His psionic ability is compulsion. If he tells you to do something, you do it, and it feels as though it's of your own volition. Quite a terrifying gift, but he never turned it on me, of course. He might have done from a far enough distance... I wonder if he just never thought of it.

[But no, Petre would have thought of everything. She somehow earned never having that happen, which is an odd thought.]

He was a complete terror, but we just had fun. The academy was so dreary and dull, you needed someone as mad as Petre to dream up any real fun.