It wasn't the academy's bell-this one was heavier, deeper. It rolled through the walls like thunder shaking bones, each echo carrying a strange chill that made her spine stiffen.

Elowyn snapped out of her thoughts, heart hammering. The Draven Clan House book nearly slid off her lap before she caught it and stuffed it into her satchel, her fingers trembling.

Another toll came-louder, longer-until even the glass of her window shivered. The sound wasn't a call to class.

It was a ...