Mystic

Pomella AnDone is a restless, low-born teenager who receives a summons she was never supposed to get. A new High Mystic has taken her seat and picked Pomella as a candidate for apprenticeship. Mystics are powerful, revered and often reclusive, and they can summon and shape the Myst, the energy at the heart of the universe.

For hundreds of years, only high-born nobles have competed for the chance to study under a Mystic, and apprentices are rarely taken. Commoners have no place in that tradition. Pomella accepts anyway and travels to Kelt Apar, knowing that the rivalry with the other candidates will be the smaller part of her trouble.

Her presence there breaks both law and custom. To earn the apprenticeship she must pass three trials set against the other candidates, and each one tests whether she deserves a place among them.

The setting is a fantasy world with a defined magic system, and the tone is dangerous. Pomella faces intolerance and betrayal as the trials go on. Ruthless conspirators are also working to make her pay for daring to seek the secrets of the Myst, so the threat grows beyond the contest itself.