The Food Chain

I got another story idea!!!  But don't worry, it's on hold.  But this is my fleshing out time, so I don't forget about it.

So, it's called the Food Chain, because I was thinking about the food chain, then this just waltzed in.  It's about a wierdo named Mellie and a boy named Penn.  Mellie is magical - a mage-in-training - while Penn is.. well.. just Penn.  He's this blacksmith's son (do not think macho.  Penn's this wiry skinny dude, the ones you would picture steriotypishly to be with glasses) and really has no magic at all.  Which, Mellie thinks is a lot greater than having some - in thier world, the "haves" are grouped together, and as are the "have-nots" - so even though Mellie has (according to her)  0.000001 magic abilities, she still has them and is in the same class as the super, ultra-powerful gals.  Which really makes her kind of self-conscious (relation to how I'm feeling, subract the magical powers).  She tries to run away, meets Penn being beat up by some older guys, and runs back.

But that happened 4 years ago.  Now, Penn is 19 and she's 17.  (This is medival-ish - no electricity, just magic.  Think Eragon).   Penn's turned into this somewhat-better dude, and she's seeminly gotten worse with magic.  But she's been making nightly trips and has a few stashes of stuff - she's planning to escape.  Not so easy when the high-security school hunts you down, but oh well.  Suddenly, this old and famous seer gets a vision of her and a boy defeating this evil, corrupt, turned-bad wizard.  At the same time, Millie is found out of the school grounds and they are going to turn her to the dungeons (filled with eels and trolls) but luck is on her side and the vision saves her.  She's cast out until she defeats him.

Great!  She's out with no time limit of getting back.  No way will she go find that evil dude (Mr. Sinister for now).  But then she meets Penn and *something* drives them both to get to Mr. Sinister.  Maybe a teensie twilight-ness (if you know what I mean) but besides that, I have a really, really, really, really dumb kids story.

:) fun.

Sarah