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October 15, 2020
Chapter 20 – Practical Will-based Casting
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SebastienMonth 11, Day 2, Monday 2:15 p.m.Sebastien’s next class was Natural Science, which she found more fascinating than she had thought she would, mostly due to the enthusiasm of the professor. The classroom was large, and divided into two sections. One part was desks and seats for students to listen to lectures and take notes, the other section scattered with sturdy slate tables and various equipment for them to do practical experiments.Professor Gnor...
SebastienMonth 11, Day 2, Monday 2:15 p.m.Sebastien’s next class was Natural Science, which she found more fascinating than she had thought she would, mostly due to the enthusiasm of the professor. The classroom was large, and divided into two sections. One part was desks and seats for students to listen to lectures and take notes, the other section scattered with sturdy slate tables and various equipment for them to do practical experiments.Professor Gnor...
October 8, 2020
Chapter 19 – Introduction to Modern Magics
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SebastienMonth 11, Day 2, Monday 4:00 a.m.When Sebastien woke on Monday morning, only the light of the stars filtering in through the window beside her, she didn’t know where she was for a moment. She lay still, her Conduit in her hand without having knowingly grabbed it, and waited for the danger to reveal itself. As her brain cleared of dream residue, it caught up with recent events, and she realized she was in a dorm room with over one hundred other stu...
SebastienMonth 11, Day 2, Monday 4:00 a.m.When Sebastien woke on Monday morning, only the light of the stars filtering in through the window beside her, she didn’t know where she was for a moment. She lay still, her Conduit in her hand without having knowingly grabbed it, and waited for the danger to reveal itself. As her brain cleared of dream residue, it caught up with recent events, and she realized she was in a dorm room with over one hundred other stu...
October 1, 2020
Chapter 18 – Orientation
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SebastienMonth 11, Day 1, Sunday 2:00 p.m.Sebastien stood in front of the mirror in Dryden’s foyer, what belongings she owned in the new suitcases behind her, ready to move to the University. Students were required to stay on campus, but Dryden had offered to let her keep any things that might attach her to Siobhan, like her female clothes, in the room she’d been staying in at his house.She fingered her hair where Katerin had bleached her other body’s hair...
SebastienMonth 11, Day 1, Sunday 2:00 p.m.Sebastien stood in front of the mirror in Dryden’s foyer, what belongings she owned in the new suitcases behind her, ready to move to the University. Students were required to stay on campus, but Dryden had offered to let her keep any things that might attach her to Siobhan, like her female clothes, in the room she’d been staying in at his house.She fingered her hair where Katerin had bleached her other body’s hair...
September 24, 2020
Chapter 17 – A Toast to Forceful Personalities
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Oliver Month 10, Day 31, Saturday 6:00 p.m. “You should ask me to dance before my card fills up. I still have a blank space for you.” The woman fluttered her fan at him, showing the wooden handle with names written in most of the spaces. Each name represented a man who had asked her for a specific dance that evening. Oliver turned to look at her fully, his eyebrows lifting. He was disappointed to see no self-aware mocking in her eyes, and not even a hint o...
Oliver Month 10, Day 31, Saturday 6:00 p.m. “You should ask me to dance before my card fills up. I still have a blank space for you.” The woman fluttered her fan at him, showing the wooden handle with names written in most of the spaces. Each name represented a man who had asked her for a specific dance that evening. Oliver turned to look at her fully, his eyebrows lifting. He was disappointed to see no self-aware mocking in her eyes, and not even a hint o...
September 17, 2020
Chapter 16 – Harmless Blood Magic
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SebastienMonth 10, Day 29, Thursday 4:00 p.m.Siobhan hung another banner on the street lamp, which was long parted from its light crystal. After four days of this, she was almost finished.Siobhan had overheard a dozen more conversations from Dryden’s—the Verdant Stag’s—people. She had even participated in a few herself, as people got used to seeing her with Katerin and the other gang members working on the project. The area under the Stag’s banner was only...
SebastienMonth 10, Day 29, Thursday 4:00 p.m.Siobhan hung another banner on the street lamp, which was long parted from its light crystal. After four days of this, she was almost finished.Siobhan had overheard a dozen more conversations from Dryden’s—the Verdant Stag’s—people. She had even participated in a few herself, as people got used to seeing her with Katerin and the other gang members working on the project. The area under the Stag’s banner was only...
