Though Katie was mostly absent during the day, she met them nightly at Aurora Hollow. In fact, she’d become rather manic about their nightly practices, as if determined to rebel against her father’s prohibition in the only way she could. They didn’t really do anything new that first week. Mostly they read and studied, which Penny guessed was necessary, but it was also almost as boring as regular schoolwork.
One night they studied the difference between invocation—magic that required spoken words, usually a simple appeal to an outside source—and evocation, magic that relied on inner talent, innate abilities and, of course, lots of practice.
That night started with Penny’s least-favorite kind of assignment, a written essay. The page following the invocation/evocation lesson started blan
