fandomhigh | Magical Theory and Practice, Friday, Period 3

Today's workshop was being held in a classroom. There was a hot Renaissance Faire goth standing at the front of the classroom when the students arrived, and when they sat down they would notice that each of them had a flower and a rock sitting on their desk. "Good afternoon," Yennefer said to her students. "I am Yennefer of Vengerberg, and this is..." She glanced at her notes, and then looked again. "Magical Theory and Practice. Bit of a joke in the class description, I see." Or was it? "Well, we might get to that. We'll see how it goes. For now, I will tell you that while I am new to instruction, I am a sorceress trained in the school of Aretuza, and have been an advisor to the king of Aedirn for thirty years." Yep, she was older than she looked.

"Being as we all come from different realities here, I expect we also come from different magical traditions, and that sticking too closely to what I was taught might be completely useless to you, but I believe that in broad strokes much of that information continues to be true, based on the fact that I have been able to do magic since I got here, so I will teach you starting from that foundation. First, I would like to know what I am working with. Everyone will please tell me their name, so I can check them off this list, and what their experience level is with magic, and a little of how they know it to work, and then we're going to do a little exercise. Any questions so far? No? Good."

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Jules absolutely did not giggle at 'familiar with familiars', no. Because that would be impolite.

"Camden and I are... connected. We each feel what the other feels." Which meant pissing Jules off would get a snarly mountain lion all up in your face. As Julius well knew.

"From what I've seen," she grimaced, "it's mostly used to influence the minds of others. Or control things. A friend of mine once tried to use a love spell on myself and... another friend," her expression went briefly sad. "It didn't go well."

Oh, also there was the fact that her mother had used low magic to bind Jules' war-gift so that the presence of two (very strong) gifts wouldn't end up driving her insane, buuuuuut she didn't actually know that part yet.

And what exactly was wrong with using magic to influence the minds of others? Don't answer that.

"Does she serve some sort of purpose for your magic, or is she merely a companion animal?"

"It's not-" Jules started to say, because gifts weren't magic. But Yennefer was a mainlander after all, and thus could be forgiven for not understanding the difference.

She shrugged. "My gift called her and bound her to me, when I was younger."

Yennefer still didn't understand how this was supposed to work, but she supposed the important thing was that Juillenne did. "All right, then."

It was all very 'a naturalist's familiar says something about their personality and the strength of their gift', basically. But it wasn't as if any of the gift worked through Camden (unless you counted her being sent to kill rabbits for dinner that Jules had charmed out of hiding), so she just nodded.

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