Hello,
I am looking for the names of two books.
First Book:: Is about a servant girl who can control water. She rescues a bird in a forest. She is discovered using her powers in the forest by a woman wearing a mask. Her only friend while a servant was the bird and the cook who would give her food. I believe the cooks name was Rand.
The bird also helps the girl climb cliffs by landing on the next hand hold.
They take her for training to a school. After school ends they put the kids in a group(family) and they patrol sections of a kingdom?
More details: The girl was beat and whipped by the noble woman of the household. Took a long time for the girl to talk to anyone after being caught using her powers. The woman behind the mask was the daughter of the king. One of the other kids had the power to control bugs. At one point the daughter of the king? was kidnapped and they had to break into a castle and rescue her. I think the people that they were fighting were necromancers or some other dark power. At one point they had to stay at the abusers household during a rain storm. I don't think she killed them but gave them more than a few choice words.
Second book solved: Jaunten (Advent Mage Cycle, #1)
Second Book:: Is about a young man escaping to another kingdom when he discovers he has magic. Since the king kills anyone with magic. While escaping to other kingdom he finds a man dying in the woods, that man passes on his knowledge of his people before dying. The young man is the first earth mage/sorcerer born in 100's of years.
He goes to school in the new kingdom, he rescues other mages from old kingdom. He can travel through the earth.
He ends up working for the kings of both kingdoms eventually. He rescues the son of the kingdom that kills everyone with magic.
Thanks

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