Elizabeth Wilson
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Lunch was a quick affair that passes in a haze of yummy food and a lot of laughing with your friends, but despite how fun it was you couldn’t quite focus during that time. Now you’re in the Magical Preparations and Rituals class and lady Professor Clearwater is talking. You should be paying attention. What if Abigail misses a bit and asks you a question? But the talk about making sure everything is just right before conducting a ritual and making sure all the ingredients are well prepared is not…-
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Dreamer died. Or, well, something happened that kinda sorta led her to dying a teeny tiny bit. Like, she was dead, but only a small percentage of her. Not a full number percentage either. One of those fake imaginary numbers. She was most of 0% dead. Math had also died. No one mourned its loss. She woke up, as she was wont to do on occasion, and found herself in a small room. A very small room with, in its centre, a dias upon which sat a floating ball of crystal that spun and hovered and pulsed with…
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The professor who teaches Eugenics, Etiquette and Ethics is a tall woman in a very tight set of blood-red robes. Instead of having a weird professor hat, she has a sort of wide-brimmed floppy hat that Abigail called a cavalier. You don’t know what that means or what it’s supposed to tell you about the professor’s rank. Really, if these mortals want to tell rank apart with hats they should put numbers on them, or maybe write the rank on the hat and give friendly people from the void like you a chart…
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“Bye!” You say to Charlotte. The taller girl beams down at you and pats your head and ruffles your hair. “Goodbye Dreamer,” she says before pointing to Web who is riding on her shoulder. “Web says bye too.” The spider wiggles one of its tiny limbs in the air before it and if you're not mistaken its big furry mandibles are stretched out in a smile. “Bye Web!” you say to her before waving. Abigail and Daphne say bye too and then your group splits up, Charlotte heading off towards her…
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There’s some hustling and bustling and suddenly you and Abigail and the others are all moved off to the side of the room farthest from the ritual area. “This is very dangerous,” a girl says with a flat, bored tone. “One mistake and we could lose the black pits that are our souls. Stay away, sheep.” The girl stays next to you and crosses her arms. “Can’t believe I have to babysit.” The rest of the club members gather around a circle with the same energy you have when you’re woken up…
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Abigail stretches her arms way, way up until her back goes crack-pop and she lets out a happy sigh. Class is over and now it’s time for more fun stuff, not that playing with Web wasn’t fun. You stretch too, stubby arms reaching up towards the ceiling, then you wiggle you body from side to side a little. Some of the girls nearby giggle and there’s a big smile on Charlotte’s face as she pats your head. “That was a big stretch,” she says. You nod. It was. Charlotte, still smiling, brings her…
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The professor for your afternoon classes is a reedy little man with huge, huge glasses on, even bigger and thicker than Abigail's. He’s a bit stooped over as he stands at the front of the room, but straightens and smiles as the last of his students come in. This class is also pretty strange, instead of sitting down behind a desk, you’re all made to sit behind one of the counters in the room. There’s a sink in each one, and a little burner thing and its all covered in shiny steel. You wonder if there…
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You wake up and smack your lips a few times, then turn over so that you can go back to napping. You don’t know what time it is yet, or what woke you from naptime, but whatever it is can wait. A quick check of the room before you fall back asleep reveals something that wasn’t there before. There’s a box, and it's floating before you in mid-air. You look down to make sure Abigail is still napping next to you, and yes, there she is all bundled up against your side as is right and proper. The box is…
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The girls, that is, Charlotte and Abigail, decide to eat outside. Both of them brought their own lunches so they don’t need to wait in line in the food selling place and can just go out right away. You’re okay with this. The weather outside is nice and warm and it’s sunny. There’s a lot of room with trees and things for Familiars that are dumber than you to run around in and even tables where you can eat. A few other students are there too, some in groups of friends, some in couples that are being…
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The four Summoners form a sort of circle in a corner of the classroom, desks pushed aside and chairs moved so that everyone can face everyone else. You’re sitting between Abigail and Charlotte, of course, and across from you is Wuffles and Cutebee. Charlotte’s own Familiar is still being sneaky-like. “So,” Everette says. “We’re supposed to talk about how we care for our Familiars, right? Maybe Wuffles and I can go first?” “I for one would love to know where you came up with that name,”…
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