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happy to hear she is doing well where she is.”
    “She is doing well. I can tell. She looks very happy and very…proud.” Yasra smiled. “I can’t believe it. I’m doing all this majic. Me. A non.”
    “You were never a non. You were just working yourself up so much about it, with the pressure you were under to perform, it’s no wonder you were blocked.”
    “What do you know about the pressure I was under?” she said edgily.
    He reached out and touched her, a soft caress on her face. “I can feel it every time we touch. Your parents have scarred you deeply. And I’m very sorry for that.”
    “What burns me about this is that they are—“
    There was a loud banging at the door.
    “Yasra! Open the door!”
    Bess shrank away at the sound of her mother’s voice. Yasra reached out a hand to soothe her friend. “There’s nothing to be afraid of,” she said.
    “Your parents are very powerful majji, Yas. Of course there’s something to be afraid of!”
    “Not with Dendri here,” she said. And as soon as the words were out of her mouth she knew they were the truth. It was emanating from him into her. He would protect her with his very last breath if he had to.
    Yas went to open the door. Her mother exploded into the room, a burst of wind blowing in behind her. It was reflective of her mother’s excitement that she was not entirely composed in her powers.
    “Darling, darling girl! We are so proud of you!” her mother effused, taking Yasra into her arms and hugging her tightly. Uncomfortable with this sudden show of affection, Yas shrugged her mother off.
    “Hello, Mother. Father.” Her father had entered the room in her mother’s wake. He came forward and gave her an awkward pat on the shoulder.
    “Dear girl. You’ve made us so proud,” he said, clearing his throat with a harrumph, as if he were getting choked up.
    “Oh! Dendri! We didn’t see you there. But of course you would be here,” her mother said with a sharp clap of her hands. “Our daughter, a Gestalt. We knew, absolutely knew we had given birth to a child of power! We planned it so carefully after all. But we never imagined you would be this powerful!”
    “Mother, I’m not—“
    “What house are you from darling?” she asked in a rush.
    “Necromay,” Yas replied softly.
    “Oh. Oh well that’s all right. That pales in comparison to what you will be able to do with the power of a Gestalt. You may be a late bloomer, but my oh my, did you bloom. And as for all that nonsense yesterday, we’ll just forget all about that.”
    “Oh, you mean that nonsense where you threatened to cut me off if I didn’t produce some kind of majic at the tests today?” Yasra snapped.
    “Well…you see we had no choice dear. We had to motivate you. And, well, it worked.”
    “It didn’t work, Mother. You had nothing to do with it! If Dendri hadn’t touched me we’d have never known and I would have been living my life quietly as a non.”
    “A non! Our daughter? Never,” her father said gruffly.
    “Illa. Orto. I believe your daughter has had quite enough of your presence for today,” Dendri said to her parents, moving in to loom protectively over her.
    “But…” Her mother laughed nervously as she looked into the wintery glare of Dendri’s eyes. “We were hoping to go out to celebrate.”
    “Oh there will be a celebration,” Dendri said. “But you will not be a part of it.”
    “Oh! Well! I…I don’t know what to say! This is most unpleasant. Surely you don’t mean to cut us,” her mother said with an uncomfortable smile.
    “Surely we do,” Dendri said. “Please leave. Yasra will contact you when and if she wants to.”
    “But…but…”
    “Leave Mother,” Yasra said firmly.
    Her mother released an awkward laugh. Then she said, “I can see the excitement of the day is getting to you. We’ll come back when you’re feeling better.”
    “You’ll come back when she invites you back,” Dendri said coldly.
    Her mother edged