*
For two whole days, Sierra still couldn't come to grips with her magic. Day and night she struggled, and Brandon was always by her side trying to help her.
"It's alright," he told her in an encouraging tone when she tried to conjure the light to her hands once again. "I'm sure it's just going to take some time before you get used to these powers."
Sierra groaned in agony, and she tried for the thousandth time to do it. Leonard had drawn a simple target on the oak tree in front of the cottage, and he told her to hit it using her magic. For several hours now, she had tried to summon what little bit of magic she could to try and hit the target. But every time she managed to feel a tingling sensation in her fingertips, it would vanish almost as quickly as it came.
She screamed from fru
