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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I t was clear Dean Langmore didn’t believe me, as he stared back at me with skepticism shimmering in his eyes. Not that I could blame him, really. Playing ignorant wasn’t something I enjoyed, but for the sake of securing my place in Bramwell’s lab, I was willing to risk scrutiny.

“So … let me get this straight,” he said, flattening his hands against his paper-cluttered desk. “You were attacked in Canterbury gardens by some masked man. A bird mask, is that correct?”

“Yessir. Like a plague mask.” If it was true that I’d only hallucinated the mask, I didn’t see any harm in mentioning it, if for no other reason than to derail whatever theories they’d constructed around Bramwell.

“Right. And Spencer was where?”