Powers, Identity, and the World [Friday]

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...so neither of the teachers had turned up today. And while Celia was actually inclined to worry, she had more pressing concerns -- namely that she was third-in-charge, here, and thus had to be a TA in more than just name.

Thankfully, she'd always been good at thinking on her feet.

"Good morning," she said, offering a slightly nervous smile when it was evident that everyone who was going to be here was here. "Professors Starsmore and Heartilly weren't able to make it, but we'll soldier through all right, I think."

"So, I don't know about the rest of you," Celia offered, carefully arranging her skirts as she took a seat on the desk at the front of the room and demurely folded her hands in her lap, "but I'm fairly -- worried about the climate. I was here for spring last year, the island didn't do this then, and...and something's clearly wrong."

Fidgeting a little -- being the center of attention when she wasn't performing was awful -- Celia added, "And that's without tapping into my other senses -- I've been actively resisting dipping into how the atmosphere feels, magically, beyond my necessary day-to-day. But sometimes, that's unavoidable. Sometimes our powers come with an unfortunate sort of sensitivity to everyone or everything around us, and there's nothing to be done about it."

She made a face, rolling her eyes. "And sometimes one doesn't need to be gifted with an extra sense or two to tell that winter's going on forever, or that the island's not blooming the way it should. So how do you deal with external factors weighing in on you? Meditation? Sleeping? Hitting things?"

Celia shrugged a shoulder, and added, "I guess that's our topic of discussion today, unless you want to go out and try to figure out what's wrong with the island yourselves. I'm not really that kind of a magic user, so I'm useless, but if you can talk to trees, by all means feel free to go do so."

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Listen to the lecture [3/20]

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For a given value of "lecture."

Re: Listen to the lecture [3/20]

[not_every_mage]

Anders was unusually quiet in class today. He tried to listen to Celia, but really all he could think about was the weight of his phylactery against his chest. He'd put it on a chain by now, the better to ensure it couldn't be lost or stolen easily, but traveling with it too much still made him nervous.

So the weather on the island was bad, so what? He had the guarantor of his freedom. Nothing else mattered. (And if his magic was telling him something else about it, Anders was determined not to listen to it.)

Re: Listen to the lecture [3/20]

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Hanna was sleepy and twitchy. She'd been up again last night until all hours, listening to her mother's record. But now she was trying to figure out a place to hide it, or a way to record it, and she'd been hoping Jonothan would be here today to ask about it.

Maybe if she found multiple hiding places, she could be sure no one would find it, and she could always get to it.

Re: Listen to the lecture [3/20]

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Ha, focus? Elsa was sitting in the classroom, looking out the window longingly. It was a lovely day outside, wasn't it? Even if it wasn't, she really rather wanted to be out there, maybe taking a walk to the preserve to see just what she was capable of doing with her powers. She wanted nothing more than to really cut loose, but instead she was here, talking about the weather, as though there was anything the matter with a little more winter.

Maybe she could make it snow. Did today seem like a good day for a proper snow day? Was it just her? It couldn't possibly just be her...