Page 10 of King of Forest and Fur

“That man in your office? His name is Drystan Sahylnd. You hit him straight in the chest with your spell. If we’re here, he should be.” He held his hand out to pull her up to her feet.

“What sort of spell did you cast?” he asked, looking again at the foreign, yet familiar scenery.

“To get us outside? I don’t know.”

“I don’t think we’re just outside,” Rehn said skeptically.

The sorceress looked confused. He gestured around and that was when she finally looked.

“Where are we?” she finally asked after walking around the spot where the academy had stood moments ago.

“I was going to ask you the same thing,” he replied.

Rehn had also tried to scan the area again, but his eyes continuously settled on the woman. There was something familiar about her… somehow he knew her.

“So, you don’t recognize anything about this place?”

She shook her head slowly. “Actually… Wait.”

Rehn watched her hesitant walk become purposefully directed toward a tree.

Her eyes closed as she neared it. Her arm went out to touch the tree with her fingertips.

“Huh.” She looked around again.

Rehn watched her expression shift from fearful, curious, and almost… shock?

“Oh my… holy…” she trailed off, now her energy shifting to excitement.

“What? What is going on?” Rehn demanded.

“We’re at the academy.”

“I don’t think so.”

“No, no. We’re at the academy, just not in the present.”

Rehn thought for a moment at her words, taking in his surroundings again.

“You time-jumped us with your spell?”

Before she answered, a species of stag that no longer existed in any of the realms due to extinction jumped out in front of them before bounding off.

“Into the past?”

All the woman could do was nod, biting her lip in her own astonishment.

“How far?”

She shrugged.

“How many times have you done this? What do you know?”

“I… I have never done this. I mean, I’ve been trying to, but I have never succeeded.”

“Well, you sure as shit have succeeded now.”

The woman looked stunned as she continued to look around. Rehn watched her, still unable to figure out what his inner bear was still so wound up about.

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