CHAPTER TWENTY
Another sunny day. Another light breeze tickled my cheeks. Another failed effort at conjuring magic.
“Why won’t this work?” I grumbled as I looked down at my hands that lay in my crossed legs. The comfortable grass did little to alleviate my irritation. I waved my hands as I had done that day in Shian’s palace but the sparkles didn’t pop out. “Come on. You’ve done it before. Why not now?”
Arian came up to me with a tray and a plate of little cakes. She knelt in front of me and set the tray down. “Perhaps you have not found the purpose to your magic.”
I blinked at her. “What do you mean?”
She bowed her head and shrugged. “It is only something my father said as he caught my brother his magic.” A smile danced across her lips. “My brother is rather, well, unfoc
