After that cryptic message, Martinus escorted me to the Magical Energy class. We'd missed the first class entirely, between the encounter with my uncle and our conversation.
After class, he told me to go home and change into something elegant; he would take me shopping, as promised. I wasn't sure I would be allowed to go out, with all the security issues, but going out, even if it was with him, sounded good, so I changed into one of my good dresses, and even put on my sapphire bracelet.
I'm not sure what Martinus told Mrs. Kaffale, but by the time I returned from the Academy, she allowed him to come into Kaffale house, and he was waiting at the entrance hall. I saw them talking when I came downstairs.
"Good afternoon, Miss Laurendeau," Moira Kaffale smiled. "Your fiancée here said he'd
