Chapter 19

Seraphine’s Point of View

I closed my eyes, then I breathed deeply. I repeated it several times and only when I deemed myself calm enough, did I open my eyes.

“Are you all done arguing about the same thing?” I asked in a bored tone, successfully gaining their attention. “Or you still haven’t finalised what to do tomorrow?”

A week into the class showed us that leisure time wasn’t easy to have. We still haven’t gone to the Local Emporium that Luster had told us on the first day because we spent a lot of time in the library. It was nearly sunset when we left the school, no more time to visit the Emporium.

But the next day, the teachers started shoving us loads of homework. So instead of visiting the shops, we stayed over in the library to finish our homework. It worked well because the five of us stayed productive— even amidst the endless bickering between Maximus, Cassius and Leilani. Luster occasionally joined when he wanted to convey his opinion, but most of the time, I was lef