Shocked! Shuno falls out of her mana bubble, hitting the frigid stone floor with her back. Her mirror is on the fritz again, floating around in her now very loud cottage.
She rubs her sore back, waving her other hand at the malfunctioning piece of mana tech.
A pulsing light hits the mirror. It literally flips to the worst channel instead of turning off and Wynonna Willoughby is on, talking about the importance of the traditional trade of child humerus bone-wards.
Shuno tries the same spell again, another pulse of ineffective white light. She then tries to blast the accursed mirror into pieces.
It reforms as she had placed a self-repair rune on the mirror after the last time she had accidentally smashed it.
Frustrated, she casts a simple mute spell, to at least shut up that bog awful Wynonna, remembering too late that all mirrors reflect disruptive spells.
Unable to call for help, Shuno goes over the few spells she's learnt over the past month because of the constant malfunctions in her mirror.
The first few spells don't work, having nothing to do with the cause of this malfunction. Her fourth spell changes the rune settings back to the Alchemist settings who created it. Finally, Wynonna's voice flips off and Shuno can think about not having to listen to a traditional witch's opinion.
Shuno relaxes, floating into the air as she returns to her mana bubble...
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