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We headed back inside, to the Magical Energy class. I walked toward Yllana after telling Marty I wanted to talk to her in private.
"How did it go?" I asked her. "I'm sorry, but I was too busy blowing up things and couldn't really see you from the other side of the field. Did you manage to heat the water?"
"No," Yllana said, frowning. "Professor Maler said it makes little sense for us to even try. You can't really practice magic without your body. Not beyond the simplest exercises."
"Did you try?" I asked, worried about my friend. She sacrificed a lot to learn magic.
"I did," she said. "But couldn't manage anything. Professor Maler is right. I hoped that, if I could just go through this year and show my parents how good I can be, they would…"
I could see she was upset.
"But you're
