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hall and raised his arms. My
skin prickled as I realised he was using magic. As he
slowly lowered his arms, the atmosphere inside the hall
rose, the torches died down and the lone sound of a flute
rang throughout the hall. The air was charged with
tension, and beautiful music filtered from somewhere
unseen. Flutes, cellos and a lone acoustic guitar rose and
fell together in a magical harmony.
Just as I was beginning to think that this wasn’t so bad,
a blindfold was slipped over my eyes.
“Sorry,” Jett whispered in my ear. “Souls are blind and
so are you.”
He moved away and I heard him murmur the same
thing to Dena.
Now very disorientated, I stood very still and held my
arms out, lest I bump into anyone.
I heard the others move away from me. My fingers
picked at the blindfold and the music continued to play,
but the knot wouldn’t come loose, and I let my hands
drop.
I would play it by their rules, but I would not, could
not, dance.
Instead, I began to walk. Across the hall, through my
classmates. I should’ve been buffered by the others, but I
moved through them unhindered.
I could sense someone doing exactly the same thing,
heading straight towards me. Turns out my soul mate had
had the same idea.
I stretched out, entwining my fingers with theirs. For
one crazy moment I thought it was Dena until I realised
how rough the hands I was holding were.
Suddenly, I felt flames race down my arms. They
ignited on our entwined fingers, and I felt their magic
respond in kind. The power and ferocity of this
unexpected magic took us both by surprise and before I
could control it, the music stopped, and Iain spoke again.
“Mages, you’ve found your soul mates…
Congratulations.”
The blindfold around my eyes unravelled and fell to the
ground. I blinked, disorientated by the sudden light in the
room, and realised I was holding the hand of the dark
haired boy with the fire eyes, flames of orange and green
burning together over our fingertips.
For the tiniest second, something sparked in his eyes as
he looked at me, but then he dropped my hand, our
combined fire extinguishing immediately and I knew I’d
imagined it.
“Pairs line up.” Iain continued.
Everyone else, I now noticed, had also gathered in
pairs. Eleanora was paired with a young man with blonde
hair, who she obviously recognised.
Netalia spoke to them quietly and then moved onto the
next pair; Dena and the red headed girl she’d run the
course with yesterday. All of the other soul mate pairs
were standing close together, but mine stood away from
me.
Netalia reached us, and I suddenly realised I was about
to find out his name. As she looked upon us both standing
together, her eyes widened slightly, and she looked over
her shoulder at Iain who stood immobile. After a few
seconds, she looked back at us and smiled nervously.
“Phoenix and Sky, congratulations on finding one
another.”
“Phoenix, huh?” I asked, speaking for the first time
since the blindfold had been removed. He barely glanced
at me. “A legendary bird of flame is a pretty awesome
namesake.”
“Maybe,” he replied simply.
I frowned but didn’t respond. My heart was beating
rapidly and I felt slightly sick, but it was over, the dancing
was over, and I could relax.
Outside, the sun began to set, bathing the hall in orange
light. I chanced a glance at Phoenix and noticed his eyes
were exactly the same colour as the sun burning on the
horizon.
And I realised that my own heart was burning in sync
with both of them.
~Chapter Five~
    The bell didn’t have a chance to ring once before I was
out of bed. As soon as my feet hit the floor, I hooked my
feet under the bed frame, crossed my arms over my chest
and began to do as many sit ups as I could. Larni entered
the room just as I began to do push ups.
    “What are you doing?” she asked, setting my breakfast
platter on the table.
“Next time I run that course, I’m not giving up in it,” I
told her, standing