“Something is terribly wrong,” Keenley said after a long pause, even though there was no one there to hear it. Saying it aloud didn’t stop the sick feeling in his stomach.

He scooped up his various papers from the tabletop and scurried out the door. His quill pen, falling from its perch atop his ear, left yet another long black streak down the back of his blue learner’s robe, and joined several others in becoming permanently mislaid.

Keenley ran down the wide spiral staircase, a. . .

“Something is terribly wrong,” Keenley said after a long pause, even though there was no one there to hear it. Saying it aloud didn’t stop the sick feeling in his stomach.

He scooped up his various papers from the tabletop and scurried out the door. His quill pen, falling from its perch atop his ear, left yet another long black streak down the back of his blue learner’s robe, and joined several others in becoming permanently mislaid.

Keenley ran down the wide spiral staircase, a. . .