KAEL
NEXT MORNING
The principal's office felt smaller than usual when I walked in, maybe it was Aldric sitting there already.
He looked up when I closed the door behind me. "You have made a decision," he said, it was not a question.
"I have," I said as I sat down across from him. "Selene is ready to do the binding ritual."
Aldric leaned back in his chair slowly. He was watching me the way he always watched people, like he was reading something written between the words.
"She told you about it?" he asked.
"A Druid came to her," I said. "In a dream. Or something like it, a woman named Nora, she explained what needs to happen."
"And what needs to happen?" Aldric asked.
"Selene needs to bind herself to five people," I said. "People who will anchor her while her power activates. Who wi
