in the thick grass. My thoughts were all jumbled together beca

turn out li

anguage a little. What’s more, I’m sure my pronunciation is even better than Professor Gardaren’s! My grandma used to say I acquired the gift of being a linguist at my mother’s knee. Well, I told this to the Professor when I asked him to help me with entering Grad

ory? But I knew ancient spells perfectly! I could have gotten all A’s! Alas, after failing the exam I couldn’t stand for a good position with my b

h such abilities, the only thing for me is to study History. Actually, it has been

m a free ne

ound warm stone. Then, I stared into the distance

m still about to lose my control. It’

believed to be ill-fated. It was a place where people

money for living on

I found some sticks of equal length and inserted them between the flow

better be the Queen of the Dead.

side, I heard a l

examining me. It seemed to me that it had even c

ell, nowadays, you can’t even bring a cat back from the other world. Don’t you know it was different seven hundre

t was agreeing with me. It was pleasant for me to imagine that we were having a

and began to pace the soft gras

tand – a dragon! The very dragon whose language I’ve been learning with such

wide and began to

and beautiful. A mesmerizing melody. At its sound, souls begin coming to life and dancing, obeying the mage’s will. The melody is said to b

ancing, bre

of every school year. But, as you already know, no one has managed to do this so far. The

ly, hopped away and h

I gave a wave of the hand and

hrieked with surprise and rolled to one side. It felt

one slab. It didn’t look like a normal boulder. A regular rectangu

ce I saw it had some letters written on it. The more I dug, the more I felt curi

ont of me. The ancient text was quite readable!

hands. I read the text, convincing myself that I could easily read it, and at once

ynde sjfndal

viont transi

sarhgerte yo

ortento iro

l unveil the

l put everythi

will always

se in bloody c