How to Save a Life
Prologue-
All I wanted was to be part of what was going on- what that woman had dragged my sister into.
Every day I only heard things about how the woman was going to bring the Enlightened ones out of their despair and bring us into a golden age of unimaginable power. Schala and I both felt the restless Black Winds of magic, but not once had they listened to us. Slowly, our mother turned into someone else. She was someone controlled by that monster she had found under the sea, wanting to use its power for our own good.
She had good intentions.
It did not.
Even Schala didn't believe me when I told her about our mother and the monster she had become. She blamed all of it on our late father.
…I miss him, now. He's the only one who listened to me, and now he was gone. But I still have Alfador and, whenever she's not busy with the Mammon Machine and that woman, Schala.
The gurus- Gaspar, Belthazar, and Melchoir- are going to let me come with them to see the Ocean Palace during construction. They think that seeing the new power will awaken my own magic, because I don't seem to have any.
Not once did they ask me if I wanted to have magic.
It's not that I'm shy, it's just that I don't want to end up like Schala, being used to power and prepare everything. I don't want to be used like that- like a slave.
First that monster takes our mother. Then, my sister.
And now, as I sneak in once again to witness the unveiling and to see Schala, the monster takes me away from my home.