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Chapter One
The Wizard
I had a good
forty winks going when the teacher’s drone filtered into my brain. After he
said the word ‘wizard’, I sat up and took notice. He saw me and scrunched his
face into a sour-lemon grimace. I didn’t bother raising my hand.
“You said magicians
use fake crap to do their tricks, make elephants disappear, whatever. But you
don’t know that.”
“Cord.” His
voice held a warning. But like I cared.
I flipped a
negligent hand at the world. “You can’t explain all of it, not without proof.”
“Show me proof
it exists, then.”
“Man, that’s
like saying prove your innocence.”
The teacher
narrowed his eyes as if numbering my days on earth. Someone behind me
snickered.
“Cord, the
science is incontrovertible,” the teacher said from between clenched teeth. “The
physics alone make it impossible—”
