We need to talk

I can see her aura. 

The fact almost shocks me too much for words. Magical auras are not things that can simply be seen- they can be felt, yes, like the way a cold shiver runs across your body for no reason in the middle of the night. They talk about magic being drawn from another plane of being, a veil that cuts between what we see, and what remains invisible to the eye. Things such as spirits, or lay lines, or wards of magic. These sort of things equally are only visible to those who have already passed through the veil, like the dead. But in the history of magic, not one single person has ever been documented to see another person's aura. For me to see that, it would mean I would have to be...

My heart pounds heavily in my chest.

I'd have to be dead.

A screeching voice across the room draws me back into some sense of reality.