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We were finishing a round, and I laid down my run when I heard from behind me, “But I wonder if she can read.”

Renna looked at me and I looked at her. Unable to help it, I spun toward Aiyana. “Really? Pulling the Nerede ‘never-read’ play on words? As if that’s one I haven’t heard before.”

I turned back to the table.

“So can you?” she asked, her voice laced with haughtiness.

I rolled my eyes. “Yes. I can read, Aiyana. I can write. I can also bake.”

“Well aren’t you just better than all the rest of us,” she snarled.

I spun back around to look at her. “No. I don’t believe I’m superior to anyone in this room, not that you would know what that looks like.”

Her face went red. “How dare you!”

“How dareI?” I asked while trying to look like I didn’t care as much as I truly did. “You have thrown nothing but veiled insults at me since I got here, but it’s my fault?”

She opened her hand, and pale pink magic flew out so quickly I didn’t even have the time to be scared.

The magic disintegrated around me, just like it had the night before with the flower.

And then there was another blast of magic, but this one not directed at me.

Renna was using her own magic, sending what was like a crackling wave of red wind at Aiyana and shoving her back. “Pick on someone your own size, Aiyana,” she spit.

Guards were rushing in trying to dissolve the situation and the next thing I knew, Owen had me by the arm and was pulling me out of there.

“Are you okay?” he asked.

I shrugged. “Yes. I think so? Hopefully she just got herself thrown out?”

Owen sighed. “I doubt it.”

“What? Why?”

“Hang on,” he said. “I’ll tell you when we are back to your room.”

I gave him a nod that I understood.

Silvia was still there when we arrived, prepping for my evening attire. “Oh! You’re early!”

Owen held up a hand. “There was an issue and I had to get her out of there.” He pointed toward the door and his green magic shot out of his finger and formed a barrier along the door and wall again. Was he keeping others out or was it for no one to hear us? I wasn’t sure.

“Are you okay?” Silvia asked me.

“Yes. Aiyana tried to use her magic to attack me.”

“After you baited her into it,” Owen added.

I glared at him. “There hasn’t been a day I’ve been here that she has not insulted me. She went too far today, and I stood up for myself. Yet this is my fault?”

He held up a hand. “No. No, I didn’t mean it like that.”

“Then what is the problem?” I barked.

“Aiyana’s father is the problem,” Owen fired back. “That’s why I don’t think she will be going anywhere.”

I quieted down, not liking to hear that answer.