The obstacle course went well today. They've been experimenting with adjustments to the formation that leave Julian less exposed. He'll have to go in front as long as he's the one actually casting the time-spear spell, but Naima managed to buy an energy shield off an artificer from Münich with a personal defense affinity in exchange for regenerating his right hand and it's been a big help in their runs. The stealth spell still needs some tweaks – Malak has it down, of course, but Julian thinks he can weave in a layer of concealment illusions and get a bit of an efficiency boost out of Julia. Not that they need it. New York is overflowing with mana this year, and they're expecting another flood the instant Orion hits the graduation hall, but you don't get out the gates if you're not prepared for the worst case scenario. He keeps the post-mortem short. They still have stuff to work on, but it's the same as their last five runs, and they haven't had a real close call since May.
It's starting to feel like they might actually live.
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