"Give me my freaking training wheels, Levi." But I hesitated. It was one thing to cut in the heat of danger but standing here in a gym and deciding where to wound myself made me feel oddly vulnerable.

"Allow me."

I handed him the blade and he made a precise incision in the crook of my arm that I didn't even feel.

"There. You're bleeding." He put the knife in his pocket. "Do you sense your magic now?"

"Yes." It vibrated in a slightly ticklish way through ...