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- Tower Climber
- Jakob Tanner
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“Follow me,” said the instructor, walking through the crowd of students and towards the front entrance of the academy’s courtyard.
They followed behind the instructor as he took them to the climber’s guild entrance and through the back hall to the entrance of the tower.
There were defense climbers guarding the entrance as well as a clerk standing in a glass box with filing cabinets and other information.
It was the last checkpoint between the tower-zone and the tower itself.
“I’ll be taking this group of student climbers with me up to floor-2,” said the instructor. “We’ll be back by the end of the day.”
The clerk eyed the crowd of students and then handed the instructor something to sign.
“Try coming back with all of them this time,” said the clerk.
Max’s stomach sank when he overheard that.
The instructor laughed. “I can’t make any promises, but I’ll try.”
The instructor’s words didn’t make him feel that much better about what was about to happen.
The man turned back to the group of students. “Well, don’t just stand there. C’mon!”
They walked up the gravelly road towards the giant spire shooting into the sky.
It was even larger and more foreboding up close.
The entrance to the tower was an open passageway of darkness and shadow. It loomed ominously before them.
After years of dreaming about it, Max was finally going to get the chance to enter the tower.
26
It was very dark in the tower.
Max couldn’t see a thing.
Then suddenly light appeared in the form of blue flaming torches attached to the walls.
There hadn’t been a switch or anything. The torches had just turned on automatically.
Was this the magic of the tower on display?
He felt a sharp painful pinch in his side. “Ow.”
“Stop looking so impressed,” whispered Casey. “Everyone knows about the blue flames. It’s probably one of the most mundane yet magical properties of the tower. Everyone knows that except for you for whatever weird reason. Stop sticking out like a sore thumb, newbie!”
They stood in a chamber with a fountain at the center.
The instructor slowly walked around the fountain and through a tunnel towards another chamber.
“Have you been here before?” Max asked Casey quietly.
“Of course,” she grumbled at his annoying question. “Everyone has. This is where kids are taken to see if they unlock a profile. That was six years ago. I was ten. I haven’t been back here since.”
Max looked down at the fountain as he slowly walked around it. The water looked clear and normal, nothing out of the ordinary. Yet, according to Casey, it was this water that unlocked a person’s profile?