INTEGRATION (Bonfire Academy Book Two) (Bonfire Chronicles) Read Online Free PDF

specimen, we have two who need this kind of facility. So suck it up and concentrate on the incredible possibilities this offers.” She turned and stomped toward the smaller dome. “Come over here.”
    I followed, swallowing down my fury, trying to concentrate on the architecture of the place. It was amazing, but so what? I wondered if being Professor Bern’s apprentice was really worth the aggro of having Mason back in my life. Not only was he back in my life, he was also back in Faustine’s.
    Even though I wasn’t her mentor anymore, I felt strangely protective toward Faustine. She probably didn’t even need me; her powers would protect her. Plus she had Ryker, her guardian Wanderer. But I felt that I needed to be there for her anyway.
    What was Mason playing at? I had no doubt in my mind that he was behind his dad’s offer. But why? Why did he want to come back to Bonfire Academy?
    Professor Bern stopped abruptly and bent over in front of me, nearly causing me to trip over her. She fiddled with something on the floor, which was made out of slabs of shiny, reflective material. I peeked over her right shoulder, trying to see what she was doing.
    The floor slab in front of her suddenly lit up into a keypad. Professor Bern tapped in a code, and the slabs behind the keypad slid under the glass dome, revealing a metal staircase.
    “Follow me,” Professor Bern muttered impatiently, stepping onto the first stair and making her way down.
    I tread carefully on each step. My feet were longer than the width of the steps, so I walked down diagonally, concentrating on keeping my balance. Fourteen steps later, I breathed a sigh of relief when I placed my foot on the floor. The area made me feel claustrophobic. An armchair in the middle of the floor was the only furniture.
    Professor Bern sat down in it. “You’ll be next, Cordelia, when the chair returns.”
    Before I could ask her what she meant, the ceiling slid open and the chair rose, disappearing through the opening. The ceiling closed for a few seconds, then reopened to let the empty chair slide back down again.
    I walked over and slumped down in it. The chair wasn’t attached to anything; it seemed to levitate by itself. Once I was through the opening, I waited for the chair to stop moving, and then I got up and walked over to where Professor Bern sat on a glass stool. We were inside the containment chamber.
    “Nice,” I said, hoping to break the silence.
    “And hopefully functional,” she added. “We’ve added containment spells, so it should be pretty impenetrable.”
    “Hmm.” Pfft! Not to Wanderers, but she didn’t know that Faustine’s case involved Ryker whisking her away from the chamber. No containment chamber could prevent that, no matter how state-of-the-art fancy. And if Mason were a hybrid Wanderer, the chamber wouldn’t hold him, either. In fact, it would be a total waste of his dad’s money. I wondered if his dad knew that but had gone ahead anyway just to get Mason admitted back into the Academy.
    “’Hmm? What do you mean? You don’t agree?” She tilted her head.
    “No, it’s not that,” I replied hastily. “I just meant that we haven’t had much luck before, with the old chamber. What’s so different about this one, apart from the fact that it’s obviously impressive-looking?”
    “The engineers tell me that the glass is strong enough to withstand an earthquake. It’s both bulletproof and spellproof. I tried casting a spell from outside the chamber, but was unable to,” she declared triumphantly.
    The fact that Professor Bern, one of the most powerful witches in the world, couldn’t cast a spell through the glass was pretty remarkable.
    She smiled. “Impressed, eh?”
    “Yes, I guess I am,” I said. “What about Wanderers? What if Mason is a hybrid?”
    “Yes, I have considered that, regarding both Mason and Faustine. I did rule out that possibility for Faustine, since she has no Wanderer history in her family. Mason is a