title: Introductions (The Academy) (Volume 1)
author:  C L Stone 
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  > Empowered Academy: 1985
  
  Book Two in the Empowered Academy Trilogy
  
  By Dawn Jansen
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2020 by Dawn Jansen
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any
  manner without written permission of the copyright owner except for the use of
  quotations in a book review. For more information, email me at:
  [dawnjansenbooks@gmail.com](mailto:dawnjansenbooks@gmail.com)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  > Chapter 1
  
  Emily
  
  The ground shook as the thick metal walls of the test chamber rose abruptly,
  trapping the four of us—me, my best friend Lizzy, and our two classmates,
  Baxter and Carl—in a narrow corridor.
  
  “Ready, Em?” asked Lizzy, shooting me a mischievous grin that I’d seen many
  times before.
  
  Lizzy and I grew up together in Rockland, Maine. We used to hang out every day
  after school, buying Tiger Beat at the local 7-11 and going fishing down by
  the pier, but I never would have thought that one day we’d both be enrolled at
  a school for the empowered 