Aidan swept the floors of the library while Beca and Bryn dusted the shelves. They were forbidden to use magic to help them complete their detention chores, the consequence of a prank in which they created an exploding potion that filled a rival dormitory house with a viscous slime that looked like snot. Aidan would do almost anything to address his unbearable boredom as an apprentice in the Magician’s Guild. The son of a thief who grew up stealing, he was caught at age sev