Shape Shifting 201
By Viola Grace
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Imara made it through her first term without too many issues, but now that she is in the second term, a magic-draining fiend is stalking the students, and her familiar is bored with guiding her through the early stages of magic. He has taken to giving her misinformation to see if she can use her own judgments. It is a challenge she doesn’t really need.
XIA agents are taking courses at the college, and one of them ends up next to Imara during her ethics course. A few conversations lead to a lunch date, and now, she must determine if a social life is worth more than her scholastic one.
Mr. E just likes going on lunch dates. The servers swoon over his cute fuzziness. He is no help at all.
Viola Grace
Viola Grace (aka Zenina Masters) is a Canadian sci-fi/paranormal romance writer with ambitions to keep writing for the rest of her life. She specializes in short stories because the thrill of discovery, of all those firsts, is what keeps her writing.An artist who enjoys a story that catches you up, whirls you around and sets you down with a smile on your face is all she endeavours to be. She prefers to leave the drama to those who are better suited to it, she always goes for the cheap laugh.
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Shape Shifting 201 - Viola Grace
A would-be magus with studying on her mind must deal with a possible suitor and her feisty hellkitten.
Imara made it through her first term without too many issues, but now that she is in the second term, a magic-draining fiend is stalking the students, and her familiar is bored with guiding her through the early stages of magic. He has taken to giving her misinformation to see if she can use her own judgments. It is a challenge she doesn’t really need.
XIA agents are taking courses at the college, and one of them ends up next to Imara during her ethics course. A few conversations lead to a lunch date, and now, she must determine if a social life is worth more than her scholastic one.
Mr. E just likes going on lunch dates. The servers swoon over his cute fuzziness. He is no help at all.
The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.
Shape Shifting 201
Copyright © 2017 by Viola Grace
ISBN: 978-1-987969-27-6
©Cover art by Angela Waters
All rights reserved. With the exception of review, the reproduction or utilization of this work in whole or in part in any form by electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, is forbidden without the express permission of the publisher.
Published by Viola Grace
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Shape Shifting 201
Hellkitten Chronicles Book Two
By
Viola Grace
Chapter One
The persistent tapping on her nose and lips brought Imara out of a sound sleep. She spluttered. What?
You are going to be late for your first day of winter term. You have forty-five minutes to shower, get dressed, eat, and get across the campus. The close-range kitten face was cross-eyed as he smacked her face with his tiny paw again.
Damnit.
Exactly. Forty-four. The clock is ticking, and you don’t know time magic yet. Get rolling.
Imara got up and dumped Mr. E to the floor, stumbling past him to her bathroom. He might be six inches tall, but he was right. She needed to get moving.
Brushing her teeth in the shower caused a soap and toothpaste confusion. It was enough of an issue to wake her up completely, and she left her room with a wet head and a disgruntled kitten five minutes later. He was not a fan of her lack of enthusiasm for a hairdryer.
Reegar had a travel mug of coffee waiting for her. He handed it to her with a jaunty bow. Your pastry is in the box on the counter.
Thanks. Immit Hall would have to be on the other end of the freaking campus.
You will make it. I have seen you run to beat Bara to the remote control. She made your coffee.
Imara wanted to snark at him, but the blueberry pastry was taking up her mouth. She grabbed a second, checked her bag and that she was wearing shoes, and had actually gotten dressed. Some nightmares didn’t need to be dragged into reality.
She jammed the second pastry between her jaws, checked for Mr. E, and charged out the door with her coffee cup in her hand.
The first course of the winter term was Shape Shifting 201. It was just the thing to bring misery to a Monday morning.
She jogged and chewed her way through the campus, the mild weather was the gift of the weather mages. It was always temperate if on the cool side.
The coffee was screamingly hot, and the sudden pulse in her lips confirmed that pain was as good as caffeine to wake her up.
Imara finally made it to Immit Hall with three minutes to spare. She found the lecture hall and sat at one of the four available tables. She smiled and nodded as Mesook Mnara waved at her. They had shared the financial-planning class last term, and Mesook had mentioned her desire to take this course.
Imara pulled out her notebook and pencil. She surmised that Mesook had made it off the waiting list.
She took a final slurp from her thermal mug, sealed it, and tucked it into a side pocket of her bag. When she straightened, the instructor wandered in.
Mr. E whispered in her mind. Well spotted. That isn’t a normal lynx.
The cat paced back and forth, getting closer to the tables and the very still students.
The mage snarled and swiped at the students, one by one. Imara looked at the incoming paw and extended her own hand to meet it.
At the moment of impact, the lynx changed into a man wearing loose, dark, cotton clothing and a smile. Well done, Ms. Mirrin. I was told to watch out for you.
By whom?
The instructor chuckled. I will leave you guessing on that matter.
He turned and walked in front of the class of seven. Hello, I am Magus Korian Yassur. You may call me Instructor Korian.
He faced them and nodded to Imara. So, what did you see that they didn’t?
Your form was too large, you made eye contact with more than one of us, there were no postures or behaviours visible that would have indicated you were threatened or hunting. Simply put, you were not acting like a cat.
With every phrase, his eyebrows raised a little higher. Well, that is encouraging. Are the rest of you aware of what she just pointed out?
Mesook raised her hand.
Yes?
She pointed out that the shape isn’t enough. If you want to be convincing, you have to know the animal you want to become.
Korian nodded. Correct. This course is partially about the magic you will need to know but mostly about how to research what you need to be convincing.
He gestured, and the lights dimmed. Let’s see what happens when folks get it wrong. If you cannot stand thinking about the errors, this course may not be for you.
Imara watched as an image was projected on the walls behind the instructor.
The picture of the twisted creature lying on the ground was difficult to make out until she located the fingers and worked her way back to the arms. It was a combination of dog, cat and a bit of fish, overlaid on a human structure.
This was a student two years ago, who had not decided on the beast she wanted to change into. In this very building, she twisted into this and passed away. Her lack of clarity cost her her life.
The light flared, and another image was displayed. A bureau was sitting quietly against the wall. Imara stared, and slowly, a wave of horror overtook her. The pattern in the wood was that of a face, screaming in agony.
This student chose this form as a joke, but as it was inert, he was found ten days after his transformation. He was in the main hall of his dorm, and no one noticed him.
Imara winced.
Here is a student who wanted to play with size. He was eaten by his roommate’s familiar.
A dead rat was on the floor with blood smears around it.
Another who wanted to take the form of a large animal but chose the wrong location for transformation.
An elephant trunk flopped out of what seemed to