Altered With Magic

I ignored Sera and went back to my lessons.

Monday would be the first day of the new year at the academy.

Even with Sera yelling like a crazy person, I couldn't stifle my excitement.

I always looked forward to the opening ceremony.

Abernathy presented me with an orb, which allowed me to see which house the new students belonged in.

Sometimes I wondered whether I should use the orb on myself to discover which house I belonged to, but I was too chicken.

In A Study on Charms, I would teach the class how to select an object suitable for a magical charm.

It was a serious process choosing and preparing a charm before it was altered with magic. Charms worked best when paired with the person's magic, and that's why we had the opening ceremony.

A student with fairy ancestry would have better luck creating emotional charms, like love, while a witch with troll magic would excel at offensive or defensive charms.

Witches with elven magic could produce amazing luck charms.