Khy'eras

Standing at the counter, Poppy leaned over to Colle, who had just returned from delivering two pastries. “Uh, is it just me or are we having a sudden heat wave?” Colle chuckled. “Not just you, it’s Harroc. Something about his magic makes his temperature rise if he’s energetic or excited or something...

Rory frowned. She remembered there being some discussion about methods somewhere in the front of the book, but she couldn’t recall what they were. Grabbing the book she opened it to the right page almost immediately. “Um, empowering, reinforcing, and imbuing?” If Harroc was asking about this, maybe ...

Rory returned, pushing a stack of crumpled paper onto the table. She scowled. “I still can’t find last night’s notes. Do you think they might have gone over the platform?” “I did not see any, but I was preoccupied with protecting Colle,” Harroc said with a small shrug. “Were any not something you ca...

Rory tried to parse what Harroc said about the lines. She wasn’t sure how to put power into the lines; the nodes were a fixed point and it was somehow easier for her to picture. Sitting back, she played with the image of taking a blob of magical energy and stretching it out to coat the line, like ca...

Rory saw Harroc talking to the girl at the counter and then Colle, who looked really happy. When he lifted the Fae baker into his arms and held them tightly, Rory had to stop herself from doing a victory dance. Whether Colle had actually taken her advice or not didn’t matter to her; what mattered wa...

Rory choked back a laugh. ‘Rest’? The only reason she’d gotten any sleep was because her body had forced her to do so. “Um, I had some things I was looking over,” she replied, pulling out her notebook. She flipped the pages open, trying to find the one issue she had most wanted to fix. “So - this ex...

Rory had gotten lost on her way back to the cafe and had to ask for directions twice. It wasn’t completely her fault; she’d only been there once after all, and she was so very tired. After inveigling the loan of the book from the cafe manager - Colle? - she’d been up all night reading and working wi...

Harroc was trying to cajole another pastry from Colle, who seemed more than happy to give in. When he purred while eating, Rory had had to fight very hard to keep from chuckling at him. He’d been very kind to talk to her and explain some of the fundamentals of druid magic - which she suspected might...

“Intent powers druid magic, then,” Rory scribbled down in her notebook. She hadn’t found much to read on druidic magic, and Harroc had explained why. Considering the issue, she still felt that a better solution would have been to restrict access to the repository than to have none at all. “Still a ...

“It’s the understanding and intent that drives druid magic, as much as the words,” Rory muttered, half to herself. “Interesting. So if you were to say the words without the intent behind it, does nothing happen? Or does the intent give you more of a way to control the magic, like keeping a fire fro...