Jennifer Jones
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Tala listened to Master Nadro’s story with rapt attention, mostly processing what was said as still rather frustratingly vague. Even so, it was more than she’d expected to learn. Master Nadro had been born with an unusual deformity, magically speaking. Mainly, he couldn’t hold power at all. His density always perfectly matched the environment he found himself in. He didn’t even disturb the zeme around himself as he moved through it. That part of his defect had gained the attention of those…-
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Tala sat down with Adrill, Brandon, Kedva, and Master Nadro, joining in on their conversation, “What did I miss?” Adrill smiled, nodding in greeting along with the other two before answering her question, “We just outlined the basics of what occurred, leading up to our rebirth as arcane magic users.” Master Nadro chuckled. “Well, human wielders of the arcane might be more accurate, but sometimes accuracy breeds greater confusion.” Adrill gave a slow nod before continuing. “He said that you…
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Tala quickly checked with everyone, and after verifying that they were ready to go, she used a moderate act of will to move everyone to a spread of food already made ready for them. Moving Mistress Vanga among the others was interesting. Tala Tala also felt that she would have won the struggle, but it wouldn’t have been as effortless as moving other things. She had been observing all such movements, trying to build out a model of how they happened. Both of them still had absolutely no idea how it…
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Tala’s aura was acting as a mold, holding the patterns and forcing the magic to flow at her direction. Her threefold sight let her know that Kedva’s kidneys were working overtime, along with all her other functions that were designed to clean up unwanted things within her. In fact, her whole body was rejecting the impurities that it had previously incorporated. Tala blinked in shock as black sludge was pushed out of Kedva’s every pore, even leaking out of her eyes like black tears. It was oddly…
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Tala headed back toward Kit, her mind already returning to the task at hand. She was going to be initiating Kedva into the arcane path of magic. Tala decided to ignore Alat. As she did so, Tala saw Kedva run over to her parents, giving them each a large hug and talking quickly with them and Brandon. Even so, the girl was back at the entrance with Artia by the time Tala returned to her starting location and turned to face Kit’s door from the inside. She hadn’t even delayed her turn at seeing Rane…
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Tala tried not to groan as Anna exuberantly put forward her ‘wonderful idea.’ She was just glad that Segis and Metti weren’t there, otherwise the three children might have ganged up on their parents to push through some… unfortunate notions. “Why don’t we get Hannah in here? She’s a baker. Mistress Tala loves baked goods. It’s a win-win!” Even though Anna had seamlessly begun using Tala’s honorific, she still had the same warm air about her, even with the added formality to her…
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Tala left the Zuccats to catch up, before Anna had fully grasped her misunderstanding. Thus, Tala hoped to avoid the incoming awkwardness. She chose to leave during a moment when everyone was otherwise engaged to at least give the illusion of being polite. She then summoned a door out of Kit and exited into Alefast. The last few days had been a All this started because she wanted to distract herself from— She’d been doing so well. Tala turned around and stepped back into Kit, coming back out…
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Tala felt fully relaxed for the first time in days as she contemplated existence and her place in it. She knew a part of it was the setting. She was beside her infinite river, in a little dell, upon a stone that had been a part of her spoils of war. She recognized it as one that she’d taken from a garden in the main hold of the House of the Rising Sun. It felt like victory to sit upon it, knowing that generations of arcanes had used it for their meditation, and now it was hers. Tala blinked a few…
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Tala sat in her bathtub within her room, soaking after a morning stretch and exercise set. She was already having a busy week, and it looked to be getting busier still. She needed the moment of quiet reflection. Master Simon, Adrill, and Brandon were all busy testing not only the two humans’ first steps on the traditionally arcane method of advancement, but they also still had uncounted tests to run and readings to take around the very thing that had caused that as a side effect. Mainly, they were…
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Tala pulled out an Archive slate for Artia as she sat with the woman, Adrill, and Brandon. If Artia wanted to learn enough magic to allow her the benefits of aging more slowly, Tala would help her. There was There simply wasn’t the infrastructure in place to deal with the increased degradation of reality that having a large number of gates with increased throughput—without the mitigation of a Mage’s mindset—would bring about. Truthfully, the marriage between a Mage and a mundane was the most…
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