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Switching places.

Author: Connie
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Kaltain

Leiya

I couldn't sleep almost all night. I was repeatedly waking up at intervals. The excitement of being one step closer to my Nayla was enough to give me butterflies. I was up at the crack of dawn, waiting for him to appear in the center of my chamber. Sure enough, he did.

“Did you even sleep at all?” he feigned surprise as he walked to the chair.

“Yes.” I whispered.

“Lies are distasteful Leiya”

I immediately fell silent, watching him shake his head. When he walked closer to the window, I noticed a book in his hands. A dark looking, uninteresting book.

“Your first lesson,”

He announced as he turned to look at me, holding the book with both hands in front of him.

“Is to teleport yourself outside your chamber.”

He said casually and planted himself onto the chair. He held out the book to me with a straight face. I stared at him, the book and back to him. I was supposed to learn spells from a book? I almost laughed at the idea itself.

I shrugged quietly, s
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