The women looked at each other and then turned back to Jasmine.
"No you are not a mage." Calline said.
Jasmine sent a sickening feeling in her chest.
She had never felt like she was a mage, never even considered it, but the prospect of it had lit a fire in her.
A fire of hope that perhaps she was something.
And that itself had crashed down just like everything else in her life always did.
"Of course I am nobody." Jasmine said weakly to herself.
"You don't understand what we are saying do you?" Rashida asked as she threw the ball once again for Anna. "The tavern you stepped in is only allowed to mages. You and doggy here would never have gotten through it unless you broke the spell."
"And the staircase here too." Calline said. "We also suspect that even without our help you would have still been able to access this room."
