Welcome to Psyhigh, @Ethan! Here you'll find that lots of people have gifts similar to yours. My Aunt Sweet Pea was able to speak with her past lives, in fact. Of course, that turned out rather disastrous when she was possessed by The Dark Fae Queen Æleœä (one of her more unfortunate former identities) and nearly destroyed The Balance. But anyway, Psyhigh is here to teach you the full extent of your powers and how to control them, so that kind of thing doesn't happen. Often.

If you need any help, PsyBuddies will be meeting this Saturday at SpoonBender to welcome new students and assign them mentors (if needed). Please feel free to attend; we will be serving refreshments courtesy of our sponsors, @i am the champ and @Big Jim. @destinee scott, you are invited to attend as well.

~Trinket
First Level
Light Fairy
Seelie Court

@Aaron Dee, I was unable to enter Bear Country, as it seems the inhabitants have set up wards and cold iron. However, I was able to bake a cake with a (non-iron) file and a map that will take you to the nearest fairy circle in it. I got the recipe from Grandmother Lettuce, actually. She used to use cakes to lure and trap mortals. They always turn out perfect, and smell like cinnamon and apricots, with a faint hint of dark magic. Of course, she doesn't trap mortals anymore (that we're aware of), and hasn't made a cake in over a century. But the cake turned out good enough. Just don't eat it.

Anyway, if you follow the map, it should lead you to a fairy circle next to an abandoned well. Once at the fairy circle, simply step into it, and you should be transported to Psyhigh at the end of The Woods.

In case you can't get out unobserved, I've written down a cloaking spell and placed this in the cake, as well. I hope this helps!

Wishing you luck and safe journeys!

~Trinket
First Level
Light Fairy
Seelie Court

Hello, @Scilph!
Are you alright? I noticed that before your plea for help, you had been writing about how your school work was starting to deteriorate. Is this what you were asking help about? Or did you or a loved one decide to attend @Randy Berstein's flight club and are you (or a loved one) now stranded in the Bermuda Triangle surrounded by Dark Selkies and the Fog Folk of legend? Perhaps you were kidnapped by Pixies again? They are such uncivilized creatures. (Though I respect them as I respect all creatures of Light and Dark.) Prehaps @Matching by Mattie put you in a trance with her signiture Lovesick Soda, or maybe you have gotten lost and find yourself trapped in one of the many secret rooms, tangled up in Binding Spells. Have you been frozen by @Nobody's dragon?

Or are you truly having trouble with school work? If this is the case, I might possibly have some valid advice, although whether you find it applicable and decide to take it is entirely up to you.

I, myself, had trouble with my grades, and sometimes I still do. I wasn't always a PsyHigh Fairy Representative, or a First Level Light Fairy. Last year, in fact, I was doing quite poorly in my studies, and didn't even qualify to be considered to go to PsyHigh. Something that helped me was talking to each of my instructors and getting individualized help for my classes. Perhaps you could try this? Talking to teachers and admitting your problems is often hard, especially if you don't know what the problem is and why you are failing (or doing poorly) in a class. And I'm fairly certain that this school offers tutoring in the library known as "S-Al"; you could always look into tutoring.

Most of the textbooks offer a mantra that drops the information and complete understanding into one's mind, which I find extremely useful after a particularly complicated class of light bending. In fact, this is so useful, that they even do something like this in the mortal world! My cousin, Candace (her birth name is Can, but she insists on being called "Candace"), who is a changeling, said that most math books and a few other textbooks in mortal schools have a "link" to connect to an "online version" of the textbook, which explains the lesson again, and gives help to those who need it. I'm not quite sure how this works, though. Most respectable fairies of the Seelie Court don't involve themselves in use of "the internet". Using an electronic journal is bad enough. Of course, my cousin uses it all the time, but then again, she has Chosen to live in the Mortal World as a Mortal. It was quite the scandal when she Chose. But she isn't completely estranged from us anymore.

My Great Aunt Tissue once gave me some advice on tests. She told me to not panic, or worry, but to take deep breaths and center myself. My Cousin Gouda chews gum to help him focus when taking a test, and my sister Bauble studies very hard the previous week, studies lightly the night before, and gets as much sleep as possible the night before. She gets very good grades, especially in spell binding, and unraveling curses. But she is a Christening Fairy, so curse blocking and spellbindings are her specialty.

