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“YOU’RE THE NOTHOS .”<br />

CHAPTER 3<br />

Turning around in my desk, I stare at the girl behind me.<br />

“The what?” I ask.<br />

“Nothos,” she says again. “The normal one.”<br />

“Normal?” I laugh. “Depends on your definition.”<br />

“As in not a descendant.”<br />

“<strong>Oh</strong>, then I guess so.” It’s true, after all.<br />

She sticks out her hand. “I’m Nicole.”<br />

“Phoebe,” I say, smiling as I shake her hand.<br />

Nicole is the first person I’ve met at the Academy. Okay, so technically<br />

I’m only in my first class—World Literature of the Twentieth<br />

Century—and it hasn’t even started yet, but still, a first is a first.<br />

“Your stepsister is an evil harpy.” Her voice is stone cold and I<br />

must look as frightened as I feel because she hurries to add, “In a<br />

purely metaphysical way.”<br />

“<strong>Oh</strong>.” Whew. Not that I would be the tiniest bit surprised if that<br />

were true, given everything I’ve learned in the last eighteen hours.<br />

And beautiful but vicious pretty much describes Stella perfectly.<br />

“Tell me about it.”<br />

“Have you got a year?” she asks and I like her immediately.

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