She was perfection. She was beauty. She was everything he ever dreamed of. She could also do what most teenagers in the world wanted to do: Fly. She could fly away from all of her troubles at any moment and leave them all behind forever, but she stayed. Tancred could never understand why. If he could do that, he'd surely leave for a while, to clear his head. But Emma would never think of that. She was genuine.

Emma Tolly was drawing on a piece of notebook paper during the morning break. She didn't have a clue that Tancred Torsson was watching her and envying her ability. She was unaware of everything. All of the endowed were unaware of what sat for them around the corner.

Tancred approached her and next to her. Since she was so rapped up in her doodle of a tollroc, she didn't notice his presence next to her. She had a horrible headache for some reason and couldn't concentrate on her drawing. There were many meaningless lines and goof ups in the drawing, and she'd only started moments before. She didn't feel like herself. Art was her thing, especially drawing birds, but now she couldn't draw something simple that she'd been able to draw for years.

He wanted to talk to her. He could tell there was something wrong with her. She had been acting strange all day, hardly talking and messing up most of her pictures. This wasn't like her at all. This wasn't the girl he loved. "Emma," He tapped her shoulder.

Emma jumped almost a mile. Her paper and pencil went flying across the field and stuck to Joshua Tilpin. Her eyes (A/N: does anyone know what color they are?) went wide with shock as she looked at Tancred. "Don't scare me like that!"

"I didn't mean to," Tancred stood from the log the two had been sitting on and backed away a couple steps. "Is something wrong, Em?"

Emma shook her head, though he could see in her eyes that she was lying. "Everything's fine." She told her feet. She wouldn't look at him.

"Emma, I know you better than that. There's something wrong." Tancred grabbed her shoulders and made her look at him. She immediately blushed, but her didn't notice. "Just tell me what's wrong."

After staring into his stormy eyes (A/N: blue, right?) for a moment, she opened her mouth to speak, but something caught her eye. She looked over at Joshua across the field. A second later, all of the items clinging to him fell off. The boy screamed once he noticed.

Tancred turned to look at Joshua. "What's going on?"

Emma didn't know what to say, but she did have a vague idea of what was happening. "Tancred, make it rain." She ordered. "Make it rain right now."

"Why?" He wondered, confused.

"Just do it." She already knew it was no use to try and change into a bird. It was probably too late for all of the endowed at Bloor's Academy.

Tancred tried, but couldn't even conjure up the slightest raindrop of whip of wind. "Emma, what's happening?"

At that moment, the back doors pounded open and Dr. Bloor and Manfred emerged from the school, both looking furious. "All children of the Red King up to the Kings room this instant!" He ordered. "This includes Olivia Vertigo."

Emma was slightly in shock. Did they already know about Olivia? They'd tried hard not to get her discovered.

Olivia with her neon orange hair joined Emma and Tancred as they approached the school. All of their friends and their enemies were heading the same way and soon all of the endowed children of Bloor's Academy were sitting in the Kings room.

Dr. Bloor and Manfred entered angrily and pulled Olivia out of her seat. "How stupid are you. You should have told us about your endowment from the beginning!" Manfred shouted at a frightened Olivia.

Charlie jumped up. "Manfred, we were trying to keep her a secret so we could use her if worst came to worst. You can't yell at her. Yell at me. It was my idea."

"Okay then I will!" He shoved Olivia back into her seat. "Charlie Bone, you are the stupidest person to ever walk through the gates of Bloor's Academy!"

"Why?" Charlie asked, confused.

"If we'd known about Olivia, then we wouldn't be in danger right now!" He screamed. "Somebody got angry at our family today because they knew about Olivia and thought we were hiding her from them."

"Who?" Tancred asked.

"The head of all endowed in the world. He knows the exact number of all endowed on the face of the planet. We had a meeting with him today and he doesn't like getting told incorrectly. He has the ability to take away endowments. Because you hid Olivia from us, Bone, the head of endowed took away all of the endowments in our school." Dr. Bloor explained.

"You mean none of us has an endowment?" Dorcas gasped.

"Yes and no. None of us in this room has endowments, but the head of endowed has another endowment: he can place your endowments with someone else." Dr. Bloor said.

"I'm afraid of who got Torsson's ability." Manfred muttered.

"Can we get them back?" Joshua wondered.

"Yes," Dr. Bloor nodded, "He said he would give them back once we proved we earned them. Right now your guys' job is to figure out who got what endowment and report them to me. At the end of every day I will report who got what ability. You will still do homework in the Kings room, but will be joined by those children and it will be your job to make sure that the person who gets your ability doesn't misuse it or does anything harmful, understand?"

Everyone nodded and followed the Bloor's out of the room, except for Emma. She was mortified. Tancred stopped at the door when he noticed she wasn't moving. "Emma, come on," she still didn't move. Tancred sat down next to her and looked at her face. She looked close to tears. "Emma, we'll get them back eventually."

"But my endowment is all I have. Without it, I can't do anything. Did you not notice all of my drawings today? They all look horrible." A tear fell down her face.

"Hey, don't cry." He wiped the tear away, "You can probably still draw. You're just paranoid about losing your endowment."

"I don't know." Emma stood up. "If anyone asks, tell them that I'm not feeling well." She left the room.

Tancred knew at that moment, Emma wanted to do what she had never needed to do before: fly away. But now she couldn't.

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