Sylvanus Today was the day that Adelaide would begin her training and Felix would start school. I worried about this for both of them. Adelaide wanted to train in the group sessions so she wasn’t getting special treatment. She needed to go to the beginner class so that meant she was with a bunch of teenagers. She kept saying it wouldn’t take her long to work her way up, but I think she’s forgetting that the younger ones have a lot more energy and they aren’t also learning magic which drains their entire body. There’s no arguing or reasoning with Adelaide. She is incredibly stubborn and sometimes she can be pretty unreasonable. It’s difficult because Herdley is the same, although he will go with whatever Adelaide says. It means I’m always the bad guy and the one who ends up acting like a

