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- Authors: Roxy Sloane
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Tessa
Oxford. The city of dreaming spires, ancient legacies… and secrets.
It’s also the last place in the world I ever expected to find
myself, an ocean away from my regular life in Philadelphia,
dressed up in a neat blouse and skirt, sipping tea in the gardens of the fivehundred-year-old buildings that make up Ashford College. The oldest, most
prestigious of all the Oxford colleges.
And the one that hides the most secrets of all.
“Isn’t it incredible?” one of the other guests coos. Lacey, I think she’s
called, and she’s wide-eyed and gasping over every detail of this place. “It
was built in the sixteenth century; they shipped all the sandstone over from
Florence to build the main cloisters. Can’t you just feel the history?”
“Mmhmm,” I give a vague nod, scanning the crowd. It’s a welcome
party for all of us new graduate students at the college, and we’ve been
stuck here an hour already: milling around the manicured lawn, drinking
weak tea, and meeting the professors and staff. Everyone around me is
buzzing with excitement to have finally arrived, and if I’m honest, my
nerves are on edge, too.
But for a very different reason.
I look around, waiting for my chance. The crowd is an eclectic mix of
graduate students in their twenties and thirties, and brainy-looking
professors. Everyone has that awkward ‘first day of school’ look, laughing
too loudly at bad jokes, and eager to impress.
“Hello,” a new staff member greets us, pulling me back to the
conversation. She’s a tall, serious woman in tweed, her grey hair cut in a
severe bob. “And who are you?”
“Tessa,” I introduce myself politely, “I’m here for the year, studying the
social politics of eighteenth-century literature.”
“Ah yes, our Ashford scholar,” she says, naming the scholarship I
managed to find to fund my trip. “Welcome, welcome, we’re thrilled to
have you.”
“And I’m thrilled to be here,” I lie, forcing another perky grin.
“It’s always been a dream to study in Oxford,” Lacey gushes beside me.
“I can’t believe I’m finally here!”
Neither can I. But it wasn’t my dream, but a plan.
Carefully made, painstakingly executed, step by step that would bring
me here, to Ashford College, and all its secrets.
Secrets I’m determined to reveal, no matter what the cost.
“Are you one of the professors?” I ask the woman politely.
“No, I’m the administrator, Geraldine Wesley,” she introduces herself.
I perk up, recognizing the name. “So, you’ve been on the other end of
all those helpful emails,” I say, flashing her a smile.
“That’s right,” she smiles back. “I supervise student life and keep track
of everything here at Ashford outside of your studies. So, if you have any
questions or concerns, just let me know.”
“I will,” I say, already knowing Geraldine here is going to be very
helpful. Because I have a thousand questions, and she’ll give me the
answers…
Just not the way she thinks.
Somebody taps a glass, and everyone quiets. It’s the head of the college,
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