Thirteenth Child
“I did a lot better in most of my classes once I stopped fretting over maybe blowing someone up if I got mad. I still had trouble with magic, though. I was afraid of it—or, rather, I was afraid of what I might do with it. The book-work was fine, but at least half the time, when I started to cast a spell, the fear got in the way and it fizzled. The looks my classmates gave me went from curious to doubtful to sneering.Oddly enough, I didn’t have any difficulty in Miss Ochiba’s Aphrikan magic class.... Most of the Aphrikan magic we were doing didn’t feel like spells, and that helped. We still practiced foundation work at least twice a week, but those of us who’d been in the class for two years already were up to what Miss Ochiba called “advanced world-sensing.” It started with being aware of the world, the way we’d learned in foundation work, and then went on to feeling the links between what we were sensing and ourselves. The first time, she had us each give her the slates we used in our regular classes.MoreLess
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