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The plan had been for class to meet in the Danger Shop, but the day was far too beautiful to spend it cooped up indoors - Bob had had plenty of that, thank you very much. So, class had been ~~handwavily~~ informed to meet on the lawn instead.

"So." Bob eyed them all critically. "Last semester I taught a class on defence against magic. Where mostly what I learned was that half of you are far too nervous around magic to do any good with it, half of you take it for granted it can do just about anything, and just about all of you - look, are you teenagers or what? Don't you ever just...cut loose?" He sighed.

"So this time, we're using magic for fun. You'll be learning what it can and can't do, and hopefully getting a bit of a more accurate picture and a bit more at ease."

He looked around them once more and nodded. "Right. I'm Hrothbert of Bainbridge. You can call me Bob or Sir, whichever you prefer. Anders is my TA for the class, so any questions you don't want to ask me, ask him. Now I know you're probably all tired of introductions by now, but I don't care. Introduce yourselves, and let me know what magic you can do, what other talents you might have, what you're familiar with, and so forth."

He picked a random student and stared at them expectantly.

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"Lots of ways!" Bob pointed at her. "What sorts of things do you do for fun?"

"I train with the Hawks. walk patrol. Things like that," Kaylin said. "And back home I do a lot of betting."

"What sorts of things do you bet on?" Bob asked. "Games of skill? Chance? Races?"

"Stuff like when someone will have their baby or what the next fight will be about in the mess hall, or who'll be the next on the Sergeant's crap list... That kind of thing." She could - and would - bet on pretty much anything. She wasn't very lucky at it either.

Bob smirked. "Ever bet on that next fight, then start it yourself?"

She looked at him in horror. "Of course not! That would be cheating."

And sighed. "Plus it wouldn't count if I started it. You can't bet on yourself."

Bob's smirk turned into a wide grin. "But what if you started it yourself with magic, from across the room or when you weren't even there?"

"It would still be cheating," Kaylin said firmly. "And where's the fun in that?"

Besides, she couldn't beging to imagine even for a second how in the world she could make something like that happen with magic. Healing sure, even if she didn't know how she did it, she could do it.

She had no idea how she did the other stuff. The bad stuff.

Bob shrugged. "Not losing money? Having everybody wonder how you figured it out? What if," he suggested, "it weren't considered cheating? What if it were allowed, as long as nobody could figure out how?"

"If it wasn't cheating...? Maybe," she admitted.

"There you go." Bob grinned again. "It's not cheating here; it's expected."

Kaylin looked at him skeptically. "Okay..."

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