32nd of Spring 508AV
Leavou watched her mother’s aqua eyes watch her own. There was a small war battling behind the Konti’s eyes, and normally Leavou would love to cheer her mother up, the somber frown that pulled on the corners of R’yse’s eyes upset her. But she knew that at the moment, the frown was for her. It wasn’t that she had done anything wrong it was that she had wanted something. It was something that her mother had promised her for this day, but was obviously hesitant to give her.
So the fresh twelve year old was swinging her feet off the chair beneath her, but otherwise waiting silently for an answer or sign that they were going to begin. She was confident that she was going to get what she wanted, and unconcerned about why I worried her mother that she wanted it so bad. But the child was also patient, and so she waited, watching the finches flit from tree branch to tree branch outside their small cottage. Without warning R’yse stood, her stool skidding back against the stone floor, and she pulled a key from her pocket. In the same instant Leavou hopped up, an excited grin on the child’s face as she quickly stepped behind her mother, ready to tail her to the locked room.
“You know we will not be doing Alchemy today.” R’yse spoke, and Leavou’s heart deflated, and she looked up at the cold Konti.
“What-?”
“You have to know how the ring works, without the knowledge base, you won’t know how to do it on your own. If you want me to teach you anything of worth, you must know glyphing first.”
“Glyphing?” Leavou asked.
“Yes, come with me little one.” R’yse guided her into the laboratory, and Leavou bubbled up.
“Glyphing is not inherently magic, but it is a basis for learning nearly any other world magic, and for enhancing your personal magics.” R’yse spoke in a self-admiring voice that she tended to take on when she was displaying her skill, and the twelve year old was all ears. Within the laboratory, the twelve year old immediately turned for the Alchemy ring that stood in the center of the room. It was not too large, perhaps about one of her arms in diameter, with small charger plates, and intricate wrappings of D-wire around the cool metal. She logically knew it was not magical unless it was active, but the child still leaned close, unwilling to touch actually touch it. Reverence glowed in her black eyes, and she listened to her mother, but focused on the ring.
“Look Leavou, do you see the drawings on these?” R’yse leaned forward as well, tapping the triangular keystones. Leavou nodded, looking closer at them now. The metal on which they were carved was a pyramid shape that interrupted the smooth metal ring. But on the face of one side of these pyramids, there was a circular rune drawn. Within the layers of circles were different geometric shapes, and it was pleasing to the eye, but even she recognized that there was a meaning to these that she didn’t understand. Still, her curiosity was hard to maintain and she looked closer at them, trying to understand what the symbols meant.
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Leavou watched her mother’s aqua eyes watch her own. There was a small war battling behind the Konti’s eyes, and normally Leavou would love to cheer her mother up, the somber frown that pulled on the corners of R’yse’s eyes upset her. But she knew that at the moment, the frown was for her. It wasn’t that she had done anything wrong it was that she had wanted something. It was something that her mother had promised her for this day, but was obviously hesitant to give her.
So the fresh twelve year old was swinging her feet off the chair beneath her, but otherwise waiting silently for an answer or sign that they were going to begin. She was confident that she was going to get what she wanted, and unconcerned about why I worried her mother that she wanted it so bad. But the child was also patient, and so she waited, watching the finches flit from tree branch to tree branch outside their small cottage. Without warning R’yse stood, her stool skidding back against the stone floor, and she pulled a key from her pocket. In the same instant Leavou hopped up, an excited grin on the child’s face as she quickly stepped behind her mother, ready to tail her to the locked room.
“You know we will not be doing Alchemy today.” R’yse spoke, and Leavou’s heart deflated, and she looked up at the cold Konti.
“What-?”
“You have to know how the ring works, without the knowledge base, you won’t know how to do it on your own. If you want me to teach you anything of worth, you must know glyphing first.”
“Glyphing?” Leavou asked.
“Yes, come with me little one.” R’yse guided her into the laboratory, and Leavou bubbled up.
“Glyphing is not inherently magic, but it is a basis for learning nearly any other world magic, and for enhancing your personal magics.” R’yse spoke in a self-admiring voice that she tended to take on when she was displaying her skill, and the twelve year old was all ears. Within the laboratory, the twelve year old immediately turned for the Alchemy ring that stood in the center of the room. It was not too large, perhaps about one of her arms in diameter, with small charger plates, and intricate wrappings of D-wire around the cool metal. She logically knew it was not magical unless it was active, but the child still leaned close, unwilling to touch actually touch it. Reverence glowed in her black eyes, and she listened to her mother, but focused on the ring.
“Look Leavou, do you see the drawings on these?” R’yse leaned forward as well, tapping the triangular keystones. Leavou nodded, looking closer at them now. The metal on which they were carved was a pyramid shape that interrupted the smooth metal ring. But on the face of one side of these pyramids, there was a circular rune drawn. Within the layers of circles were different geometric shapes, and it was pleasing to the eye, but even she recognized that there was a meaning to these that she didn’t understand. Still, her curiosity was hard to maintain and she looked closer at them, trying to understand what the symbols meant.
