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right to accuse me of being a bad friend, but it is lost in a sudden rush of warmth for her. She is so pretty, and fluffy and endearing, really just like the kitten of her nickname, and only a complete monster could stay mad at her for some innocent mischief. Even though I know exactly what is happening to me and why, I can’t stop melting.
    I really don’t know why I deserve a friend who has the power to manipulate me through magic like that. Or rather, I suppose I do. Paying for the sins of long ago.
    “Let’s go back to bed, Kitty-cat,” I mutter. “It’s cold.”
    She pounces on the pet name as a sign of forgiveness, and all her cockiness returns. “But you haven’t yet told me what she said, Anne! She must have said something, or you wouldn’t know I signed your name—or did you peek? Anne, you must tell me, did she open it? What did you do?”
    I grin. “Back to bed, Kitty-cat,” I repeat.
    “Anne!” she wails. “It’s not fair to hold out on me, it was my plan!”
    Charm or no Charm, there are limits to my tolerance, and somehow I feel better about the whole thing, watching Kitty hop from slippered foot to slippered foot like that.
    “Goodnight and sweet dreams, Lady Emmeline.” I am back inside the dormitory before she can pounce on me.
    I snuggle up happily under the covers. I will need to be careful the next few days, while Kitty tries to magically wheedle it out of me, but she has the attention span of a kitten as well as the same general appearance, and I will be safe soon enough. Esther, clearly, won’t tell. She’s a sport… an absolute trooper. As well as truly the prettiest girl in the school.
    She knows my name, now.
    I sigh happily to myself, turn over, and slip into pleasant dreams.

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    P EGASI AND P REFECTS : S AMPLE

    PEGASI AND PREFECTS

    A Scholars and Sorcery Novel

    by Eleanor Beresford
    www.eberesford.com

    The first sight of Fernleigh Manor leaves me with a lump in my throat that is not altogether love, nor altogether excitement. It's a beautiful school, with the smooth green games fields, the pool reflecting back the sky’s pearly grey. The Tudor School House and the newer wings enclose the rose-scattered courtyard, already teeming with buses and girls in navy uniforms. Against the brighter green of the lawns, the deeper green of ancient hedges form a boundary around the grounds.
    They are less of a barrier, of course, if you arrive from the sky.
    I love to fly, especially on the back of a pegasus. Oh, I enjoy riding the earth-bound unicorns and even earthly horses, of course, and I love riding the dagger-minded carnivorous steeds like dragonlings and gryphons with which my mother has such sympathy. There's still simply nothing like being on the back of my own pegasus, his great wings beating the air and cutting the wind around me, his wild gentle mind wrapped around mine.
    The courtyard is not as empty as I hoped when I set out so early. The evening coach carrying the second and largest group of girls, is yet to arrive, but the cars parked on the drive are spilling out schoolgirls and luggage. I can already make out groups of girls standing in groups, exchanging greetings and gossip, while their parents stand patiently back, waiting to be remembered and receive their nonchalant farewells. No girl past the first form would be so silly as