EXCERPT:
Tick … Tick … Tick …
Cassandra
Booth tried to ignore the clock as it clicked away from above the desk
beside her. It was nerve-wracking enough knowing that if you wanted to
take the test to be an apprentice witch you had to do it in front of
at least fifty people. However, the clock reminding her it was just
about to start was driving her nuts.
Tick … Tick … Tick …
Cassie
tried to go over each step of the potion she was making in her head.
She needed to concentrate and ignore the noises around her as the room
began to fill up with high schoolers.
Tick … Tick …
The
sound was lost in the now-growing sound of students talking.
Unfortunately, that wasn’t any better. She glanced up at the room in
front of her. Mistake. It was almost half-full of people. No one was
looking directly at her, but that didn’t make it any easier. Cassie was
anxious enough sitting in the lecture area alone, on display, but now
there were students who would be watching and talking about her.
Cassie
kept her eyes locked on the table and all her supplies. Taking
inventory was easy. Doing the actual potion and saying the spell
correctly was supposed to be the hard part. No one in her high school,
let alone grade, was even attempting to make the protection spell that
had been assigned to her and which would move her from witchling up to
the level of junior apprentice. Most people were shocked when she’d
asked. It had been many years since a high school student had
apprenticed, but that wasn’t going to stop Cassie. She was ready to get
out of her boring classes. She was ready to join everyone in obtaining
the great knowledge that came with being a full-time member of the
coven. Cassie was ready to belong.
Originally
from Wisconsin, B. Kristin currently resides in Ohio with her husband,
three small children, and three cats. When not doing the mom thing of
chasing kids, baking cookies, and playing outside, she is using her PhD
in biology as a scientist. In her free time she is currently hard at
work on multiple novels. Every day is a new writing adventure. She is a
fan of all YA/NA fantasy and science fiction.
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