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School of Light

by Jody Lynn Nye
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to
real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

Copyright © 1999 by Jody Lynn Nye

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.

A Baen Books Original

Baen Publishing Enterprises
P.O. Box 1403
Riverdale, NY 10471

ISBN: 0-671-57816-2

Cover art by Pat Turner

First printing, June 1999

Distributed by Simon & Schuster
1230 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020


Typeset by Brilliant Press
Printed in the United States of America




Chapter 1
The girls in muddy shorts and T-shirts scrambled madly toward one another as the referee on the sidelines
blew a sharp blast on her whistle. From the path beside the field, Juele heard a hollow poomp, and a big,
round, white ball went sailing high into the blue sky toward the goal at the end of the grassy field. It arced
higher and higher, looking as if it might overshoot the goal completely, then began to descend, slowing as it
fell. Suddenly it stopped entirely, forty feet in the air.
“Air ball!” one of the girls shrieked. The opposing team started laughing. The defending team looked -
upset for a moment, then began to laugh, too. The female teacher on the sidelines came forward and planted
her hands on her hips to look up at the hovering ball.
“All right, you lot,” the teacher called. “Is it really up there, or is someone spinning an illusion?”
The young women all protested at once. “No, Mrs. Cardigan. We wouldn’t do that!” But there were a few
smiles and nods among the players, saving up the idea for next time.
“Well then, it’s stuck,” said Mrs. Cardigan. “Would someone please go find the ladder?” A few of the
gym-suited girls ran off the field toward a low wooden building behind the second goal.
“Come on.” Rutaro nudged Juele. “We have to keep going.”
Juele pulled her attention away from the interesting spectacle of students standing on one another’s
shoulders atop the highest rung of the ladder and lifted her belongings. She followed the stocky young man,