Nocticadia

Nocticadia

Author: Keri Lake Listening Length: 18h 36m

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 53

T he conversation with Briceson consumed my head as I exited the Dragon’s Lair, having eaten nothing more than a piece of avocado toast and a latte that I’d charged to Bramwell’s card.

I spent half the night thinking about the black stones Briceson had mentioned in the birds, and the skull I’d seen in the photograph, trying to establish a connection between them.

Black to-go cup in hand, I made my way to Bramwell’s lecture, if he bothered to lecture today, and felt the pressure of an oncoming storm tickling the back of my neck.

Vibrant red, oranges, and yellows colored the trees, as the full breadth of autumn had settled over the campus, and gray clouds hung heavy and thick in a sky that promised rain.