The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School
“The Swanage was authentically defensible against armed attack, as had been proved in the boiled swede riots of ’88.
Amy had only been inside the Swanage twice: welcomed on her first day and interrogated in the aftermath of Kali’s abduction. Neither occasion was comforting. Early this term, Burtoncrest had dragooned Amy and Frecks to clean gritty snow from the wings of the stone eagles flanking the mock-mediaeval entrance. The whip had Minored them for not thinking ‘buffalo’ when she called ‘moose’, then stuck them with the chore. Brushing the Budgies wasn’t as arduous as scraping the Heel, but was a wasted Break when she’d rather have been inside somewhere warmer doing something less dull.
Approaching the Tempest Keep, Amy realised she was in the habit of avoiding this part of School, even walking a long way round so as not to pass before the hawk-eyed Budgies. She remembered her uncomfortable sense that Headmistress saw all… though surely that wasn’t so this term and she rather wished it was.
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