Most Likely A Refuge

[whatamithinking]

It was probably safe.

The bar was...unusually reticent, in the lower layers of her mind (and she hadn't pried further; she wasn't sure if she'd be noticed; she wasn't sure if offending would get her kicked out, and regardless of whether it was actually safe it was safer than anywhere else she'd been for the past...three years?) so she couldn't be sure this place wasn't really a trap of some kind, but the higher layers gave a plausible explanation that didn't involve being a trap, and whatever else it was warm and dry and had food. Her guard was probably a full 25% down. Positively trusting, these days.

Comments

[onceandforall]

"Awesome. Magic lessons."

[ragexserenity]

"...It's possible that it would be best to outline a reasonable curriculum and have you learn from what the Ancients knew. They possessed feats of magic unmatched in the modern world. And I've never taught before, and--my own teacher did not set a good example."

[onceandforall]

"How was all this information lost?"

[ragexserenity]

"No one knows. People find ruins of the Ancients' civilization sometimes, and Artifacts, but very rarely any writing, and if anyone has translated any of it I haven't heard of it."

[onceandforall]

"So there was basically some kind of apocalypse?"

[mindovermagic]

"That's sure what it seems like."

[onceandforall]

"Hhhhow worried should I be about causing apocalypses with magic."

[mindovermagic]

"Good question! Bar, are there any available documents that could shed light on this subject."

[alicornucopia]

Records indicate a prolonged war before the ultimate collapse of the civilization.

[mindovermagic]

"...So maybe be careful who else you make a sorcerer, but besides that you're probably fine."

[onceandforall]

"Noted."

[mindovermagic]

"I'm vaguely curious what happens if you sorcerer somebody and then the loop resets them but I think that goes on the list of things that are a bad idea to test."

[onceandforall]

"Kinda, yeah. I'm not even positive I'll keep it, since it sounds like it applies to the body, but it's worth a go."

[ragexserenity]

"Very well."

He doesn't do anything visible, but after a moment, Bella's whole body begins tingling. A moment after that, it intensifies, with an extra helping in her eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and the most sensitive places on her skin.

[onceandforall]

"Wow, warn a girl."

[ragexserenity]

"...Sorry." He looks vaguely uneasy.

[onceandforall]

"It's okay, just tingly."

[mutatis_mutandis]

"What's tingly?" Charlotte asks, coming back in wearing a circlet with a blue stone in the front.

[onceandforall]

"The spell."

[mutatis_mutandis]

"Which one?" she asks, closing the door behind her.

[onceandforall]

"I don't know, he didn't actually say, for all I know the painkiller feels like nothing and he cast before it without me noticing."

[mutatis_mutandis]

"...Ah."

[ragexserenity]

"The painkiller and the ensorcering."

[onceandforall]

"It's very tingly."

[ragexserenity]

"Good."