Page 75 of Is It Wrong to Escape My Fate?
What circumstances? Like the fact both had confessed their affection for me, and while Claude wasn’t aware of Eli’s, Eli was very much aware of Claude’s. It still didn’t affect their potential friendship. But of course I didn’t know Claude that well yet, so who knows how he’d react if it was the other way around?
Maybe react terribly, if only because he tried to claim me for himself last week. I hoped I was wrong.
“Nervous?” he whispered as the professors prepared for whatever needed to be done for the assessment.
“A little?” I couldn’t predict how the test would affect my situation. This might very well be the end of me.
It began to sink in.
If the test somehow told the truth aboutme …
Claude reached for my hand, linking our fingers together. “It’s gonna be fine, baby girl. I’m here. Eli’s here too, I guess.”
“I’ve always been around,” Elias groused, annoyed but with a playful tone. I giggled at their nonsense.
At that moment, more staff members arrived, surrounding our group of students. For a moment, it felt like we’d been enclosed in some ritual circle, ready for a sacrifice.
Just kidding. Mostly.
“Begin,” Professor Strom exclaimed, raising his arms in unison with the other senior mages and chanting incomprehensible words.
A bright light surrounded us.
The pull of magic wasimmense.My breath caught in my throat, the pressure on my chest so strong as if I was breathing underwater. I tried to fight off the pull even though I knew I shouldn’t. In my effort, I removed my hand from Claude’s grasp to grab my head with both hands, resisting the spell so, so hard despite a deeper part of me screaming tofucking stop.
Was this really the end for me? Why was this magic overwhelming me so much? What was wrong with me?
Nothing.
Then why was it trying toget into my head?
Get out!
Get out!
GET.OUT.
And then it stopped.
“Bea?” Dahlia called. I snapped my eyes open; her face was etched with deep concern. “You okay?”
I gulped to wet my suddenly dry throat. “I’m good. What happened?”
Dahlia glanced around before turning back to me. “Well, they cast a mass diagnostics spell, I think.”
Diagnostic? Thatwas an information-type spell? Then what the hell did I feel?
“The color of your glow represents your affinity,” Samuel’s voice reached my ears as I stared at my hands. “Red for Fire, blue for Water, yellow for Air, green for Earth. And the rare orange for Recovery, or purple for Divine.”
I stared at my hands some more.
“What does it mean when it’s white?” Claude asked, glowing a bright white. Now that Ireallylooked around, everyone glowed, even Dahlia, who I didn’t notice glowed neon green.
“You have multiple affinities, I guess?” Elias answered him, who, as expected, had a warm, red glow. “Youarethe Hero of the Kingdom, after all.”
Right. Main character energy. So what did it mean when I glowednothing?
The spell didn’t work on me.
