1Prologue

It was the middle of summer when I found out. Found out that all the old stories were true, and that I was a part of them.

At least that's what my mother believes. I've known the stories were true for years. What I didn't know was that I was going to get shipped off to boarding school, now that I was sixteen and old enough to " understand and handle the great power and responsibilities of being a priestess in the Order" as my mother says. Yeah, I know I think she had seen those Spider Man movies to many times. To tell the truth I've been handling the great power and responsibility since I was 8. One night I snuck out of bed and tried to make the door of light appear like in mother's bedtime stories. Surprisingly it worked and I've been going there ever since. It took me a while to figure out that I had to space the trips apart so that I wouldn't get sick. But now I try to go once a month, though that has become complicated because mom has been keep a very close watch on me so I haven't been able to sneak away. When I get the chance though I can't wait to lay in garden and wander around and discover new places to hang out.

When my mother told me that the Realms and the Order were real I was tempted to tell her. But she said that I was going to be taught to enter the Realms on my own at the end of my training, so I figured me already being able to would throw things off course a little. The only surprise and new information giving to me during my mothers big speech was that I was going to go to Spence Academy, the old girls school were the notorious Gemma Doyle went to school along with many other great women from the order both before and after the Rebirth.