“Alright…. Let’s do this again.” I laid my hand against the dead wood and closed my eyes tightly. I was trying to do magic without speaking the enchanting word. I been trying for weeks now and I had failed every single time. I never had enough focus or power to do so. I had been close last week and had spent hours working on it. The flame just kept slipping from my grasp and nothing happened again. 

Today, I concentrated on how the magic made me fee...