CalledtoPower by Viola Grace

Syrella was born to nobility and cursed by her talent. The last thing she expected was to be called to power.
    Syrella was a talent in a noble family where talents were not normally accepted. Her parents decided that learning how to control her skills would be better for her than being shunned at home, so they sent her to the Citadel school at Thoola. Sy learned everything she could, including the surprising side benefit to her talent and shifted from student to instructor as the years passed.
    Sy receives a call that changes her life. She is the last inheritor of an ancient throne, and she must leave the Citadel immediately.
    Dorium is the bodyguard that the Citadel assigns to her and he just happens to be the man that Sy has had a crush on all her life.
    Death threats, greedy nobility and facing a deadly grandmother are all precursors to the one thing she is looking forward to, the Vexar Day of the Dead.

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    Called to Power
    Copyright © 2012 Viola Grace
    ISBN: 978-1-77111-363-2
    Cover art by Martine Jardin
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    Called to Power
    Tales of the Citadel 11
    By
    Viola Grace

Chapter One
    Syrella faced her most arduous task of the morning. She reached out, pinched off, grabbed and squeezed. She stifled the jump that she always made when the milk sang its way into the bucket.
    “Keep your forehead pressed to her side so that she knows you are there.” Sy kept her tone low as she instructed her students on how to milk a sleppnir goat. The eight-legged animal shifted restlessly but kept eating while she was milked with a gradually smoother rhythm.
    “Tavya, please come up and take over.”
    The young woman with the powder blue skin came up and began to milk with a steady and careful grip.
    The strident tone of the newest student caused the animals to shift.
    Lady Yemore Alwinia sneered, “Why do we have to do stable work? I have never touched anything so filthy in my life.”
    The other six students standing around froze, but Tavya turned slightly to watch.
    Sy smiled, “You are correct, you have not touched anything so filthy. As such, you are now responsible for mucking out the stables and feeding the animals twice daily.”
    The lady gasped, “You cannot do such a thing to me. I am a Wyoran lady.”
    Sy rounded on her. “You are a jumped up little twit who can’t be trusted with a link. That means you are going to have to get your mental stabilization from within, and for that, you need to be set tasks that will allow you to concentrate your telepathy until you stop seeking out weaker minds to subdue.”
    In response, Alwinia scowled and Syrella felt a pressure on her mind. “I am immune to your touch, as are the rest of your instructors. This is the Citadel training facility for ladies of good family. You will earn your place here, or you will be shipped home.”
    Tavya took the half-full bucket of milk and poured it into the safe bucket away from the