Esme
The sun was beginning to set in the sky. Hailey was long gone from our training session, but I still sat alone in the middle of the field. Being here always brought me some peace. I felt a little closer to my grandmother. I wish I could have known her. The light filtered through the trees with an orangey-pink glow as the shadows grew longer over the field. The temperature was dropping by the second, but I wasn’t ready to go. I glanced at the bare ground beside me and scanned the edge of the field. Small broken sticks from the trees had fallen to the ground. I twirled my hand to gather a few and pulled them through the air to drop beside me. I was learning to love magic. My relationship with it had changed since I no longer resented it or blamed it for how complicated things were. A s
