"Tanya Huff - When The Student Is Ready" - читать интересную книгу автора (Huff Tanya)

He winced. "On second thought, you'll be safer here."

Four long strides took her to where she could bend and kiss her father's cheek, patting him on the
shoulder in what she hoped was a comforting manner. "Have a good trip. I'll be fine."

She had no close friends among the girls at school, no one she could call and say, "Do you feel like
something weird's about to happen?"

That left only one person. Isabel reached out for the phone. It slapped into her palm, and she actually
had her finger poised above the numbers before she managed to stop herself. No. Things would have to
get a whole lot worse before she called her mother.

Which was when she realized that the phone had been across the room on the bed.

Her fingers tightened around the red plastic. That was not normal. Hearing crows talk was not normal.
Normal people's clothes didn't hang themselves up. Normal people didn't have street people talk to them
across four lanes of traffic.

"Normal people," she told her reflection, "would be way more freaked about this, but I'm not. Does that
make me not normal people?"

Her reflection looked normal enough.

She saw him the third time through the window of Dr. Chow's chemistry class. He was shuffling up and
down on the sidewalk in front of the school. She was supposed to be studying ionization constants.

"Ms. Peterson?"

Isabel jerked her attention in off the street to find Dr. Chou and most of the class staring at her

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expectantly.

"Le Chatelier's principle, Ms. Peterson."

The blackboard rippled and she was staring at the back of Mrs. Bowen teaching Classical Literature next
door. And then it wasn't Mrs. Bowen. And then she realized it was about to turn around.

That would be bad.

Very bad. Its eyes would be a deep blood red.

I'm so going to die.

The blackboard reappeared so quickly, the front of the classroom picked up a faint fog of chalk dust.

For a moment, she couldn't breathe and then the moment passed and Dr. Chou was still waiting for an