The Ether-Knight's Lessons

28

.^^ Aztecan Lindwyrm ^^

— Idun —

"I don't understand this... truly. You ingest the highest-level texts on the many rare, incredibly challenging subjects of magical knowledge like a drowning sponge, you forge, with little to no instruction, rare, metaphysical metals, you create your own Chimera, but Collegiate Mathematical Comprehension is beyond you?" Eliza growled at me, leaning away from her own textbook, where she was trying to tutor me for the Exam I was being forced to retake, which I'd failed by only three points.

"Look, it's different, okay? Magic comes natural to me! Math doesn't! Simple!" I sighed, rubbing my forehead.

"Maybe think of it like Magical Equations. They're based on the same formulas, most of them." Glass offered.

"Except I skip useless steps in Magical Formulas, and that doesn't work in Math." I replied, and dropped my face into the book.

"Well, you also don't even know the basics of Math, because you were never taught them." Brigit turned a page in her book.

"True..." I had thought that book was a textbook all this time, but was apparently, (according to my reading her mind, which I was still trying to master,) a BDSM Porn Novel. "Oohlala! Brigit, I knew you were kinky, but..."

She blushed, and blocked my mind. "You're the worst type of person to have Telepathy. No tact."

I shrugged. "Shame is for the weak, my dear. Banish it. For example, I, too, like my hair pulled during sex. Maybe you'll get to see the rest of my kinks? Friday, 6 o'clock, poolside?"

She choked on her drink, and then stood swiftly, walking away.

Orissa laughed loudly, slapping her thigh. "You made that little icicle blush!!! I knew I liked you!"

"Ah well. Anyway, I need to learn basic math. Is there a remedial course? Or... like a kid's class?" I asked.

Glass nodded. "There is, Yes. It actually starts in a week or so, because that's the summer semester. New, younger, students usually go through it, and exempt themselves. I'll talk to the Dean about you attending. Take the exam, though, see if you can pass. Once you finish this course, you technically don't have to do any more math classes, unless you join the Ritual Magic Campus, in Rome."

"Which I won't, so that's good news." I grinned, and buckled down for some more learning about 'Tangent', 'Sine', and 'Cosine'.

—

"You need something." I said simply.

Darien and Syral looked at each other, and sighed. "Yes..."

"What is it?" I asked, calmly turning a page in my journal, and drawing the Crystalline Kit in front of me in as much detail as I could.

"Well- no, you go first. Thanks." They spoke simultaneously, and reached a compromise.

"I need you to handle a situation in Glasgow." Syral nodded.

"And I need a sample of said situation in Glasgow." Darien grinned.

"Alright... Syral, Darien, my Reply: I want more than a cave complex. I want to own a small, mobile Separate Dimension Planet, accessed through a small mirror, which can hold the Ecosystems of my Dragons and Chimera, as well as my own personal Laboratory, and have room for some other stuff I'll be collecting, so my room can begin to look more like my room again." I said easily.