Enchanted High Book I

June glanced at James. He concentrated on the floor.

‘What is it that you saw, exactly?’ Charlie urged.

June exhaled; she needed to gather enough breath if she was going to speak again. ‘I saw people,’ she admitted. ’People that I felt I know.′ She looked at Charlie questioningly. She didn’t even know the meaning of what she had just blurted. But the sensation was so strong. It was like an old memory that blobbed back up to the surface.

Maybe it wasn’t her memory. Maybe it was Linasia’s.

‘I don’t know what to tell you,’ said Charlie. ’But if you get anymore visions like these, you tell me straight away,′ he said. ‘Do you understand?’

June nodded.

‘And what is it you wanted to tell me?’ Charlie looked at James.

‘Umm,’ James began. ‘I –this may sound weird ...’

‘Try me.’

’Dreams. I’ve been having dreams throughout the year ... I saw me running from a dragon, then I fell into a pit, and then I was flying the dragon and someone was striking red lightning at me and I fell into the ocean. I drowned.′

‘Yes?’

‘But the dreams weren’t together, they were at different times.’

Charlie nodded.

‘And when we were at the volcano ... it all came true.’ James concluded unceremoniously.

Charlie’s eyebrow’s disappeared into his hair. ‘You’ve inherited a new ability. A new power.’

James frowned. ‘How?’

‘I don’t know, maybe one of your parents could tell the future or they had a second sight?’

‘No, not really ... my mum is a human and my dad has strength. That’s about it.’

‘I see,’ Charlie said. ‘But this is a powerful talent, James, be grateful. Is there anything else?’

‘I have one question,’ said June. ‘The blue light in the sky, the day the tree vanished – I mean relocated, why was it there?’

‘That,’ said Charlie, ‘was the tree breaking the school’s protective dome. Any spell that might have been used to penetrate through the dome will cause that.’

‘Why do we have a protective dome?’

Charlie’s eyes became misty and he seemed to be lost in his own world for seconds. Then, ’It’s there to protect the students of course. Now, anything else?′ He asked dismissively.

‘No,’ June and James replied together.

‘Off you go then,’ Charlie said. He ushered them out of the door.

It’s about the growling in the attic. I’ll tell you later. I have to go now.

--THUG.