The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy
I turn my attention back to the marble, and I do – willing it first to lift, and then to move, and then to…I don’t know, do anything.
My whole body is sweating after about fifteen minutes of concentration, but then Alvez sighs and drops my hand. “It was good work, Clark,” he says, smiling at me with encouragement as he claps me on the shoulder. “It may just be that our particular magics do not speak to each other. Shall we switch it up?”
Alvez claps his hands in the air and asks for results, but when no one reports any ability to make the marble do anything at all, he just sighs and puts us in new couples.