A Familiar Void

Chapter 10

Night had fallen, the Sun had been replaced by the Twin Moons and the bright blue sky had turn dark. Louise and Bug trudged their way back to her dorm, the Mage running a hand through her hair grimacing as it felt more damp than she'd like. She looked at her Familiar, who besides a couple of droplets on its cloak, was completely dry.

'Pays to be a Water Spirit I guess," she noted in her head, ruffling her hair just a bit more.

The rest of the day after her trip to the principal's office was more than a little relaxing. She'd gone to Lunch with Bug, continued with classes after that making sure to take notes, went for Dinner and then headed for the Bath.

As they climbed the tower to her room, she thought about what she would do. Tomorrow was the Day of the Void, she'd have most of the day off, meaning she'd be able to put her words into actions.

Training her spells. How would she do that? Just blast away at all of the Spells that she knew? Try to find a book with all known Water Spells just so she could use her affinity to get the hang of it?

Everything she's casted so far had resulted in explosions, even with her focusing on Water Spells.

Maybe she could find some that were for explosions?

"Back from a bath Louise?" A voice called from three doors down, knocking her out of her thoughts. Kirche stepped out of her room, wearing an outfit so inappropriate that she'd cover Bug's eyes if it wasn't a Familiar.

"Zerbst" Louise growled. Just as she was able to enter her room to.

The red head looked at her nails "How was the water?" She glanced up from them "Bet it felt nice didn't it?"

Taken aback, she could only nod "Yeah, it was a nice bath."

"Wanna know why it felt so good," she didn't allowed her to reply, instead Kirche smirked and continued "It's because of a Fire mage can enchant the bath so that it stays nice and worm, while a Water mage can keep the water pure and fresh. A marvel of magic, isn't it?"

"I," Louise's eyebrows furrowed as she turned towards the Germanian "I know how the bath house works, you don't have to explain it me."

"Do you now?" She sounded surprise, placing a hand over her mouth "Well it's just with how little you can use magic, I thought you'd be clueless about it as well."

Louise gritted her teeth "Is that all?" She asked, pointing at her "Did you really leave your room, looking like a skank so you can mock me?"

"Of course, I mean after all," she lowered her hand and grinned "It'll probably be too soon when you have to leave the academy Louise, especially with how you hurt the professor today." A hand went to her chest "Did you hear? he almost broke a rib from your mistake. Truly something that can only be done by a Zero."

"Not soon enough unfortunately for you," she shot back "Principal Osmond was willing to forgive me for what happened today."

"They're letting you off the hook again?!" Kirche pushed away from her door, stomping her feet "Why?"

Louise shrugged "Who knows," she opened her door. She jerked her head inside, allowing Bug to enter and as she was about to step inside as well she looked her in the eye "Maybe if you actually studied and be a good student instead of just sleeping around, you'd get the same treatment."