Free New Moon 1 by Kimaya Mathew Page B

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per breaking the rules for the first time, being human, I have been
admitted in the school because deity Kali ordered him to do it. I
had shrugged then, but now, as we enter canteen and I feel every
gaze on me, I am shaking inside out and instinctively, start
whispering to Kay in front, “Kay,” I say and pause for the time
being, “Why is everyone staring at me?” “Because you are new,
obviously, silly,” she says, and chuckles lightly. I gulp down the
nervousness and starts making to the table, where she is
proceeding, “Hello people,” she says to a girl seating on the other
side of the table. The girl, when looks up, startles me! She looks
so much like Kay . Only the
different thing is…her eyes! She has got green eyes. There is a
mole on the side of her neck. “Kay!” she says, “Where were you,
girl? I have been messaging, and calling you…,” “Alan called me,”
Kay says and turns to me, “Sit down, girl. Help yourself. You
belong to this place too,” “Is she the one…?”she asks to Kay, and
raises her brows in amazement. “Yes, she is a human,” Kay says. I
feel everyone around me going all silent and hushed up. Every eye
is looking at my back. Some are turning from their places and some
are giving me cold glares. Loading my plate with some food, I turn
to look at the girl, who is staring at me with her mouth slightly
opened. “Hi,” she straightens herself, “I am Lyn, your room-mate.
Kay here,” she directs towards the other girl, “She is my twin and
we both are fae.”
    *****
    “ Fae?” I ask and my hand halts with spoon still rose in the
mid air, “Yes, I mean…,” she shrugs, “I mean fairies,” “fairies?” I
gawk at her, mouth open in surprise. “Listen,” Kay says, “I am
going for the choir practice. Show her around the campus. You are
lucky,” she turns to me, “Not many people arrival in the school is
taken in such a special way.” “But,” says Lyn, “Not many are
humans, either?” again, the stares are directed at me. “Bye,”
blowing kisses to both of us, Kay leaves the room. Many
appreciative male glares are following her, as she passes through
the other tables. Finishing with both of our food, Lyn and I, soon
leaves the room and make it out to the campus. “This is the field,
used for various activities,” she directs towards the open ground.
“Lyn,” I say, “What is this school all about? You people seem
pretty interested in the fact that I am the first human…what does
this all means?” Sighing, she takes me by wrist and we make it to a
bench in the corner of the field, “First of all, know this, Tris.
Shakti is the home for super-natural, like us. For the human world,
we are maniacs, lunatics or the juvenile sort of people. We are not
normal and…,” she shrugs, “That’s truth, by the way. We are…not
human. Not one of us. Kay and I,” she says smiling, “We are
fairies. Shantanu Alan, the dean, is a Yaksha , the
telepath,” my eyes go wide with wonder and I am scared for some
mysterious reason. The Dean is a telepath!
    “ Come,” she says, “I will
open some more doors to wonderland for you.” Getting up, she starts
proceeding to the other side of the building. Welcome to the
wonderland, Alice, I think inwardly.
    ***
    “ This is the school building,” walking down a path of
forest, with long and shadowy trees surrounding us, I see a tall
stone building standing in front of me. Gates are so tall; they
almost seem like touching the sky. “Holidays are still going on,”
she answers my unspoken query, “many kids have gone home and many,
like us, are here.” “People of Shimla,” I say, “They say that
Shakti is the place for weird kids. I mean,” she nods, as if
supporting me, “they don’t know the reality and we are forbidden to
tell anyone about the reality of the place. This,” she directs, as
we enter from the main door, “the classroom for the new admissions.
For the first years. You are supplied with your