The editors of the anthology asked the contributors to supply a short intro paragraph to introduce their stories. This is my first draft:

When Constance was thirteen, she discovered that she was a Firestarter. The man from the Guild told her that the only way she could protect her family from harm was for her to go to the secretive Castle School.
She learned other forms of magic, which was fun. The other girls forced her to learn deportment, which was not fun at all. She joined the officer cadets, so she could learn how to abseil down cliffs. But then the army learned about these children. They turned up at the school gates ...