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There were only a few hundred mages in the entire world. And all of them were educated at The Academy. But Delaney’s parents hadn’t known that, just as they hadn’t known there were mages. Still didn’t. And it had taken the headmaster a great deal to persuade her parents to allow her to attend.

Delaney’s parents didn’t know she was a mage. Nor did they know The Academy specialized in training mages. Mages had gone into hiding after the Catholic church had started executing “witches” hundreds of years ago. Not that they managed to kill any mages, and Delaney didn’t want to image the carnage the death mages had […]

Delaney missed her parents from time to time, though she seemed to be the only one at The Academy who did. But most of the other students she knew at The Academy had dark mage parents. They’d been relieved to attend, and their parents had wanted them to achieve the prestige of graduating from the […]