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Week 47 - Trial
Mar. 31st, 2014 11:52 pmGreat Barr Hall,
Warwickshire,
August 17, 1791
It didn't take long for Roy to realise that learning magic, at least in this world, was not as simple as waving your hands about and reciting funny words in order to make things happen. He wished that was all it was, but this system seemed to be endlessly complex and bureaucratic, with academies and degrees, and a level of scholastic achievement he was unprepared for.
He hadn't been the most attentive of students when he was young, and was generally better when left to his own devices. But he'd been forcibly dragged into another universe and told he had to learn magic now, whether he wanted to or not, for reasons that went beyond what he was able to comprehend, and all it did was make him resent what he was meant to be doing. Still, lacking any other options of what he was meant to do with his life in this strange universe, he grudgingly did as he was told, because Roy was not the sort of man who could abide being left alone with nothing to do.
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Warwickshire,
August 17, 1791
It didn't take long for Roy to realise that learning magic, at least in this world, was not as simple as waving your hands about and reciting funny words in order to make things happen. He wished that was all it was, but this system seemed to be endlessly complex and bureaucratic, with academies and degrees, and a level of scholastic achievement he was unprepared for.
He hadn't been the most attentive of students when he was young, and was generally better when left to his own devices. But he'd been forcibly dragged into another universe and told he had to learn magic now, whether he wanted to or not, for reasons that went beyond what he was able to comprehend, and all it did was make him resent what he was meant to be doing. Still, lacking any other options of what he was meant to do with his life in this strange universe, he grudgingly did as he was told, because Roy was not the sort of man who could abide being left alone with nothing to do.
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