Fourteen
I spend my fourth day at the Guild focusing on calm thoughts like gentle streams and snowflakes dusting quiet winter landscapes. I make it through the day without traveling to a different time, but I almost project an image of a sunset on Ned as the two of us walk into the Fish Bowl to fight each other. I watch him frown, blink, then shake his head while I mentally reinforce the barrier around my mind. Ned then proceeds to kick my butt because, as it turns out, he’s far better at fighting than he is at talking to people.
After dinner, I return to the Guild to meet Olive so she can give me my first assignment. She doesn’t greet me when I enter her office, but I’m quickly becoming used to that. Annoyed With Life seems to be her default setting.
“Sit,” she says after I’ve hovered
