Chapter 0485

Jesse and Rafe blink and stare around, confused.

But Alvez claps his hands together, breaking the tension and ignoring Tony's question. "Let's move on. I'd like an update, please, regarding the status of your magic and if there has been any progress over the break. Davis, I'm assuming by your rather irritable protest regarding my teaching methods that you've had no progress on your abilities?"

"No, I've made no progress on my fully formed abilities, which I'd say is unsurprising," Tony says, dry. "What do you want me to do, take deeper breaths underwater?"

I laugh a little, unable to help it, and he shoots a smirk my way.

Alvez ignores it, turning to Jesse and Rafe, who report that they have not.

When the professor turns his eyes to me, I bite my lip a bit, torn about what to say. Alvez's eyes shine. "I'm sensing, Clark," he murmurs. "That you do have an update."

And then, even though I don't trust him, I decide to spill. Mostly because this is the only place we can really talk about magic as a group, where we can keep it a secret.

light stuff on fire," I say, giving a casual

Rafe bursts out, sitting up

know?" I ask, turning to frown at

sputters, Jesse looking around him at me likewise

I forgot to tell you," I say, grimacing a little.

do, what I lit on fire, how I did it. But Alvez claps his hands together, again drawing attention back to

gives me a little encouraging push down the bond, and then I quickly tell the story of accessing my magic, and concentrating on the wood in the fireplace, and drawing on my magic to heat the wood to the point where it burst into flames. I'm quite careful to keep Jackson out of the story, though, implying

asks, raising

eventually, remembering how Jackson, Seraphina and I spent the majority of the morning experimenting with how fast I

reaching for a notebook on his desk and tearing out a page,

I murmur, sitting up

putting the crumpled paper on the desk and looking down at it. Almost as one, everyone else in the room

sudden pressure,

this, Princess, he murmurs, proud.

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