Sam climb off the table and righted herself as she spoke aloud.

  “H.U.D. Call head of security and healer Rebecca Mendes to the cafeteria and take possession of the bracelet recordings of the event for witness identification.”

  As she finished her order the H.U.D. bellowed into everyone's mind.

  WILLIAM ANDERSON HAS CAUSED A SECURITY BREACH AND ATTACKED WITHOUT PROVOCATION A STUDENT OF THE STORM HAVEN ACADEMY OF MAGIC AND WILL BE HELD IN CUSTODY UNTIL FURTHER ACTION HAS BEEN DEEMED NECESSARY. SECURITY AUTHORITIES AND HEALERS HAVE BEEN ALERTED AND ARE EN ROUTE.

  ANYBODY WHO WAS A WITNESS WILL STAY AND GIVE A DETAILED ACCOUNT OF WHAT THEY SAW. ANYONE WHO LEAVES THE VICINITY WILL HAVE IT MARKED DOWN IN THEIR PERMANENT ACADEMY FILE AS AN ATTEMPT TO LEAVE THE SCENE OF A CRIME.

  Sam noted a couple of students near the exit freeze. The rest of the people in the cafeteria had already frozen still. Sam wasn't sure if even she had heard H.U.D. like that before, he sounded like a beast! she heard movement as Jonathon Morden and 4 of his deputies ran into the cafeteria.

  “What the hell's going on here!?”

  He marched to the group around Anderson and froze. He looked sharply at Sam and then at his deputies. “Grab her! And take her to a holding facility, now! before she hurts someone else.”

  Edward stepped up.

  “She was attacked by him! Sam was just defending herself. there are what? A hundred witnesses? And the bracelets recorded everything.” Morden looked sharply at Edward.

  “And you are?”

  Edward looked at the head of security and seemed to grow a couple of inches as he announced “Edward Fielders.”

  Morden looked harder at the boy as if to see a likeness. “As in, THE Fielders?” Edward looked at Morden in an imperious manor that Sam had never seen before and nodded. Morden harrumphed.

  “Right, well in any case she still needs to come down and at the very least give a witness account of the attack.” He looked back at Sam. “You're willing to go with them if we don't restrain you?” Sam nodded and then turned to Edward and smiled her thanks, Edward's imperious expression vanished in an instant and he grinned back.

  Morden looked at his men and nodded as they surrounded Sam and went to escort her to the security office.

  Rebecca Mendes rushed in and scrambled around the students still surrounding Anderson. when Morden boomed. “Make way for the healer! Can't you see she's trying to get access.” Mendes looked up gratefully and then shot a glance at Sam as she saw the body and an angry expression over came her face. Rae stepped in. “It was self defence lady. He attacked her from behind when she was eating snacks and threw her across the room! Everyone here saw it.”

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  Rebecca grimaced. “Can you reverse it?” Sam nodded. “As soon as her swears to never attack me again I can, but I'm not going to heal someone who wants to kill me.”

  The security guards looked to Morden who indicated they remove Sam and she obediently followed them down into the holding facility.

  Sam sat in a chair in an interrogation room, no different than the one troll and she had talked in. maybe it was a modular bulk buy. “Buy one get three free!” she thought to herself and drummed her fingers on the table. “Hey H.U.D. can I get Netflix in here?”

  AFFIRMATIVE.

  “Outstanding, I would like to watch episode two of season three of misfits. I'm not too thrilled with losing the Irish guy from season one and two, but it beats sitting here looking at the walls.”

  Sam smiled and shut her eyes as the credits from season three episode two started up in glorious panoramic vision and utterly perfect surround sound. This was epic. 4K 3D eat your heart out.

  Sam was halfway through episode four when she was rudely interrupted.

  “Miss Holden I'm sorry to have kept you waiting, it seemed there was an unusually enthusiastic group of witnesses who appeared insistent on giving very detailed accounts of the event. It seems you ordered the H.U.D. to keep them in the cafeteria and wouldn't let them go until they had given a witness report.”

  “Actually I asked the H.U.D. to call you and healer Mendes and to take possession of the recordings so that they wouldn't have to wait around. It seemed the H.U.D.'S security protocols kicked in. Anything else you can blame Luke for.”

  Morden harrumphed. “Well it seems as though even if you didn't try to defuse the incident you didn't cause it and you only hit out once, all be it with almost lethal force.

  You could have taken a different path, I have seen the reports of the fight you had under sergeant Tull's supervision, why didn't you physically restrain him instead of this...siphoning? Surely that would have sufficed?”

  Sam shook her head. “I tried physical, he just upped his response by bringing in more people to back him up as soon as he was healed. Not only that, I'm still learning to control my berserker potential and I didn't want innocent bystanders hurt. I'm pretty sure that's why he picked a crowded cafeteria, he expected me to rage out and attack everyone.

  "No this way only I could heal him and unless he swears not to attack me or mine again then he''ll spend the rest of his very short life as an aged infirm man. It's his choice and if he were the right sort for the defence force he would have already made the call.”

  Morden nodded. “Actually he's calling for you to be expelled from the academy and a lock put on your magic. He says your a menace to society and he is a victim.”

  “What? He attacked me!”

  Morden nodded again. “He says he did it to highlight the danger you bring to the students.”

  “But that's complete bull shit. He's a bully and a groper! Ask Troll...er.. I mean Sergeant Tull.” Sam looked sheepishly at Morden. He grimaced. “I wouldn't let him catch you calling him that. You think Anderson got a kicking?” He shook his head.

  “Anyway I looked into Anderson's background and dug a little deeper than we normally would, it turns out his I.D. is false, not only that but they found a small communication chip under his skin. Mendes didn't find it, but it gives out a small nano second electronic burst every twenty four hours. Almost imperceptible, but we were lucky enough that the bracelet Caught it when it went off.”

  Sam scrunched up her face in disbelief. “He's a spy?”

  Morden nodded. “Looks that way, have you ever heard of the “Swords of Light”?

  Sam blew out a breath and shook her head.