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where is
she?” Alpha Flagstone asked doubtfully.
    “I know a vampire when I see one. I can… sense them.”
    “Devon can also control the minds of animals!” Darwin
added helpfully.
    This was getting way out of control fast. “I didn’t
do anything to the vampire, I’m…” I’m not a wizard. “She just
disappeared.”
    The professor looked even more suspicious at my
words. I could see the wolf in him trying to communicate, trying to tell him
something wasn’t right about me, but the man was too strong to lose control of
his wolf like that.
    “She had on a strong perfume, but I could tell she
was a bloodsucker when I shifted,” one of the wolf shifters said.
    Standing at six-four, about two hundred forty pounds,
with short, medium brown hair and steel-gray eyes, he was a cowboy if I ever
saw one. My instincts screamed that he was a hunter, but it wasn’t me he was
threatening.
    He glared at Alpha Flagstone. “Aren’t you supposed to
be keeping that kind of scum out of here?” he asked with a southern accent.
    The older wolf narrowed his eyes. “You will watch
your tone, pup. Keep challenging me and I will send you back to your mother in
a shoe box.”
    “Why do you get to be the alpha if you need your
students to fight vampires for you?”
    “I have been playing this game of life a lot longer
than you have.” The other two wolves, not nearly as large as their friend,
glanced nervously between Alpha Flagstone and his challenger for a moment.
Deciding they were safer betting on the older wolf, they both went to
Flagstone’s side.
    Although the professor was actually a fair amount
smaller in muscle mass than his challenger, he struck me as much more
dangerous. He was the same height as the younger man, and since I hadn’t seen
the professor shift, I couldn’t be sure how they compared in wolf form. There
was absolutely no fear in him and his posture was familiar in a primal way; he
was ready at any instant to attack.
    Still snarling, the younger wolf finally lowered his
eyes in submission.
    “I will talk to you later about the vampire, Sanders.
Get to class,” Flagstone said.
    I nodded and turned. Everyone reluctantly moved on,
but they were whispering to each other. Even though I was confused as to what
actually happened, I knew rumors could make my job a nightmare. I sighed and
headed to class.
    Magic in Everyday Life took place in a medium
sized room with seats that were set up in rows like in a lecture hall. The
walls were deep, dark blue, sponge-painted stone. The ceiling was vaulted with
a skylight. Unfortunately, the person who built the classroom above us was an
idiot.
    When I took the closest seat to the door, which was
becoming my M.O., Darwin sat next to me. I took the time to notice that he was
wearing another hoodie. “Am I in the wrong class?” I asked him, about to pull
out my map.
    “No, mate, this class is for wizards and fae. I don’t
know why I’m here, though. I can’t do any decent magic.”
    “What does it take to be considered decent magic?
What can you do?”
    He blushed and turned to face the front. “I’ll show
you later.”
    Okay, that’s not weird or anything .
    After a moment, he turned back and pointed at me with
a pencil. “But, I will tell you…” He trailed off as he noticed the pencil in
his hand. “Oh, crap. This ain’t my pencil.”
    I reached for the pencil, but he dropped it and
flinched as far away as his seat would let him. I froze, shocked, because I
knew the look of fear on his face. His eyes were clinched closed and his hands
were tucked against his chest.
    I studied his hands, but I couldn’t see his wrists
beneath his cuffs. “Who hurt you?” I asked. I was surprised by the anger in my
voice. I had seen abused children act this way when they thought they did
something wrong and were about to get hit for it. Darwin wasn’t a child, but he
had obviously not been properly socialized. There was something very innocent
about him, like with a