The Witch & the Grizzly (DREADMOR DARK ACADEMY #4) by Lisa Daniels EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Lisa Daniels
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Present Day – Eva
Sometimes, she felt like a failure. Mostly, she was fine with how things
were, fine with how her life had worked out. On occasion, though, she felt
the ache of something missing, a notable absence in what should have been
a great life.
Eva came from a proud family of tiger shapeshifters. Her older
brother, Martin Gallagher – his form as a tiger was beautiful, with burning
orange/gold fur, and their parents displayed a similar form.
But that special gene had skipped Eva. Everyone in her immediate
family could transform: uncles, cousins, and younger shifters, even some
little cubs.
Not her, however. Perhaps some fae being had taken one look at her
when she was born and decided to curse her with the inability to transform,
stopping her from truly being able to connect with her family and the
inherited traits they all bore.
The only thing she really inherited was the peculiar symmetry of tiger
shapeshifters, from their amber eyes and reddish-orange hair to their
heightened senses. Nothing more, though. She felt no itch to obey the tiger
within, no urge to stretch out and transform into a powerful, muscled tiger,
the largest of all felines.
Watching her brother run off into the mountain with her parents in
their tiger form, celebrating their strength and agility, indulging in their
desire to run free – made her feel even more lonely and inadequate.
It’s not their fault. They love me. That should be enough.
Love couldn’t disguise the differences, however. She felt those
differences more intensely at family gatherings and clan-related events. No
one wanted to be the odd one out, the ugly duckling, or, in her case, the
ugly tigress.
At least at Dreadmor Academy, sitting in Professor Valgrur’s
classroom, Eva felt a lot more useful. Today, once Eva left home and was
firmly ensconced in the classroom, the professor wanted to teach the class
how to make a Truesight potion, a potion she could have benefited from
knowing about some months before when her brother actually needed one.
Still, better late than never.
The wizened old professor paced around the classroom as the students
got to mixing and creating their concoctions, following the professor’s
precise instructions. Eva worked with Harriet Mooring, a big-boned,
muscular woman with a small drop of bear shifter blood. Harriet’s brow
furrowed as she focused on the recipe, which required a few strands of
eagle feathers. This meant plucking out individual elements of the feather
rather than using the whole thing. Potion work required a mixture of
precision, timing, magic, and luck, and sometimes a bit of mad inspiration.
Eva concentrated, touched the water in her vial, and sent a part of her
magical essence into it. Every vial needed a bit of essence. Otherwise,
you’d be throwing ingredients into plain water, which didn’t do much. As
potion-making was a branch of enchanting and glamour work, students also
took lessons in that, though Eva felt most comfortable in this classroom,
where there was a puzzle waiting to be completed.
The puzzle took time
and focus, and even still, you didn’t always end up with the result you
wanted, but sometimes some pretty cool things happened anyway.
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