Do you have any idea how little control we have up here? Anything goes wrong and we’ve got no recourse. This mode of travel is complete insanity.” I bit the inside of my cheek.

I am a wizard,” he muttered. “Magicians do parlor tricks.

Why did you wear heels? How are you supposed to fight a gargoyle in what you’re wearing?

There’s another story I know. This one doesn’t have any swords or visions. This one is about a boy who found a girl during a terrible time.” “How did it turn out?” “I don’t know, but I do know the boy doesn’t regret it. Not a minute. No matter how it turns out. Because he’s been waiting for this girl from the time she was born, and if it takes another thousand years to meet her again, he’d wait again. Whatever it takes.

The Lady may favoryou, but at least I am in charge of my own destiny.

but remember, nothing comes without a price. Our paths are not mapped; they’re made.

Technology doesn’t change people’s basic needs or their natures.

If you keep waiting for the right time, it may never happen. Sometimes you have to make the most of the time you have.

Marilynn...passed out black cases to everyone. I opened mine to find an iPad inside. Several candidates whistled. Despite my agitated state, it impressed me too. Maybe wizard school wasn’t going to be as lame as I had thought.“All of your schedules and assignments will be done on these,” Marilynn explained. “The whole school is on these. We’ve had them for awhile now.

Soft sun shone down on a misty cathedral at the opposite end of a football-field length courtyard. The cathedral had a long pointed tower with beautiful rose and ivory stained glass windows. Pink-petal flowers and deep green ivy climbed the stones from the ground to it’s roof. A large fountain stood in the middle of the courtyard with water falling from several lion’s heads. Between the misty air and rolling slope of the earth, the grounds reminded me of a long lost fairy tale.