A long jagged line cut parallel to the seam of the diary. More pages had been torn out, likely revealing exactly where the professor was. What was it about books at this academy not being allowed to keep all their pages?

"How would she know that when he's been missing for months?" I asked. "When no one else can find him? Was...was that why she was murdered?"

"I don't know." He blinked hard so the snow clinging to his lashes fell to his cheeks, and he absently wiped ...