The worst part of having to stay at the Hunters’ Academy over the winter break is the pure boredom of it. With most of the other students away for the holidays, Kacie has little to do but read and watch movies…and practice all the hunting moves she learned in her first semester.
When her boredom sends her on a run into the nearby human town, she discovers something horrific preying on the local children. But of everyone still on campus, she’s the only one who can see it—and that means she’ll have to put those hunting skills into practice much sooner than she expected.
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The problem with spending the winter break at The Hunters’ Academy was that it was nothing like wizarding schools in books and movies. It didn’t have moving staircases or talking paintings or any of that stuff. We didn’t even have any ghosts—not that I knew of, anyway.
It looked like a wizarding school in a book. The buildings were really old and made of blocky stones. But the nearby village—the only place to go shopping or out for a meal or anything—didn’t have a cute little pub or shops catering to the magical kids nearby.
And worst of all, there was practically no one else there over the break. My hunting partner, Souji, and I were the only ones from our dorm. I didn’t know if Souji didn’t have a family to go home to or what. He couldn’t tell me, either, because he was a panther-shifter—or a werepanther, maybe; I didn’t know which term he preferred—who couldn’t shift. I’d seen him in his human form exactly once.
His exceptionally hot human form.
Though I tried not to think about that since he’d been injured at the time from trying to help save me.
Anyway, I couldn’t go home because the only way we had been able to get my parents to let me attend at all was to pretend that I was going to some really fancy overseas school. As far as they were concerned, it was way too expensive to fly me home for the holidays. I would go visit them over the summer—after my first year ended.
Assuming I survived that long.
Right now, though, I was more worried about dying of boredom than I was about failing to complete my first year’s studies and tests.
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Italian
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Translated by Alessandra Gazzella Furfaro
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Author review: Excellent work! |
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Portuguese
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Translated by Cláudio Porto Ribeiro
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Author review: Cláudio is always a joy to work with! The manuscripts come back in beautiful shape, on time, and with the best communication. I would love to work with him again! |
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Already translated.
Translated by Maria Julia Munoz Serrano
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Author review: As ever, Maria was a delight to work with! |
