1. Hindrance

Marianne Brockett wants nothing more than to fit in. As a girl completely unable to use magic, she's locked out of the world of privileges and conveniences that student life at Master Drysdell's Preternatural Arts Comprehensive has to offer. The clouded world of her home life estranges her further, with only a barbaric stepmother and a cat for solace. To conceal her anxieties, she turns to an alter-ego and adopts the alternate name Marion, becoming an almost entirely different person, but soon the term "being yourself" takes on an entirely new, dangerous meaning.

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