As I reach the dining room, I notice the tables have been put up after lunch. I didn't get a clear look at the floor during lunch but now looking at it, I can't believe how beautiful it is. It's made up of stain glass and concrete with the stain glass creating a design throughout the floor. The design makes a spiral around the floor, starting in the middle. I stare at the ground, infatuated by the patterns, the green blending in with red, the gold highlighting the sides of each shapes, the white background enlightening the whole series of colors. I continue to look for another minute and then set up shop.

As I begin to read the first paragraph, I am stunned at the fact that the textbook is in Elvic, my native language. I feel comfort in the familiar melodic, flowing nature of my language. I gleefully reread the first paragraph and start to center myself. I close my eyes and start to recite the lesson instructions in my head. I feel my eyes go white and start to glow, I felt myself start to float up. I shudder as a rush of energy enters my body. It feels so great, so passionate, that I almost stopped the recitation of the spell. The energy begins to fill me up, and through my close eyelids, I can see a glow. I don't know where it is from, but the glow seems to surround me. I feel amazing, powerful, even unstoppable. I even let out a giggle, this energy, this power, it fills me up so joyously. Suddenly, pain explodes throughout my body as the energy leaves my body. My eyes fly open and I fall to the ground with a harsh thud. Pain floods through my body, mostly targeting my left side. I wince and roll on my side.

As I manage to sit up, I hear a gasp. I turn to the entrance to see Josh, Ma'lakah, Marcus, and Lucas looking at me with similar looks of shock. I am mortified; I fell in front of the people I want to be my friends. Josh's expression changes from shock to utterly impressed. He starts laughing and jumping up and down.

'Wow, Elfy, I knew you were cool, but this just puts the icing on the cake!!!'

Confused, I turn around and see that I completed the lesson. However, I completed it a little too well. The whole other side of the dining room is covered with lavender, echinacea, roses, yarrow, and sedum. Lavender loops around the exit doors, while the echinacea lines up with the floorboards. The black and red roses are shaped into hearts on the wall, the white yarrow filling the inside of the rose hearts. The sedum of different colors is littered on the floor, each color in a separate group. I stand up and I walk to the other side of the dining room. Footsteps follow after me as I lightly touch the tips of red and white sedum petals. I can't believe I've done this. I don't understand why I did this, but it's astounding. Someone grabs my shoulder and turns me around.

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'This is amazing, how are you only Level 4, Elfy?' Ma'lakah excitedly exclaims. From the corner of my eye, I see Lucas and Josh play fighting in the yellow sedum flower, while Marcus runs through the pink sedum flowers. I sheepishly grin and giggle.

'I have no idea, Ma'lakah, but even I am shocked!' We both laugh, and he hugs me. I hesitate and then hug him back. We pull away from each other and run towards the other direction. I see Ma'lakah tackle Marcus into the sedum. I crash into Lucas and Josh, who both turn to me.

'Oops, sorry guys.' They look at each other and tackle me together. I yelp as Josh pelts me with pillows he conjured up. Lucas tries to pick me up to protect me from Josh's pillow torture, Ma'lakah and Marcus are sitting next to each other and fighting each other.

'What's going on here?' a voice echos throughout the dining room. We all turn to see Rufus, standing in the doorway, his arms crossed and his brows furrowed. Lucas carefully puts me down and rushes towards Rufus. Before Rufus could even process what is happening, Lucas grabs Rufus and throws him into the flowers.

'Shut up, Rufus and join the fun, ya asshole!' He dives after Rufus and we can hear the growls from that area. Flowers fly out in the air along with legs and hair.

Josh and I start dying laughing. I take a pillow from Josh and slam it against Josh's side. Josh falls and pulls my leg to cause me to fall on top of him. We both laugh so hard, we start snorting. I look at Josh, who is still laughing, and I smile. Today is slowly turning into the best day of my life. I get off of Josh and pull him up.

'Hey, Lucas and Rufus, come here!!' Josh calls them over. Lucas has a scratch on his left cheek while Rufus has a bite on his arm. They are both laughing, and I am shocked on how handsome Rufus looks smiling. I stare at him as Josh motions Ma'lakah and Marcus over. Rufus meets my eyes and flashes a devilish grin. Immediately, heat rises to my cheeks and I feel my face turn red. I look away and ran after Josh. We all sit in the middle of the stained glass spiral.

'Elfy, How did you manage to do something amazing?' Josh asks me. Everyone around us silently looks at me, waiting for an answer.

'Yeah, kompis, I want to know as well.' Ma'lakah jumps in, everyone else nodding in agreement.

I smile faintly as I gather my words.

"To be honest, I have no idea how I can conjure these beautiful flowers." I look at everyone, meeting their eyes. They stare at me, as if they do not believe in what I am saying. The silence is so tense, a sound could destroy us. Lucas opens his mouth to respond but is thrown across the room. We all turn around to see who could have done it only for us to be thrown too.