Tested

Word Count 294

"Why am I not surprised?" Seraphina Goldmantle was used to poor odds.
"Little cheater run out of tricks?" one of her classmates mocked.
She Ignored him deep in thought. She had learned that results would shut up the fools that judged her for her heritage. Using water magic to help a tree sprout was easy. Unless your tree was already dead and barely standing upright.
Sera was disappointed but not discouraged. They had a week to accomplish this task and she knew that there had to be a solution, all problems had solutions if you looked hard enough. She would be a mage even if half her teachers and all her classmates hated her and thought her a fraud.
A week passed everyone else had managed to get some green while Sera’s tree remained dead. As the teacher started to go around to each tree grading the effort based on how many leaves the tree had. Sera started to prepare a spool of white silk thread. Such magic was usually done with fine wire to weave the magic but in her research this worked the best. The thread glowed and started winding off the spool, pulled about by her will and power. It form a web around the dead tree,
As her teacher walked up to her she finished the spell and suddenly the dead tree was covered in thousands of transparent leaves glistening in the light.
“What kind of trickery is this? This was not the assignment Ms Goldmantle.”
“Use water magic to put leaves on my assigned tree was the instructions you gave me. Right? Water magic includes both steam and ice, as I’m sure you know. These are ice leaves could you please count them for my grade before they melt?”