Curiosity killed the cat, they say. When Rachel, a curious and kind witch, arrives in St. James after her family went through a traumatic experience, she is looking forward to a new start with new friends, sunshine, and happiness. Never could she ha...
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GINA - Magic practice was separated into groups of about 20 people. Usually the elders tried to keep family members, siblings, together and couples apart. Siblings so they could learn from each other and, typical elder supernatural style, compete with each other. Couples usually had to go to different practice sessions, to avoid distractions.
I think Elsa and the Monroes, Colin's parents, who were also the local witch representatives towards the witch council, kept my coven together so I could keep an eye on my people. Or maybe it was Colin who had arranged as such.
Not that he would actually show up to any of the practice sessions. He usually bolted the moment his parents weren't looking and only attended the late-night sessions for witchcraft which I held with the other coven members once or twice a week. Of course, they were off-the-books.
Not that he needed it. Colin was from one of the oldest families in the book of witches. There were little names that could be found before the names of the Monroe family in the book. As such he had a reputation to uphold and had learnt most of these spells when his age didn't make up 2 numbers. I remembered him doing a sleeping spell on his teacher when he was nine. No, he did not need the extra education.
So it came that about twenty of us witches sat together in the glass house of the Monroe family mansion, each smaller group with their own little task of spells to complete.
Rachel hadn't been kidding when she had said she was good at transformation spells. Typical for Elsa's teaching style, Rachel had to perform her most confident spell in front of the whole group of about twenty witches. And she aced it.
"Impressive." Elsa inspected the umbrella. She opened it and closed it multiple times. "Can you also turn it back?" Rachel nodded.
She stood in front of the umbrella and held her hand above it. Then she spoke the transformation spell and I could see her concentrate on the figure she wanted to make out of it. The next moment, a glass of water stood in front of her. We applauded.
"That was amazing, Rachel." Elsa turned to the group. "As you all saw, she didn't just transform an object into something else but she also transformed between a fluid substance and a hard object." Again applause.
"Thank you, Rachel, you can sit down now." Rachel seemed relieved.
The glass house or winter garden of the mansion was big enough to hold everyone but also provided us with some light and air. Things which were good for learning and to clean out the room if someone spelled something into poisonous gas...again.
Elsa's job was teaching each of us magic which corresponded to our own capabilities while also pushing us forward so we could strive to learn more. Of course, higher magic was forbidden for us minors. As if I had ever cared about that. I had done higher magic since I could count to a hundred.
"Joel, usually I don't ask the younger students to perform in front of everyone, so if you don't want to show us, it's okay." We all looked to Rachel's younger brother.
