Zero Owls: A Short Story

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It was hard to ignore the death glare Helen had shot her way after realizing a certain color of green was shining through a translucent white. Olivia mentally smacked herself for not taking into account the fact that the woman had on white clothing before she resorted to using water—if there was a good way to make friends with someone, dousing them in liquid and exposing their bra to the world was not one of them. Instead, she focused her attention on the owl on the board, the violent display of the number zero being shredded into white bits by the owl a fine, but horrifying distraction. The crumpled remains of zero lay in unrecognizable chunks, white lines of blood trickling down the board as the owl’s talon crudely sliced a ‘one’ atop the …show more content…

This was certainly not the last time she’d step into this circle today. One was just the beginning—two may be even harder, considering the fact that the entire class had been watching with great interest to figure out just how she dueled. They knew at least one of her tricks, and who knows what else they may have noticed on their own—her strong defense, her relatively weak offense, the fact that she could only focus on one spell at a time even if she was able to use her wand and her free hand for magic, even the fact that she leaned her weight a bit forward in her stance. She didn’t know what other people saw when they watched her, but she knew that they were all looking for a weakness, for information—what she was capable of, what she wasn’t, how to throw her off. The next duel may very well be the last one of the day for …show more content…

He seemed to enjoy his job in this moment, giving what was probably the first glance into just how he ended up in this teaching position here in the first place. Maybe he really had a passion for this—and that would make sense, considering how hard he seemed to want to push them and how challenging and surprising his methods were. Preparing them for anything and everything—perhaps he really did want to make sure everyone had the ability to survive, despite his apparent lack of care for their wellbeing he’d demonstrated thus

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