Pat 2

So I was too impatient to wait for next week to post this, so I decided to give smaller pieces.
This is the rest of the prolog, hope you like it!

There were so many questions I wanted answered: How had they found me? What was the academy like? Where was it? Why didn't anyone else in my family have powers? Which element did I have?

Professor Mason answered my questions as best as he could.

Element Workers had a certain aura about them, not 'the glow', as only those who had come in contact with the Heaven's Gem had, but a kind of shimmer that only the most powerful Element Workers could sense. Apparently my councilor was an Element Worker.

The academy was full of youth of all ages and would be just like school, but with magic powers.

It was in Washington D.C.

The bloodlines and who got the powers were complicated but the administration thought that if a woman had originally touched the Heaven’s Gem only females of her direct decent would receive the powers. My father must have been the descendant. Which meant my little ten-year-old sister would have the powers too once she turned twelve. Professor Mason didn't know which power I had. Each new student had to go through some kind of test before they found out. Sometimes it took months to find out. I secretly hoped I didn't have the earth element. Out of the four it seemed the least exiting. 

Finally Professor Mason simply told me I would learn everything I wanted to know at the academy, and that if my parents allowed me to go, I would leave tomorrow night. At first I couldn't believe it. Tomorrow night? I would be moving 18 hundred odd miles away without saying goodbye to my friends.

Professor Mason left my mother with his number and told us to call him once we made up our minds.

Before he left he told me, "the I.M.T.Y is not the only organization that is interested in finding young Element Workers, keep in mind though that the other is not quite as friendly."

I didn't understand this fully but it sent shivers up my spine.