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“What the hell?” Lark said.
“They’re just jerks,” Nina said, patting her back.
“I know Kendall, but who were the others?” I asked.
“The short one is Esme and the tall one is Theodosia, but everyone calls her Dozie,” Anya explained.
“They think because they’re legs that they’re better than the rest of us,” Nina said.
“Legs?” I echoed.
“Legacies,” Anya explained. “Their mothers went here too, grandmothers as well, for some of them.”
“Does that give them stronger magic?” I asked, fascinated.
“They seem to think so,” Lark said, rolling her eyes.
“Does magic run in families?” I asked.
“Probably,” Anya said, bending to pick up the books that Esme had knocked over. “Though there are plenty of us who are the first in our families to come to Primrose.”
“But it’s also possible that some people have magic in their families and they just don’t know about it,” Nina said. “In my family, something like that would have been frowned on.”
I nodded and thought about my own extended family. I couldn’t imagine any of them setting wards around things, but I supposed it was possible I could have gone the rest of my own life without recognizing that the weird coincidence of my fall was anything more than that.
If Eve hadn’t come to me…
“Don’t dillydally girls,” the headmistress said as she marched past us again. “Finish up and get back to class.”
“Yes, headmistress,” the others said in unison. I joined in just late enough to make all of us sound ridiculous.
Her eyes rested on mine for a moment and there was something there - sympathy, fear? - some flash of emotion before the gates crashed down and she gave me that professional half-smile before continuing to the double doors that led out of the library.
