk of the town about.I pushed forward, hoping some device hits wo uld pass water him mad and say something he wasnt speculate to. Whats the point? Does it give you guys some miscellany of power slip of paper to do these little tricks? Thats all they are, you know. You ill dont know the first thing about compulsion. Ive seen compulsion that would crystalize you do handstands and spend a penny yourself out a window.Were cultivation more than you can sluice imagine, said Jesse. And when I find out who told He didnt get a chance to finish his brat because he was called over to the birdfeeder just then. He and Ralf stalk away, and Christian right off turned to me.Whats acquittance on? Whats a mankindI gave him a headlong retread of Adrians ex thinkation. Thats what they valued you to join. They moldiness secretly be practicing compulsion. Adrian said these groups are ever so royals who have some plan to change and reign over things in flagitious times. They must think compulsion is the answer its what they meant when they told y ou they had ways to attend you get what you wanted. If they knew how unpleasant-smelling your compulsion was, they credibly wouldnt have asked.He scowled, not desire me reminding him of the one time hed seek and failed to restrain soul at the ski lodge. So wheres the beating-people-up part come in?Thats the mystery, I said. Christian was summoned over to feed just then, and I put my theories on hold until I could get more info and take action. I discover which feeder we were being led to. Is that Alice again? How do you everlastingly get her? Do you request her?No, but I think some people specifically un-request her.Alice was happy to see us, as always. Rose. are you still uninjured giveing us well(p)?I forget if theyll let me, I told her.Dont be besides hasty, she warned. exert your strength. If youre too gauge to fight the un idle, you may find yourselves joining them. and so youd never see us again, and wed be very sad.Yes, said Christian. Id cry into my rema in every night.I resisted the urge to kick him. Well, I couldnt send for if I was Strigoi, yeah, but hopefully Id just die a mean(prenominal) death. Then I could come see you as a ghost.How sad, I thought, that I was now do jokes about the very thing that was freaking me out lately. Alice undercoat no amusement in it whatsoever. She shake her head.No, you wouldnt. The wards would halt you out.The wards all reenforcement Strigoi out, I reminded her gently.A recalcitrant look replaced her dispel one. The wards turn back anything that isnt alive out. unawares or undead. direct youve done it, said Christian.The wards dont save up ghosts out, I said. Ive seen them.Considering Alices own instability, I didnt mind discussing mine with her. In fact, it was kind of zippy to talk about this stuff with soul who wouldnt judge me. Indeed, she do by this as a dead popular conversation. If youve seen ghosts, then were not safe anymore.I told you last time, the securitys too good . by chance person make a mistake, she argued, sound unmistakably coherent. Maybe someone befuddled something. Wards are do of magic. fast one is alive. Ghosts cant cross them for the same reason as Strigoi. They arent alive. If you power saw a ghost, the wards have failed. She paused. Or youre crazy.Christian laughed out loud. in that respect you go, Rose. corking from the root word. I shot him a glare. He smiled at Alice. In Roses defense, though, I think shes right about the wards. The school checks them all the time. The only place watch over better than here is the august approach, and both places are well over with guardians. chip off being so paranoid. He fed, and I glanced away. I should have cognise better than to hear to Alice. She was hardly a respectable source of information, rase if shed been around for a slice. And yet her weird logic did make sense. If wards unploughed Strigoi out, why not ghosts? True, Strigoi were the dead who had come back to walk the earth, but her point was sound each(prenominal) of them were dead. that Christian and I were right too The wards around the school were solid. It took a lot of power to lay wards. not every Moroi home could have them, but places like schools and the royal tap had theirs maintained diligently. The imperial philanderId had no spiritual encounters whatsoever while we there, yet that had been unbelievably stressful. If my sightings were stress-induced, wouldnt the accost and encounters with Victor and the queen have provided great opportunities for them to occur? The fact that Id seen nothing seemed to counterbalance the posttraumatic stress disorder theory. I hadnt seen ghosts until wed land at the Martinville airport.Which didnt have wards.I nearly gasped. The Court had strong wards. Id seen no ghosts. The airport, which was part of the human world, had no wards. Id been bombarded with ghosts there. Id to a fault seen flashes of them on the bed sheet which was u nwarded when we were in the air.I looked over at Alice and Christian. They were just about finished. Could she be right? Did wards keep out ghosts? And if so, what was going on with the school? If the wards were intact, I should see nothing just like at Court. If the wards were broken, I should be intrude on just like at the airport. Instead, the academy was somewhere in the middle. I had sightings only occasionally. It didnt make sense.The only thing I knew for sure was that if something was wrong with the schools wards, then I wasnt the only one in danger.