The room went completely quiet after I said that.
Marla looked at me with intensity.
Zoe and Lia had just stepped fully inside, evading the dirt column I had just created. Lia looked at it, then at the ceiling, then around at the general atmosphere of the room.
"So... is this like... today's classroom?" She asked.
"No Lia." Zoe pointed at the banner. "I think it's more like a... welcoming thing."
Marla didn't acknowledge either of them.
"What do you mean you have no innate talent?" She was already rising from her chair. "You used magic I don't recognize. You activated the spell without Eira's sequence. And then you tell me you have no talent?" Her eyes narrowed. "You're human, right?"
The teachers around the room had started moving closer without making it obvious.
"Uhmmm." I thought about it. "Yes?"
