Tessili Academy by Robin Stephen

Author:Robin Stephen
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: magic, dragons, epic fantasy, sorcery, high fantasy, female protagonist, fantasy novella

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Elle, Jey and Kae walked into their rooms together, white skirts swishing, tessili darting in the air around their heads. Jey closed her eyes and took a deep breath as the door latched behind them. They’d made it through the day, at last.

Kae, looking dreamy, wandered towards her easel. She stopped before it and stood considering the half-finished painting there as if she’d never seen it before.

Elle headed straight for the couch and flopped onto the cushions. Now she gazed at Kae with a look of haunted horror. “When are you going to tell Kae? You’re going to put the spell on her tessila, too, aren’t you?”

Kae’s tessila, a bright speck of green in the air, swept up to perch on the edge of the canvas. Jey sighed and took her normal seat on the opposite end of the couch. A hairbrush lay on the table. She seemed to recall an endless stretch of evenings, of brushing out Elle’s hair, of weaving it into a braid, of tying the braid off with a golden ribbon.

She shuddered and faced her friend. “Elle,” she said, “there’s more.” Jey herself had managed to avoid using a spritzer all day. She’d seen Elle use one several times. She now suspected it was the effect of the spritzer’s drug that Nylan’s shot had eradicated. “Give me your hand,” she said.

With a little grimace, Elle sat up. She leaned forward, setting her cool fingers in Jey’s.

Jey closed her eyes. She tried not to think overly hard about what she was doing. What she knew about magic was accessible to her now, but also dim, somehow. It was as if those memories were behind a screen of some kind, comprehensible only through use. She could have cast the passive shield spell on Kae’s tessila in a heartbeat, but she couldn’t have explained to Elle how to do the same.

Now, she tried to feel inside her friend’s body, comparing it to what she could feel of herself. Over the course of the day, she’d become increasingly aware of a problem. If the spritzer drug blocked her access to certain memories and Nylan’s drug restored those memories, she had a finite amount of time. Tonight, an orderly would come into her bedroom. He’d set his hand on her forehead, watch the rise and fall of her chest. Then he would mist the air above her with the drug that would make her forget.

She couldn’t let it happen. The very thought of it made her skin prickle with terror.

Jey spoke to Elle, making her voice low and gentle. “You can make new memories, now, but you’re blocked from your old ones. It’s because of the spritzer, the drug we inhale several times a day.”

Elle nodded. Above them, the flashnode went off. Kae, across the room, went briefly still.

Jey tried to focus more deeply on her friend. “I can’t get more syringes. It was only the sheerest dumb luck I ever got one in the first place. Which means, we need another way.

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