The next morning at breakfast, Call sat down at the table with Aaron and Tamara.
"What do you think about her?" Aaron asked Call and Tamara.
"Andy?" Tamara asked.
"Yeah..." Aaron said. He was to polite to say duh.
" I think she's great." Tamara answered. "It's also nice to have another girl around here."
"I don't know yet." Call said. "Something doesn't seem right."
"What do you mean?"
"I'm not sure yet. She just seems suspicious." Call said.
Tamara raised an eyebrow. She didn't agree.
"Speaking of Andy, where is she?" Call asked.
"Oh! I completely forgot! I was supposed to meet her in the gallery before today's lessons start!" Tamara stood up quickly and ran towards the door.
"Can one of you come get us when it's time to start?" Tamara asked.
Aaron and Call nodded.
"I'm meeting Celia in the library. Do you wanna come?" Call asked Aaron as he stood up from the table.
"Nah." Aaron said. "I have to go tell master Milagros about something Jasper did."
"What did he do this time?"
"He played a prank on Celia and Gwenda. He put a bunch of those toads we had to catch into their rooms."
Call rolled his eyes. He walked to the door.
He made his way through the winding tunnels of the Magisterium to the library. He opened the door.
"Sorry I'm late, I was-" He stopped. It felt like all the air in his body was sucked out of him. Celia was lying on the floor, unmoving. Her eyes were wide open. Call fell on his knees in front of her. He grabbed her wrist to check her pulse. Nothing. She was dead. Her skin was ice cold, like she had been dead for a long time. Call didn't know what to do. He started to panic. Should he go get Tamara from the gallery? Should he go try to find Master Rufus? He didn't know. He used air magic to form a sort of tube. He blew through the tube. A high pitched whistle flew through the air. The year before, Call, Aaron, Tamara and Master Rufus had come up with a plan that whenever you were alone, if you needed help, blow through a whistle and anyone else in the group that hears it will come to help. Tamara and Andy came rushing through the hallways and burst through the library door. She started to say what's wrong, but it was obvious. She started hyperventilating.
She ran out the door. Again, Andy was left standing in a doorway.
"What happened?" She asked.
"I-I-I don't know." Call stuttered. He stared at the body of his young girlfriend. They had only been dating since the end of their Copper year. Only five months.
A few minutes later she came back with Master Rufus, Master Milagros and Aaron. Master Rufus picked up Celia's body. Master Milagros started crying softly. She went over to the library door. She made an announcement throughout the school with the enchanted wristband all the masters wore. The student had similar wristbands, but didn't have nearly as much power as the masters wristbands did.
"All students please return to your rooms for the rest of the day." Master Milagros finished up her announcement.
The library doors were closed as students started filing through the halls.
"When did you find her?" Master Rufus asked Call once the doors were closed.
"It was-" Call put his head in his hands. "I don't know. Ten minutes ago?"
"Do you know why she was here?"
Call nodded. "We were going to meet here. She wanted to tell me something."
"When were you planning on meeting?" Master Milagros asked.
"Eight thir-"
Wait, Call thought. Her skin is cold. She just came in here 20 minutes ago. That's not enough time to make her skin cold. She was killed just before I came in.
"She was frozen." Call muttered.
"Excuse me?" Master Milagros said.
"She was frozen." Call repeated more clearly. "Her skin is ice cold. Her skin wouldn't be cold if she hadn't been frozen."