Chapter 17 Where The Amulet Rests

• Three weeks later, I stood in Professor Hale's old study, now cleared out and reassigned, boxes of her belongings already shipped off to wherever the council had decided she'd serve out her sentence.
• "Strange, isn't it?" Kian said, leaning against the doorframe with a stack of borrowed healing texts under one arm. "Feels like it happened to someone else already."
• "Sometimes it does." I ran my fingers along the empty shelf where her journals used to sit. "The council ruled yesterday. She'll serve five years under pack supervision, stripped of her teaching position permanently."