As for battling stress, you might simply find time to relax for a few minutes and do something none-stressful that you enjoy.

Anyway, I hope my suggestions have been of some use, although I know I have a tendency to babble. With luck, hard work, and a blessing, may you improve your grades. Or survive whatever ordeal you are dealing with.

~Trinket
First Level
Light Fairy
Seelie Court

As a low level Light Fairy of the Seelie Court, I am NOT a pixie. Pixies are generally malicious primitive creatures, and while I respect them, as I respect all creatures of light and dark, I prefer to have as little dealing with them as possible. Being a Fairy from a distinguishable family, I do not appreciate the all too common confusion regarding the difference between Pixies and Fairies. Even Uncle Two Cents who was rumored to have fallen in love with a Selkie had little if anything to do with Pixies. It's...simply, undignified.

However, as a representative of my family and Light Fairies in general at Psyhigh, I feel it is my duty to involve myself in this... Unfortunate, series of events. It has come to my attention that the student @Scilph has been captured by the Pixie King known as Scintillula, and taken into the Fae Forest. Should any of the students without Fae blood make any attempts to rescue her, it would be disastrous. Furthermore, few students (even those with Fae blood) have ever been to the Fae Forest, and fewer still know their way around The Forest. So I volunteer my services as a guide to those students of Fae blood who wish to go on a quest to rescue Scilph. Perhaps @Gretel? Thinned Changeling blood is still enough to guarantee (relative) safety in The Forest, and it might help to have someone not fully despised by Pixies. Current relations between Pixies and Fairies are...tense. To say the least. At exactly 4 o'clock sharp at the edge of the forest, I shall be meeting any of Fae blood who wish to rescue Scilph to begin the journey to Scintillula's territory.

~Trinket
First Level
Light Fairy
Seelie Court

@Kristopher lots of students experience disorientation regarding time and "time zones". This is because Psyhigh exist everywhere and anywhere and all times at once in order to cater to it's variety of students. But because it exists everywhere anywhere and at all times, it needs a sort of "base", you might call it, to keep the school from simply imploding in on itself. That "base" is situated in the here and now in Portland, Oregon. That isn't to say that Psyhigh doesn't exist where you are, or in some extreme cases, nowhere at all, because it does. But the "base" of Psyhigh might account for your feelings of time related disorientation. You are still operating on the time zone you are from, while everyone else operates on a combination of Pacific Time and no time at all. Eventually you will adjust. All of the mortals ever brought to Faierie did. A few aged extremely rapidly at first, but then they adjusted. Or so I'm told. We Fae of the Seelie Court generally don't trap mortals anymore. Usually. Although there is Great Uncle Oak Leaf...

I hope I have been of some service to you, and if you are still confused, I suggest you find a higher level fairy or someone else who will be able to tell you more. Or just forget about the whole business.

~Trinket
First Level
Light Fairy
Seelie Court

@Cassandra, as a fairy of The Seelie Court, (versus The Unseelie Court), and a minor fairy at that, I am not very knowledgeable in the matter of possession. However, what you are describing sounds more like the tricks of Browines, Faeries, or other Fae, rather than possession by spirits. We Fae often like to play tricks on human folk like yourself, even if some of you possess psychic abilities or Fae Blood. In fact, my Aunt Tea Cup was very fond of tying knots into the hair of the Dean himself. Or, at least, she was until he enforced his offices with Iron. Cousin Bauble also enjoys teasing students; being a Water Fairy, she often causes the drinking fountain to spray people in unfortunate places at unfortunate moments. And Uncle Teaspoon likes to sneak into dorm rooms and hide keys or move items to less than noticeable places. So I suggest that you leave a bowl of milk and a biscuit out. If it is indeed my Fae cousins, then your problems should (mostly) disappear. If it is possession, and not anyone Fae, or someone (or something) from The Unseelie Court, I suggest you get professional help.

~Trinket
First Level
Light Fairy
Seelie Court