Avis Blackthorn: Is Not an Evil Wizard! Read Online Free PDF

same, we’re all Magic!” he shouted and
this pea flew across the table and hit Ellen on her glasses, it
left a nasty smudge on the front and she just kind of looked at
it.
    “Sorry,” said Hunter.
    “It’s fine,” she said wiping them with her
sleeve. “Just eat them with your mouth closed next time.”
    Hunter did.
    I had more pressing issues however. I
enquired gently of the people round the table, as if I was just
making idle chit chat, if they had all brought their Ever-changing
robes and channellers. Every single one of them said that of course
they had. I felt a stone drop in my chest. What if the school
chucked me out because I didn’t come with the right stuff?
    After I finished my jam tart and custard the
table fell into a getting to know each other chat. Where are you
from? What’s your name again? Are you an Outsider or a born Wizard?
Predictions about what we would be doing at school. All that
kind of stuff.
    The girl called Jess started speaking to me.
“So Avis, you have an older brother here?” I nodded. “So you, out
of all of us, must know what will be happening over the coming
weeks?”
    They all looked at me. “No, well, my brother
hasn’t told me anything, he wouldn’t, we don’t get on. He’s evil,
like my family…”
    “I’ve heard about you Blackthorns …”
said Dawn, through a mouthful of cake. “You all work for Malakai .”
    I didn’t like Dawn’s tone. “No. I don’t. My
family does.”
    “Same thing,” She said.
    “No, it’s about as similar as a Dragon and a
gecko.”
    “They’re related, both reptiles.” She said,
crumbs falling everywhere. Her and Hunter really were made for each
other.
    “You know what I mean.” I could tell me and
this Dawn were going to have a problem with each other.
    “Who’s Malakai?” said Robin.
    Dawn got there before I did. “Oh, well you
wouldn’t know would you being an Outsider. He’s the most evil man
in all the Seven Magical Kingdoms, a Sorcerer, he’s killed more
Wizards than I’ve had hot dinners…” I reframed from saying out loud
the insult I had in mind. “And he rules with black Magic and evil
dark powers. Some say his evil Magic turned him into this horned
beast with blackened skeletal hands.”
    “Nothing wrong with that,” said Hunter.
    “No! But charred, long clawed hands.”
    Most people round the table shuddered at her
waffle. She wasn’t wrong. He was all of those things and more. But
it’s how she said it that grinded on me.
    Graham, Ellen, Hunter and Robin were all
Outsiders, like you, and the rest were from the surrounding seven
Magical Kingdoms. Jake and Grettle were from Golandria, English was
there second language, they were quite good at it but definitely
needed work. They kept getting ‘ hello ’ mixed up with ‘ how
are you ’.
    Mind you, I would never be able to speak
Golandrian.
    Soon after that and quite late into the
evening the older years took themselves off to their rooms. Then
one by one, each new years’ table was escorted by a Magisteers to
our rooms. Apparently the dorms were all over the school. Ours was
out of the Chamber, back into the hall, up the large staircase,
then along about fifty hallways, left, right, left, right, left
again, I would never remember this! Then along a dark third floor
hallway complete with turquoise carpets, oak panelled walls, large
hanging chandeliers and strange ghoulish pictures, and finally we
were at the entrance to the Condor boys dorm room.
    The Magisteer leading us wore all grey and
was stooped with no expression whatsoever. He didn't even introduce
himself, or even say a word for the entire walk through the castle.
He unlocked the thick oak door and pushed. We all traipsed in and
looked around. So this was our room for the next year. Seven beds
lay spaced around a large open room. It had a three leather sofas
facing a grand fireplace, the same turquoise carpet as the
hallways, and two tall mullioned windows looking out across the
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