The Atlas Six

She’d never met anyone with anything even close to hers or Nico’s proficiency with physical magic. Nico gave Libby a smug look like he knew she was doing the math, and she shot back a contemptuous one like she knew he wasn’t. “Then comes the fun part, of course—the real selectivity,” the man continued. “Which students have the rarest magic? He had thought Libby and Nico were powerful—that Reina was leaking raw magic, overflowing with it to the point of near-irresponsibility—but knew nothing of himself, or where he fit among them. An arm wrapped around her waist, dragging her backwards, and the air in the room rushed back into her lungs at the moment she finally found the voice to scream.