13 After he spent an afternoon helping me matchmake for Yllana, Marty asked me to join him for regular meals at the Academy. I agreed, but my family insisted I have most meals at home. We settled for Tuesdays and Thursdays, the days I didn't go to work. The Practical Magic classes went back to the crystals after that first class with buckets. Which was nice, since I didn't want to spend more time outside. It was getting quite cold. "As you realized by now," Professor Felan said, walking among us, as we practiced with the crystal lamps, "not all of you are equal. Some of you are so powerful that, if you do not keep the power under tight control, you can be a danger to others. Others struggle to add enough energy to the simplest of spells. These differences are unfair, but there is noth

