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There we had learned our numbers and what mental arithmetic we were each capable of.
No abacus?
Everyone kept telling me that I didn’t belong here, and they were right. I was behind in every measure. But only an accident of birth was responsible for that. I was no less intelligent, no weaker than any of them. And if they thought I meant to run away with my tail between my legs, they were wrong. If I was to be granted the miraculous ability to learn to read and write, I meant to grasp it with both hands.
I don't understand that.
“This isn’t how I want to be spending my rest day, Elena. I would have expected you, at least, to show some motivation to learn.”
Motivation is more sustainable when you get to rest
that visitors were welcome at the University, and that in fact their extensive library was open for use by the public.
Nothing about that makes sense.
non-blood
So fucking awkward
And I didn’t intend to give the Stantorn and Devoras heads a reason to have me arrested.
You should probably be studying law, too. It's an exploitable vulnerability.
“Of course. What else could happen?”
That's super obvious. What do they do to people who work magic without control?
having to work harder than everyone else since I couldn’t take any notes.
Seems like you could ask for some safely bound paper, surrounded as you are by mages interested in your education.
“Plenty of people want me dead. You know that.” He shrugged. “It’s not personal, Elena. It’s politics. And in politics things change all the time. Just because that’s what they wanted a month ago doesn’t mean that’s what they want now.”
The fuck?
They left behind a bread trail to follow.”
It's....a trail of breadcrumbs...not a bread trail.
