Exams: happen. They happen a lot, over a too-long time, in Sadde's opinion. An unnecessarily large amount of time, really.

And the cards, of course, do not let up. They couldn't, could they? One month and a half. That's all Sadde wanted, one month and a half not having to worry about cards, but nooo, they had to appear.

How supremely annoying.

(Except for, you know, the part where they're getting magical powers and becoming awesome. That part's great.)

So, by the time summer holidays roll out, in addition to the cards they'd already had, they've captured the Libra (can tell truth from lies), the Song (sings very prettily and can steal voices), the Storm (can generate and/or control storms), the Wood (can generate and/or control plants and forests), the Through (would've been pretty useful to capture the Create), the Sweet (makes sweets. really.), the Flower (makes flowers, yep), and the Move (moves things). The variability in these cards' usefulness is staggering, Sadde thinks.

And an idea's been cooking in his mind.

So one afternoon, with no active cards in sight, while practicing magic, he looks up at Theo and says, "You know, I've been thinking."