Chapter 8

Unfortunately I found only one other visualisation self-effect spell and that was one that accelerated healing processes. I spent a few minutes going over the visualisation required just in case.

By the time I'd finished my shower and had got dressed and come back up to the kitchen mum had left and Cate was left on her own, evidently slightly confused by her homework.

"When is it due in?" I asked.

"Today." Was her terse reply.

I glanced over her shoulder at the work. I had taken Italian as a GCSE option and done fair-ly well at it. As I looked all I could see was a big long page full of Italian.

"Oh dear" I commented. "One of them."

"Yeah" She replied disgusted. "He says he simplified and shortened it so it wouldn't be too hard for us to translate but there are loads of bits that have me stumped."

The schools Italian teacher didn't believe in easy exercises. His favourite type of home-work was finding a piece of news in the Italian media then altering it so it was our level of competency and then telling us to translate it word for word into English.

I spent a few minutes helping Cass work through some of the tougher bits of grammar and telling her words I knew but there were still words we had to look up. Between the two of us it only took ten minutes to finish of the partially completed homework.

"I need to grab my P.E kit." Cass told me as she packed her books away. "I'll see you later okay?"

I nodded in reply and set off for school. No matter how well Cass and I got on, we wouldn't walk to school together. It simply wasn't done. I'm sure all those out there with siblings understand.