The Capstone Conundrum

For six grueling summers, Pansy Little has trained at the Enclave's Academy, keeping a low profile and hiding her Sight from everyone but her two best friends, Jack Ling and Mortimer Connolly. This year, she's set to graduate, if not at the bottom of her class, then somewhere in the unremarkable middle.

But her newly issued umbrella is anything but unremarkable: pink with white polka-dots, fringed with attention-grabbing ruffles. Her umbrella seems intent on calling attention to itself, much...