38. The Meeting

He follows Satanism; the darkest of the dark, the blackest of the black. – Bloodsongs

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(Aurora)

Aurora stared at the woman in front of her. The new teacher.

Lyka Brimstone. What kind of name was that?

Everything about her was kind of exotic and strange. And when Aurora's eyes met her, she knew that she was magic like Art and herself. Okay, she wasn't really on the level with Art, but she had magic in her blood, too.

Something in her was so extraordinarily out of this world that Aurora felt the punch of it in her gut – this was no ordinary woman, and she didn’t know how she knew it, but she knew.

She also knew this woman.. Though she had never met her before, she knew this woman, as if the knowledge of her was ancient, and buried in her bones, and she also knew that everything that had happened around her, to her, since she was so young to understand it, was somehow connected with this extraordinary being. It was a blood-deep thought.

Maybe Lyka would have answers, for all of Auror