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In this room are two women, one gray and sixty years old, one just thirty and red-haired, both wearing elaborate outfits. The younger casts a spell.
In this room is now also a third person. (On whom the elder woman promptly also casts a spell, which she had at the ready.)
Matilda in Elcenia
missnicegirl
...and yet, she can still see variously coloured glows on things, just as though the analysis was still active.
That's interesting.
She goes and finds Lavender, who turns out to also be glowing, in a different and less excitable mix of colours. She explains some of what's going on. She teaches Lavender some very simple witchcraft. Lavender makes several batches of elixir base using Earth-witchcraft. Matilda can see her do it, just as though the analysis was still active... except that the colours of the analysis weren't quite this clear, didn't have quite so much detail, didn't have the feeling of magic attached that is now becoming very familiar.
Matilda arrives for her next lesson with several batches of Earth-brewed elixir base and some exciting news. "My magic learned your analysis and now it can see itself!"
That's interesting.
She goes and finds Lavender, who turns out to also be glowing, in a different and less excitable mix of colours. She explains some of what's going on. She teaches Lavender some very simple witchcraft. Lavender makes several batches of elixir base using Earth-witchcraft. Matilda can see her do it, just as though the analysis was still active... except that the colours of the analysis weren't quite this clear, didn't have quite so much detail, didn't have the feeling of magic attached that is now becoming very familiar.
Matilda arrives for her next lesson with several batches of Earth-brewed elixir base and some exciting news. "My magic learned your analysis and now it can see itself!"
"That was fast! You only had it on for about an angle!" says Terali. "Is it learning to learn faster?"
missnicegirl
"I don't know! Maybe! It's exciting! And I think it's been learning to see itself better since then; I can already tell more things about when Lavender is flying or someone's making potions. I brought some batches of elixir base made on Earth for me and Raha to test."
"Well then, let's get you to Raha." And here is Raha, in her lab as always. She turns one of the units of elixir into more pep potion and feeds it to a mouse.
missnicegirl
It's completely ordinary pep potion.
"I guess this time it didn't feel like it needed to do anything extra," says Matilda.
"I guess this time it didn't feel like it needed to do anything extra," says Matilda.
Raha laughs and presents her with a recipe for a skin cream, although first she has to explain the witchy properties of coconut and issue safety warnings about coconut's interactions with other things.
missnicegirl
Matilda prepares a batch of the skin cream!
When she successfully adds the last ingredient, she... peers at it.
"...I think my magic has learned how to see witchcraft now," she says. "Maybe it remembers about the other analysis. I want to make something else now to double-check that I'm really seeing it."
When she successfully adds the last ingredient, she... peers at it.
"...I think my magic has learned how to see witchcraft now," she says. "Maybe it remembers about the other analysis. I want to make something else now to double-check that I'm really seeing it."
missnicegirl
Matilda makes it.
"Yes," she concludes, "I can see witchcraft. And I can definitely tell it's witchcraft and not my own magic. We might want to double-check with other people looking using different wizard analyses, but I'm pretty sure."
"Yes," she concludes, "I can see witchcraft. And I can definitely tell it's witchcraft and not my own magic. We might want to double-check with other people looking using different wizard analyses, but I'm pretty sure."
Raha gets Terali; Terali casts some analyses on herself. "Witch potion," she confirms. "None of your own magic. Matilda, do you want to name your magic, or maybe see if Fena can come up with a word for it?"
missnicegirl
"I can't think of very good names for it except, I don't know, 'Earth magic', and that's weirdly ambiguous in English... Fena can try naming it, maybe she'll have something better."
missnicegirl
Matilda goes home. Nothing new and exciting happens except for her drawing up her September schedule, which has fewer lessons in it because she's busy on weekdays. She manages to fit some in on afternoons, though.
She comes back for her next lesson and shows this schedule to Raha and asks Terali if Fena has been asked for a name for her magic.
She comes back for her next lesson and shows this schedule to Raha and asks Terali if Fena has been asked for a name for her magic.
"Fena says that English doesn't have a word for it yet besides generically 'magic', but that Draconic has been calling what you do 'ialdae'," says Terali.