Mathilda, SuperWitch by Kristen Ashley

Author:Kristen Ashley [Ashley, Kristen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Kristen Ashley
Published: 2012-01-04T01:42:59+00:00

16 May

Magical suspension lifted.

The W.C. can’t find Agatha Darling and since they now consider me “registered”, feel it may be too dangerous to my person to interfere with my training. (Great.)

The test wasn’t the easiest thing I’ve ever done (not by a long shot) but no one struck me with lightning either.

But get this:

Am to be registered with the Council as:

Class: Sage, Level: Hazardous.

I mean, what’s that supposed to mean? Level: Hazardous?

* * * * *

This is unprecedented. Or so Mavis said, over and over again, to everyone (they were all awake and all at The Gables and all waiting for our return) at about four thirty in the morning –about six hours after I wanted to be in bed.

This is also further proof that I am The Mathilda not just A Mathilda.

So, even though I don’t exactly want the word to get out (as have enough troubles without verified Chosen One status announced to all and sundry), it’s to be printed in the monthly W.C. newsletter as a matter of record.

I’m fucked.

In oh so many ways.

Of course, being classed as a Sage was B-I-G: Big.

True Sages were people like Prunella, who were three hundred years old and had seen it, done it and had about three billion t-shirts.

But since my magic was “off the scales” and they didn’t have anything else to class me, they put me at Sage.

The Lady didn’t seem too happy. (Gotta keep an eye on her.)

The W.C. is going to consider a new ranking system, of course, because even though I was officially a Sage, I was lacking the experience to be a “true Sage”.

“Perhaps we can call her a ‘Neophyte Sage’,” Endora offered (somewhat sarcastically, if you ask me).

I think I’ve told you how I feel about the word “Neo” – I certainly didn’t want it connected to me.

* * * * *

Confused?

Let me help:

Young witches start serious Magical Training somewhere within the year they start their period.

Witch Moms know when their daughters are about to “become women” (magic, nature, woman’s intuition, etcetera). So they’ll plan the training to begin either a few months before or after the first cycle (depending on family tradition).

This meant that by my age, the Honeycutt tradition and the time my period started, I should have already had 20 years of training.

You start at Tenderfoot (all witches before their periods are given the class of Tenderfoot –they have powers, even experiment with them, but are not yet taught to harness them in any real way, like being taught to speak but not learning to read until much later).

Then the Rankings (or Classes) go like this:

Level One: Practitioner (at start of training or at start of your monthly cycle)

Then you move through the upper levels of:

Level Two: Proficient (somewhere in your twenties/thirties)

Advanced Magic (or Magical License – when you’re allowed to create your own spells and use them or have your own Spellbounds and guard them without guidance):

Level Three: Adept (Su)

Level Four: Mistress (where Viv and Mom were – very

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