Mr. Yelfram led Lea and her parents into his office. Yelfram had already led them on a tour of the school grounds and now tired of walking, they had come to his office for the final part of the orientation. The office was filled with different plants from the ceiling to the desks. Not to mention the odd smells from beakers and the hearth giving the room a down to earth feel. Lea wouldn’t be surprised if Mr. Yelfram was an earth elf.

“This is the first time I’m seeing one up so close,” Candy whispered in her ear. Candy had arrived the day before and they both had moved into their shared room in the dorm. What Lea was trying to get used to with Candy at the moment was how she looked like a 16-year old again. Candy is a fairy. They are of the Fae race as well as the horned, the un-horned and the elves. The elves are the human equivalent of dwarfs, very small in stature in the Fae race. The fairies, taller than the dwarf elves look like teenagers until they reach 500 years of age and from there their physical age starts to race up with their chronological age.

So now Lea turned to her now slightly short best friend, her hair as red as ever and in a braid, her long ears standing out and small patches of fairy dust on her face, arms and feet which she could see since she was wearing a short black dress with a design of wildflowers.

“Same but hey you’re taller than him so that’s a plus, right?”

Candy frowned instantly, “Seriously?”

“I had to, sorry.”

“While short and dwarf jokes are fun, we could start now with getting to know your abilities,” Yelfram said over to the both of them. As they were about to apologize, he held up a hand.

“No need, to live in this realm is to bare with such things,” his eyes slanted a bit, “although, without malice, I suppose it’s fine for now.”

Lea made a very uncomfortable laugh and her parents only sighed. They were all seated now and Yelfram began.

“The reports from your parents say that you, Miss Lea have Quintessence.”

“Just like her father,” Thalius said as he reached over to touch her arm.

“Ah, yes, of course,’ Yelfram said without emotion, “… and Candy has Air as hers.”

“Unfortunately.” Candy remarked.

“Still sour about it at this age?” Yelfram raised an eyebrow and then returned to the notes on his table. “You’ll get over it as you age, you’re not even a 100.” Candy only grumbled as the rest in the room chuckled except Yelfram. He continued, “Candy here seems to be aware of her enchantment ability but not you Lea.”

“Ever since she was young, she’s been able to see the supernatural past the glamour and then after that talk to inanimate objects, then after that psychokinesis,” Rhal spoke.

Yelfram’s eyes got wider.

“A psychic.”

Her parents exclaimed ‘Truly!’ at Yelfram’s statement.

“I always had suspicions, but they are too rare,” Rhal said looking over at Thalius. He nodded at her in return and turned to face Yelfram.

“And you are definite she’s not just someone with Life or energy manipulation and psychokinesis? Having two or somewhat similar abilities is not unheard of.”

“Then we’ll have to see,” Yelfram said as he stood up and walked over to a cabinet and brought out a large crystal ball. He stood in front of Lea now.

“Imagine yourself completely and whole, think of everything that makes you who you are and touch this ball.”

Lea closed her eyes and did as she was told. She thought of her ability to move objects, how astounded her mother was when she could talk to the Tv and use it without the remote and how her first new friend since they moved for the second time was her calculator. She thought of how she could see and sometimes feel the energy emanating from others like they couldn’t hide what they truly are from her. Nothing could. She touched the ball.

Then she became everything and nothing all at once. She could do anything if she wanted. She felt…powerful. Filled, with immense power.

She heard gasps and she opened her eyes. The crystal ball was filled with some sort of blue liquid, completely and the holographic image above it showed her face and the title of her ability.

Psychic.

That’s what she was, and she smiled. Her mother and Candy cupped their mouths while her father grinned. Yelfram just had his mouth open staring at the holographic image and the liquid in the ball.

“You’re a psychic with a lot of quintessence energy,” He said still filled with shock. He then slowly moved to his seat and set the ball on a stand on the desk.

“You’re a special student.” Was all he said finally about her ability and then moved on.

They were leaving his office now and were done with the entire orientation. The last parts after filing in their elements and abilities are checking if the students are able to connect to a familiar. This was done with another crystal ball. Both twenty-year-old women had filled the crystal ball and Yelfram filed Lea in to obtain a familiar from the various creatures at Keldan Academy. He informed them as well that they would get their soul-weapons, weapons in harmony with themselves, in their elemental combat classes. They were given their school schedule and Yelfram was walking them towards the front of the Academy.

That was when Lea felt something and then all of them heard voices and footsteps.

From a separate hallway came two young fae men. Yelfram greeted the horned one with light pink hair and eyes, dark skin and freckles, who seemed to have a soft brotherly smile on his face. He apparently is the student council president.

“Hot,” Candy whispered to her. Hot indeed but that was not who Lea had her eyes on. The horned male standing next to him with his light blue hair and violet eyes, introduced as Licht stared into her. He was the one she felt. They kept staring at each other as her parents and Yelfram talked to the President, Chaddius Preston Whitewall. Lea couldn’t understand what she was feeling but she knew it was a deep connection, affection and longing that she seemed to have for this man that she never even knew. She felt as if the hallway was some other space where the two of them existed, together. When she finally smiled at him, his cold violet eyes looked away. It made Lea doubt. She began to question her sanity.