I get depressed if I think about Royale's trunk being gone. Not just because of the magic knowledge lost forever. Because he trusted me with it and I let it be destroyed. I failed him.
The only spell I remember from his notes that I never bothered to use he called amanuensis. I thought it was a weird magic word but it's a real word that means to copy something. I was able to cast it from memory to rewrite the girl's journal on some printer paper I found.
It seemed like a useless spell. But here I am using it. I wonder how many spells over the centuries have been dropped because someone thought that they didn't matter anymore. And how many of those discarded spells actually could be useful.
Most of the diary is teenage girl bullshit and religious bullshit. But that's only most of it. The main even is this. Religious girl saving herself for marriage finds out her BF is throwing the dick at anyone that stands still long enough to catch it. Distraught, she goes to her pastor for guidance and he tries to have sex with her. Distraught, she goes to her parents to tell them about the pastor and they call her a liar and a sinner.
This is where things get weird. She says that an angel appeared and told her where to look for a special book. She found the book and used it to cast a spell that sent the pastor to face "God's judgment". Sounds like a murder spell to me. She didn't call it magic though, she called it theurgy. Google says that's "a system of white magic practiced by the early Neoplatonists".
I wouldn't label a death spell white magic. And if angels are real, I don't think they tell you how to kill people.
This is the second teenage magician-murderer I've encountered that found a book that showed them how to do it. Can that be a coincidence? Magic is hard to learn with someone teaching you. I can't grasp how anyone could do it on their own just from a book.
If the detective catches her, I wonder if there's any chance she'll let me talk to her.
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