I hit the floor, blinking hard as pain flared along the back of my head. I found my sister leaning over me, shouting something I couldn’t hear. Someone pushed her aside, the world still entirely quiet as Orion came into view, taking my hand so his magic came flooding into my body. I inhaled in shock as his power blended with mine and he dispelled the wall of silence I’d cast around myself, so the sound of the class rushed back into my ears. “-the hell happened?” Orion demanded, his hand still firmly locked around mine and his eyes alight with worry.