September 10, 2020
Chapter 15 – Dysphoria
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DamienMonth 10, Day 29, Thursday 11:00 a.m.“He’s not even listening, Ana!” a high-pitched voice declared.“Damien,” Anastasia said, the slight twitch of one eyebrow belying the soft, ladylike smile on her face.Damien only then realized that he had been in a daze, looking toward the University rankings board that would soon be updated with the scores of all incoming first-term students. “Oh, sorry, Natalia,” he said to the young girl scowling up at him.Unlik...
DamienMonth 10, Day 29, Thursday 11:00 a.m.“He’s not even listening, Ana!” a high-pitched voice declared.“Damien,” Anastasia said, the slight twitch of one eyebrow belying the soft, ladylike smile on her face.Damien only then realized that he had been in a daze, looking toward the University rankings board that would soon be updated with the scores of all incoming first-term students. “Oh, sorry, Natalia,” he said to the young girl scowling up at him.Unlik...
September 3, 2020
Chapter 14 – Simple Wards & Foreign Ideas
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Sebastien Month 10, Day 25, Sunday 9:00 a.m. Over a week later, Siobhan found herself once again in her female form, doing something illegal. Having said that, she was doing it in broad daylight, accompanied by helpers and bodyguards, and none of the curious citizens who passed seemed to hold the slightest fear toward her, so it didn’t feel quite the same. Katerin had taken her into one of the back rooms of the inn and used the alchemy set-up there to turn...
Sebastien Month 10, Day 25, Sunday 9:00 a.m. Over a week later, Siobhan found herself once again in her female form, doing something illegal. Having said that, she was doing it in broad daylight, accompanied by helpers and bodyguards, and none of the curious citizens who passed seemed to hold the slightest fear toward her, so it didn’t feel quite the same. Katerin had taken her into one of the back rooms of the inn and used the alchemy set-up there to turn...
August 27, 2020
Chapter 13 – Objects in Mirror
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SebastienMonth 10, Day 16, Friday 1:00 p.m.Instead of escorting her off University premises, the proctor the bearded professor had called helped her to her feet and out of the only other door in the room. No students waited on the other side, only another proctor standing behind a desk, who handed Sebastien a partial map of the University. “Go to the library. Administration is to the right once you walk in the main doors.”She stumbled her way there, pausin...
SebastienMonth 10, Day 16, Friday 1:00 p.m.Instead of escorting her off University premises, the proctor the bearded professor had called helped her to her feet and out of the only other door in the room. No students waited on the other side, only another proctor standing behind a desk, who handed Sebastien a partial map of the University. “Go to the library. Administration is to the right once you walk in the main doors.”She stumbled her way there, pausin...
August 20, 2020
Chapter 12 – Oral Examination
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SebastienMonth 10, Day 13, Tuesday 2:00 p.m.When Sebastien passed through the door at the end of the hall, another proctor took her test and replaced her previous wooden token with a new one dated three days in the future. “Come back for the oral examination at the stated time. Don’t lose your token,” the man said in a bored monotone.As she left, Sebastien passed a reception area where other prospective students, who she assumed had passed the written test...
SebastienMonth 10, Day 13, Tuesday 2:00 p.m.When Sebastien passed through the door at the end of the hall, another proctor took her test and replaced her previous wooden token with a new one dated three days in the future. “Come back for the oral examination at the stated time. Don’t lose your token,” the man said in a bored monotone.As she left, Sebastien passed a reception area where other prospective students, who she assumed had passed the written test...
August 13, 2020
Chapter 11 – Written Examination
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SebastienMonth 10, Day 13, Tuesday 6:00 a.m.After the raven-assisted conversation with her father, Siobhan went straight to the guest room Dryden had given her. Faintly trembling with exhaustion, she wrote down the Lino-Wharton messenger spell in as much detail as she could remember it, for later study. Her own grimoire, the place where she kept notes on all the magic she’d learned since childhood, was not as well-protected as the book her fath…as the book...
SebastienMonth 10, Day 13, Tuesday 6:00 a.m.After the raven-assisted conversation with her father, Siobhan went straight to the guest room Dryden had given her. Faintly trembling with exhaustion, she wrote down the Lino-Wharton messenger spell in as much detail as she could remember it, for later study. Her own grimoire, the place where she kept notes on all the magic she’d learned since childhood, was not as well-protected as the book her fath…as the book...
