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Magnus already?”
    Okay, my guilt was completely gone. “When I’m ready.
Do you know where the Island of Light is?”
    “Not on this world. I know where the tunnel of
light is, and I’m never going there. I’m afraid I have never seen anything of
Caldaca outside of Akadema.”
    “I need to find someone who knows. I need a way to
get there, too. I need a plan.”
    “You need a minion.”
    I thought about it. It was definitely something a
sorcerer would want, although I didn’t think turning Vactarus back into a bat
was a good idea. My mother saw her children as her minions. “You’re right. Do
you think I can buy one somewhere?” I certainly wasn’t going to grow my own.
    Vactarus gave me an annoyed stare. “ Summon one,” he said, as if I should have thought of that on my own.
    I definitely should have thought of that on my own.
    Merlin returned then with a dead rabbit in his jaws.
Well, I thought it was dead, until it tried to scratch at Merlin’s throat with
its razor-sharp claws. Merlin shook his head until his prey fell still, and
then he hopped up on the chair and set it on the table.
    The food in my stomach rebelled. “Merlin, will you
teach me to summon a beast to help fight Magnus?” I asked.
    “ Do you think you have the mental strength and
inner peace to control a beast ?”
    “Inner peace? That’s a wizard thing.”
    Once again, I could feel his irritation. “ That is
a control thing. You cannot control another creature if you cannot control
yourself. How easily you picked up my guidance today showed me that you have
the skill; you need only to use it .”
    “Then let’s go do it.”
    “ Patience, young sorcerer; the only thing worse
than an angry wolf is a hungry one .” With that, he started eating his
rabbit.
    “I think I’ll just wait outside.” I narrowly escaped
without losing my dinner. I also learned that I would rather conjure something
than hunt my own food.
    For a while, I studied the designs on my wand and
staff. My wand was as elegant and wizard-like as always. My staff, however,
seemed to be a little different than before. The wood was a little smoother, as
if it had been polished. The crystal at the top was also slightly lighter than
the deep red it had been before. Of course, it was sunset, so my light was
starting to fade.
    I thought about what I could do to Magnus with my
staff. The three times I had used it, it didn’t go as planned. Although my wand
only did white magic, it was reliable. Magnus was the most powerful wizard
known, so I knew I couldn’t just defeat him with magic. What made my family so
famous was my mother’s skill in coming up with diabolical plans. I was smarter
than my brothers, which only angered my mother more because I was the least
ambitious. I didn’t want to take over Akadema any more than I wanted to curse
people and sell them the anti-curse at a ridiculous price.
    It wasn’t even that I didn’t know what I was doing.
The first potion I ever had to make was supposed to make someone’s hair fall
out. However, I thought the ingredients were gross, and I was very young at the
time, so I used different ingredients to make an uncontrollable laughing potion
instead.
    Defeating Magnus would not be a matter of who had the
stronger magic. To prove I was a masterful sorcerer, I would have to set an
ingenious trap.

Chapter 6
    By the time Merlin arrived,
only the two full moons provided light. “ Are you prepared ?” he asked. I
nodded. “ Very well. Sit, and focus on the energy inside you. Before you can
conjure a creature of great power, you must be able to control it ,” he
said.
    I didn’t like the sound of that. As I turned my focus
on my energy, Merlin started sniffing at the ground. “What are you looking
for?” He ignored me and began digging something up. I realized what it was an
instant before he dropped a carrot in my lap. “No!”
    “ Rabbits are minor nuisances as long as you avoid
their claws and teeth .”
    That was