Liam lunged for his pendant, only to be greeted by cold hard stone blocking him. His sandy hair flopped over his eyes, blocking his vision. Liam desperately flung a burst of energy at the stone, hoping to shatter it. When nothing happened, a cold desperate panic began to settle into the bottom of his stomach. The experienced witch took a deep breath, forcing down the sensation of his heart being squeezed. He closed his eyes and opened them again, wondering why nobody had noticed them yet.

Somehow, the earthmancer had transported him into a dream realm prison, made completely of stone. It was just below the normal dimension of reality, so Liam could easily see Kiera and the four orange sparks converging towards her. Without his magick reservoirs, Liam didn't have enough energy to free himself. The stone leeched his balance magick, and his body slowly started to crumple. Although Liam didn't know, his body was already bringing itself back onto the normal plane.

Kiera picked up her pencil again, distracted. Her teacher snapped, "Kiera! Kiera! Are you focused on something other than English? If so, I hope it's worth it because it just got you ISS*!"

Eleanor stood up, deep red ringlets bouncing as she stammered with mock surprise, "Mr. Morin, I was helping Kiera because she didn't understand the difference between past tense and past participle! Oh, please don't give her ISS because she needs help!"

Kiera flushed as she sank deeper into her seat, the lie ringing in her ears because she knew she understood the concept much better than Eleanor. She mumbled a "yeah, sorry," to Mr. Morin.

The sparks around Eleanor's fingers tumbled and grew as her smirk stretched across her face, slowly igniting and turning Kiera's vision orange.

Kiera gasped for air when she regained the use of her senses, but only took in a mouthful of water. She was no longer in Mr. Morin's classroom. She hadn't moved, but everyone in the room was frozen and she could see sparks in various shades of orange in different parts of her vision.

*For those of you perfect people, ISS is in school suspension. Similar to detention, but Kiera's school doesn't have that so...