One of the hertasi intercepts her in the hallway and leads her to Urtho's office. "Congratulations! I heard you are newly a mage?" 

"Yes, it happened yesterday!"

"What excellent news!" And he ushers her to Urtho's office, and knocks. 

There are puttering footsteps, and then Urtho answers the door - and immediately lights up. "Azabel! Goodness, haven't you grown. Come on in. - Tea?" 

"No thank you."

He waves his hand vaguely, and sits, gesturing at the armchair opposite. "So, it seems your mage-gift awakened after all. How are you feeling about that?"

"I'm excited! Mages can do neat things. Except I'm not so sure about concert-work, is that required?"

He blinks at her, puzzled. "- Well, it is an upper-forms course, you would not be expected to take it until you were ready. Why, do you have concerns about it being difficult...?" 

"No, I just worry about leaking thoughts and stuff."

"Ah." Urtho doesn't especially look as though he understands. "I see. Well, in any case the upper-level courses are not mandatory and it is up to you what you want to take, but you can consider it then at the appropriate time. ..."

(Long pause.)

"May I check your Gifts, now?"

"Go ahead." Why is everybody so confused about this all the time? Surely if you want people to know what you are thinking the thing you do about that is you say it and under circumstances where you're not doing that it is obviously undesirable for thoughts to escape. Well, Lionwind is not confused, Lionwind thinks she's very responsible, so probably someone agrees with her and that's what being responsible is for.

Urtho rests his hand on top of her head, and is quiet for a long moment. 

"- It looks to me that you will have an Adept-strength mage-gift!" he says finally, leaning back and beaming. "Congratulations!"

Adepts are the ones who can use nodes, right, in storybooks that's very important. Mostly for big pointless fights but that's just how stories are and probably she will also be able to build towers and elevators and do Gates, which are cool. "Awesome!"

He pulls back, looks into her eyes. "Have you had any difficulties with control, so far?"

"No. The first thing I did was shields. And I've looked at stuff with the new Sight. Nothing else has happened."

"Good for you! I suppose it is known to help, having other Gifts and training with them already. I will send notice for you to be entered in one of the introductory mage-classes for those with Adept potential -" 

"I am taking care of that now, Master Urtho!" the hertasi in the corner chirps, making a note. "Miss Azabel, you should receive a note by first thing tomorrow with the class schedule."

"Great! When does it start?"

Urtho gives her a proud, fond look. 

The hertasi pores over the piece of paper for a moment. "You can join in with the ongoing session at the start of next week!"

"Conveniently, I think there will even be at least one other new student joining with you."

The hertasi fusses with another folded booklet. "Yes, Master Urtho, that is right. I wish you all the best, Miss Azabel!"

"Who's the other new one?"

Urtho gives the hertasi a questioning look, receives an apologetic headshake. "Oh, goodness, it seems I am blanking on his name! A youngster from Predain. I think with much less education than you, Azabel - perhaps you could help him to catch up."

"Well, sure, if I can find him! It'll waste a lot of time I could spend on doing that if I don't even know his name to ask where he is. Does he speak Tantaran - or have Mindspeech -"