A snap of fingers right at my left ear drew me up—away from the vacuum of the bleak rainforest in my dreams—into the presence of a blue-eyed professor whose eyes burned with gentle fury.

“Sleeping in class on your first day??”

A repeat of the sentence scrawled past his parched lips which informed me that his voice had been what had interrupted my dream.

I wasn’t sure if I should be grateful for that or not.

On one hand, I had been cut off from being plagued by those wraiths, and on the other hand, I hadn’t learnt something new.

If…

Wait a minute!

I pushed my body to sit...