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I woke up and the memories of what had happened the previous day were still very clear. I sat up in bed and looked around the room. I saw a note on my bedside table. "Welcome, I hope we'll be good roommates." It was written in a very nice script. At first I thought a girl had written it, but I knew they would never let a boy and a girl sleep in the same room. Three metres to my left was another double bed that was beautifully made up. Across the way was a fireplace that desperately needed cleaning. I got out of bed and washed my face and hands in the bathroom I had found. It was small, but had everything I needed. I returned to my room and looked at the window. It was wide open and there was a strange bird sitting on the windowsill. He looked at me attentively. He opened his wings and I saw that he had four. He turned around and flew at lightning speed to the forest behind the school grounds. A red feather fell from its plumage onto my bedside table. It was bright red. I got hungry and wanted to go downstairs, but noticed that there was a door in the room that I had not yet opened.

It was the same colour as the bricks on the wall, so it didn't stand out so much. I went to it and left it ajar. I looked through it with my left eye. A boy was standing on a balcony looking through a telescope. He was blushing. I opened the door completely. "Am I interrupting?" I asked. The boy shook his shoulders and dropped the telescope. Intuitively I stretched out my arm and made it float. I felt an electric tension between the telescope and me. Fortunately, the boy had already recovered from the shock and grabbed it out of the air. "That thing is worth a lot of money," he said. He was breathing fast, so I knew he was a bit upset. I felt guilty and looked down. "Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you (which may have been a small lie) and I certainly didn't mean to destroy your telescope." I almost whispered. The boy smiled at me and put down his telescope. He pulled a chair from behind and sat down. 'It doesn't matter, nothing is broken, I got a bit scared, sit down.' He stretched out his hand, a rope came out of his arm at lightning speed and pulled a chair on the other side of the wide balcony towards me. The rope disappeared as quickly as it had come. I sat down. He saw my startled face. "I am Larten and as you have already seen, I am a mummy."

I'm going to be honest, I was expecting something special, but not this. "I'm Jonas and I don't know what I am yet," I said. I felt the blush on my cheeks when I said that. "That's normal for the first few days, they didn't know about me until a month later that I was a mummy when I got here." We chuckled. "But what were you actually looking at, it made you blush well." I continued to change the subject. He smiled at me. "I'm in love with a girl, but I'm afraid she won't like me, I'm a mummy after all, that's why I watch her from a distance." Although he put a smile on his face, I saw a wave of defeat appear in his eyes. "Can I see her?" He handed me the telescope and showed me where to look. "The one on the left is Evy, she is, as you can see, a mermaid. The one sitting on the rock is Camille, now she looks like an ordinary girl, but when she takes off her necklace she changes into her gorgonian form. The one lying in the grass with her dress of leaves is Alina She stole my whole heart. She is a dryad and a powerful one, she can make plants grow almost anywhere and move them to her will." He continued to look at her. It was almost pitiful to see. Suddenly a green light glowed on his chest. He kept looking but said, "Don't be afraid, that's my scarab warning me because a magical creature is approaching, it's probably Morgana." He hadn't spoken yet or she came running out of the bedroom onto the balcony.



"Jonas, do you want to come with me? I'd like to run some tests with you." She looked up at Larten who was trying to hide his telescope behind his back as best he could. "Larten, I've told you so many times that you should just ask her if she likes you or not, you'll never know if she likes you or not by just spying on her all the time." She sighed, turned around and left the room. I followed her out and saw that Larten had also decided to go with us. We descended a spiral staircase and entered a small living room. It was cosy and there was a round table for five. "You will probably live here with Larten and three other girls for a long time. We've put you in this separate house, further from the school and other students, because you're a bit more complicated than an ordinary mage, vampire or werewolf.'she said, as we stepped outside through a large grassy field. The school loomed up behind a few high hills. "So I'm not a mage?" I asked. "No, what you showed us yesterday indicates that you are a different kind of creature, but you will probably spend a lot of time with the mages because you have access to magic," she replied. We arrived in front of a large gate. Two stone griffins stood proudly beside it. She clicked her tongue in her mouth and the gate opened.

We entered a small garden. It smelt horrible. There were plants of different colours, but each gave off its own strong smell. There were white flowers, black and red ones, and many other colours. It would probably have been beautiful there, with a clothes peg on your nose. We entered a small medieval tower and descended a stone spiral staircase. The corridor was lit by a few torches so there was little to see. In some places they were even extinguished and we had only the light of Larten's scarab. We eventually found one of the most modern rooms I had ever seen. The floor tiles gave off light and the walls seemed to be made of some kind of special glass. We were in the middle of a lake, because everywhere you looked there was water. Crabs and mussels had already claimed the underside of the outer walls and the glasses needed cleaning, but everything you needed was there. A modern kitchen with a separate freezer and a modern lounge were also in the room, but otherwise it was empty. The room was at least 50m².

"Okay, we're here because these walls are made of a certain kind of diamond" I was shocked when I heard that and swore not to dirty the walls quickly "so that they don't let magic through. In other words, we can test you here without you blowing up the whole building. Morgana said. Larten had already laid down on the bench and was enjoying the view. "Jonas, come stand in front of me." I did as she asked. Larten straightened up and now looked in my direction to see if anything special would happen. Morgana handed me an iron rod and instructed me to levitate it. I concentrated on the feeling I had in my fingers when I levitated the pen. My hands started tingling again and there were the little electric sparks again. I tried to control them and concentrated only on the rod. I let go and it stayed nicely in the air. I went one step further and tried to make it go up. It trembled, but all in all it went up slowly. "If I use more power now, maybe it will go faster." I thought. I took a deep breath and sent more power through my hands. Electric sparks now began to jump out of my hands more uncontrollably, but the bar moved faster. "Benjamin, you have to stop, you're overheating the bar," Larten suddenly shouted. Morgana took notes and said nothing. I looked at the bar that was now floating high in the room and saw that it was indeed starting to turn red. I let it float towards me and as it hovered in front of me, I released my magnetic grip so that it fell to the floor. Waves of heat flowed from it, so I took a step back. "You can make metal objects float but after a while they get overheated. Interesting, let's try something else," Morgana said. She was almost glowing with joy. Larten looked worried, I had no idea why.