Figment of Dreams
Chapter 30: A magic type

I had expected a lot from a class called Magical Science. Since I had never even seen anything magical, except for maybe Melixes magically awful personality, I had been expecting us to be flying around on broomsticks and trying to pronounce difficult spells.

I got nothing like that. What I got was a very boring class, explaining all about magic and what we could do to protect ourselves from it.

In our first few classes we covered the basics. To put it bluntly: Fae all possessed magic, Rainer’s in theory possessed none. The Aries War had made sure all Rainers who ended up behind the wall had no magic left.

However, magic always found a loophole. Most Rainers were able to Paramirage. Which shouldn’t have been possible, but that one particular power had remained.

Also half- Fae half-Rainers, who were very rare since all Fae and Rainers have been separated for years, also possess magic since the Fae side is always dominant.

There was also a strange third category, which I had not yet had the details on. The bonded few were gifted with magic on the day they sealed the mating bond. A gift from the stars themselves.

Sky and I entered the classroom, gossiping about Dexar and his new girlfriend, Victoria Amberhorn. They made quite a spectacle of themselves when they had been discovered mid rump in gym class behind the bleachers. It had been the talk of the campus the entire morning.

‘Carina, over here.’ I heard his voice before I saw him and I froze. ‘I saved you a seat.’

I could not believe this. He had not been in this class and now he was?

Sky’s eyes were so widened in shock I was afraid she wouldn’t be able to close them again.

‘Dosch.’ I addressed him firmly. ‘I don’t know what you are doing here but I’m with Sky in this class.’ It was one of the few we shared and I was not ditching my best friend.

A sly look slid over his handsome face. ‘Skylar won’t mind, won’t she?’ he addressed Sky with so much venom, I could feel her trembling in her pink sneakers.

‘Nope, don’t mind. See ya later Lux.’ She squealed and hurried on like her tail was on fire. She sat down next to an equally surprised Nexxar. The traitor.

I rolled my eyes and slid down next to him. ‘So this is going to be your new thing now?’

‘What thing, Carina?’

‘Being in all of my classes suddenly?’

‘Why would you think that?’

‘Jeez, Dosch. Why on earth would I think that?’ I rolled my eyes and put my books on the desk.

But the professor entered and started her lesson. It hit the subject of the bonded today and that really interested me. Not that I could ever be bonded myself since I was human and all, but all of my friends and my boyfriend were Rainers. So I really needed more information about this.

i knew all Rainers had to be Polyamorous to have an opportunity for offspring because of the Aries Curse. They fortunately have a blessing from the stars, called the mating bondwhich is an ancient form of magic.

Whenever a soul replaces a matching partner, they bless both people with an appearance of a small tattoo somewhere on the body. It’s usually a roman numeral, indicating how many partners will be in the bond.

It can be a male dominated bond, or a female dominated bond. But since females are rare, for every female there are five males born, it’s usually a male dominated bond. In a male dominated bond, all males will be able to see the roman numerals of the mating mark as soon as their soul recognises their female Tika, the female who is the centre of the bond, the Alpha sort of. She, however will only receive the mark when the bond is sealed.

The replaceing of one’s mate automatically generates reproductive magic, allowing the barren Rainer female to be able to reproduce. This makes lots of Rainers search for their mates, sometimes for lifetimes.

Other Rainers don’t care about replaceing their rare mate, they just want to enjoy the time they have and they often marry one single other. These Rainers are rare though.

The mating bond is merely an indicator of a soul bond, not a binding one. Also it is rare one replaces their mates, more often than not Rainers live with partners who are not their mates. Hence the curse of Aries, therefore way less new Rainers are born each year since the replaceing of the mate is really difficult.

When there are more than one Rainer in the bond, everyone in the Ruma of the bond (the collective underneath the Tika) who has already been ‘awakened’ can see how many partners there are in the mating bond. Thus seeing if he or she can force the claiming to happen yet.

When all partners have been awakened, again this is rare, the bond will be able to set and a soul connection can be formed between everyone in the bond.

The claiming can happen, when everyone in the bond indicates underneath the stars that they want to choose the other as their soul partner, in turn for the exchange of the claiming vows everyone in the bond will be blessed with a different sort of magic that is only available to the bond members (it could be reading of thoughts, being able to sense emotions, telekinesis, control of the elements, shape shifting, etc..)

Since it is a Fae Blessing actually (all Rainers were once Fae). The loyalty that stems from this is for a lifetime and the claiming of the bond cannot be broken. There have been stories about the Aos (the bonded circle) mutually deciding to not evoke the magic and not seal the bond.

It doesn’t have to be sexual, but more often than not the bond will be calling and demanding a mating ritual to happen on the night of the claiming. Yet, there have been several blessed mates who have married other Rainers instead of their own Tika.

Alas, if they want offspring they will only have a chance for one with their Tika.

Midway through the class Dosch dropped a brownie in front of my nose.

‘For you.’

I stared at it as if it was about to sprout teeth. Even though brownies were my favourite dessert in the world.

‘What’s the catch?’

He laughed and cracked his knuckles. ‘No catch. I just bought two. Mine is already finished.’

‘Okay… Dosch.’ I sighed. ‘It’s still a little weird though.’

‘Why is that weird?’

‘We hardly know each other and you are buying me brownies?’

He grabbed his chest as if I had stabbed him.

‘Are you saying all of those hours we have spent by each other’s side makes you think we are still strangers?’

‘Will you shut your pie hole if I eat this thing and let me focus?’

He snorted. ‘I will shut my pie hole.’

I sighed, took the brownie and took a huge bite. It was so good I could not suppress a low moan.

’If you are going to be making sounds like that I’m bringing you all the brownies. All the time. Dios mio.’

I rolled my eyes at him but continued eating the thing. It was that good. He was watching me though. When I finished licking my fingers I had figured out he must have had some kind of eating fetish, considering he was all kinds of turned on at the moment and not hiding it. Like at all.

‘Satisfied?’ I sighed while giving him one raised eyebrow.

He glanced at my lips and reached for it with his thumb. Wiping of some crumbs. But wiping very slowly. Deliberately slowly. He licked the crumbs from his own thumb and that strangely also did things to me. Damn that man.

‘Very satisfied, yes.’ He groaned. ‘Carina. Would you-’

The class had ended and everyone was rising at once so I did not hear his last words.

‘What did you say?’

He just shook his head. ‘Nothing, forget it.’ He stormed out of the class in a hurry.