When the bottle comes around to me I’m ready for it, taking my own long drink, but the boys have already moved on.
“Wait so,” Jesse asks, eyes on Jackson, “how did you know how to do that?”
Jackson sighs and gives a brief summary of his magic for Jesse’s sake, and then elaborates for all of us. “When my magic first manifested as a kid, I just used to lay in bed with energy pounding through me – I couldn’t sleep for weeks.” He sighs, hanging his head and putting his forehead in his hand. “I got really skinny and was ravenous all the time – and no one had figured out what was up with my magic yet, so they didn’t figure out that I needed a lot of food if I was going to burn energy like that. So, I just had to…work it out for myself. I would just lay in bed and focus on it and try to like…ca
