Kyle would be leaving Thornberry in 3 days, and he didn't even need to start packing. Kyle had a total wardrobe of 4 pairs of pants, 5 shirts, and various underclothing. Wearing the same clothes for a few days was not an issue. Kathy had gotten her magic proficiency tested in Vegaville, so she knew what Kyle would need to do. 

The first step would be to find the Ministry of Magic. The MoM was where magic proficiency test were conducted and magic cards were given out. 

The second step was to perform the test with the crystal ball. This part used some item of unknown origin that would form clouds inside of it to indicate what types of magic someone was good at, and the clouds would glow a certain level of brightness for how good they were. It was generally accepted that those were the types of magic someone would have for the rest of their life but the level of ability could change to become bright. Most people started with dim and went to normal after finishing their time in the mage school. 

The third part was to provide the necessary information to get the magic card. The magic card contained someone's name, birthday, magic types, and their brightness level. A birth certificate was needed, and Elena had one of them for Kyle, so they were fine. 

Kyle was worried about the 2nd step because he could use all magic and was great at it too. He did not know what would happen when 6 colors showed in the crystal ball. 

'Probably instantly get accepted into the Order of Wizards.' Kyle though, but it was unlikely. He would try to hide his mana and see what happens. 

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With 2 days before leaving, Kyle went to the library to try and get a book about magic, but without the magic card he was not allowed. Kyle tried to convince Mr. Reese to let him see one because he had known him for so long, but Mr. Reese did not cave. After this, Kyle went to the Drought home. 

When Kyle went to see Claire, she could not keep herself off of him. 

"I thought you were fine with me leaving?" Kyle asked her as she held him from behind.

"I lied." Claire was actually not fine with him going. Claire was sneaky, just like when she pretended to not know how to cast [Fireball]. 

"But Claire, I'll be back in less than a week." It would only be a few days, and Claire knew it.

"That's too long." Claire was not letting go. 

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"Okay how about this." Kyle tried to look back at Claire behind him, and she looked at his face from behind. 

"How about I stay here overnight, that way when I go home tomorrow night you can just remember the whole day I spent here." Kyle thought it sounded like a good deal, he would be using a whole 24 hours of his time to be in close proximity to Claire. 

"Yes! That will work!" Claire happily agreed to that and allowed Kyle to ask Kathy, who agreed. Kyle then went to ask Elena, and she agreed too. Dave was a little upset that it did not include him, but there would be nowhere for him to sleep, and Claire did not have the unhealthy obsession with him. 

Kyle did not do anything special with Claire during the whole time he stayed over, and Claire didn't try anything strange until they were headed to sleep. 

The couch was made out to be more like a bed a placed in Claire room against the wall. It was not a heavy couch, so Paul and Kathy moved it easily enough while giggling about it not being a real sleepover unless they slept in the same room. 

"Hey Kyle, why can't you sleep in my bed?" Claire asked him as they tried to sleep. 

"There isn't enough room Claire. I would fall out." Claire's bed was not large, but truthfully it could probably hold the both of them if they squeezed together, which Kyle was not going to do. 

"But if we sleep together, we dream together." Claire had another one of her sparkling eyes moments as she looked at Kyle across the room. 

"I think that still applies if we are just in the same room." Kyle was not going to be sleeping with Claire though, he had the couch and was going to use it. 

"Really?" Claire asked, a little skeptical. 

"Oh yeah, when you wake up tomorrow, just tell me what your dream was and I will tell you if I was in it too." Kyle closed his eyes and tried to sleep.

"Okay!" Then Claire tried to sleep too. 

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When the two of them woke up, Claire told Kyle about her dream and Kyle just repeated it back to her saying that he was there too.

She totally believed him. 

They ate breakfast and did normal stuff for the rest of the day and Kyle left when it got a little dark outside. 

The day after that, Elena and Kyle left with the merchants to travel to Vegaville.