Nocticadia

Nocticadia

Author: Keri Lake Listening Length: 18h 36m
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Mortui vivos docent. The dead teach the living. After watching my mother succumb to a mysterious illness, I promised myself two things. I’d find the cure for what ravaged her. And leave the godforsaken city where she abandoned me. Four years later, I receive an acceptance letter from Dracadia University, one of the ol...

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CHAPTER 4

P rofessor Wilkins sat across from me, his eyes stern and unreadable, as always.

Unlike those of my other professors, his office boasted a rich quality, with burgundy leather chairs, a thick cherry-wood desk with matching credenza, natural light lamps, and bookshelves behind him.

The room matched the guy’s personality, as he was probably the only professor I knew at Covington Community College who wore a bowtie every day and talked like something out of an old Cary Grant movie.

After a moment of straightening a few scattered papers on his desk, he entwined his fingers and looked up at me. “Miss Vespertine … about the paper you wrote …”