Ryuu showed us a card trick called "find a card", which was a perception trick. He explained that this was a fundamental exercise for mastering semblance magic, especially to understand object manipulation over mind.We broke into a team of four to practice the card trick. I was failing miserably with my efforts in my group with Alina, Jace and Charlie. I skewed my head over to where my brothers were drawing in a crowd of impressionable kids around them.
I pouted at Death"s easy ability to trick the ma.s.ses with his fancy and swift hand flourishes over the cards. A lot of the kids clapped and eagerly asked him to do it again, watching his movements intensely.
My mind wandered back to a memory of him performing this trick when we were younger to brighten up my day after being scolded by Bulldog for something. Magic tricks were always his forte.
Charlie handed me a note that drew my attention back to my group.
"Death"s cool. You"re lucky he"s your brother." I read.
I smiled and nodded.
I felt everyone"s energies perk up and figured the end-of-lesson bell had gone off; stood up and left the gym with my cla.s.s, feeling hungry. I hoped it was time for food.
"Lunch time." War signed to me that got my face grinning stupidly.
"Knew that"ll perk yah up." He slapped my back.
We entered the school building through the double doors and headed down a corridor where lots of other students were power walking towards the door at the end. I was baffled as to why.
Inside was a vast hall to hold three rows of long vertical tables with benches on either side separated by narrow aisles. At their head was one long horizontal table that was propped up on a low stage with the Evadale Knight Order star emblem flapping proudly on an enormous banner in the center of an all wooden wall.
On either side of the banner were three other banners with the common words of "Force", "Elemental" and "Semblance" written in silver on them and a symbol underneath.
The Force Banner carried the symbol of a flying bird, Elemental Banner showed the symbol of two fishes swimming in a circle about each other"s tails and Semblance Banner held an image of a sitting black cat whose green eyes were staring directly at us.
"Cat, bird, fish symbols." I mouthed.
"The house symbols for this school." Ryuu signed and advised that I"ll know more once I take my seat.
We filed into the room and followed Ryuu"s lead to a long table at the right of the room before the Semblance Banner. I sat in the middle near the aisle and table before the "Force Banner" with Death and Alina on either side of me. My heart sunk and stomach growled at the sight of an empty table, yet I could smell delicious cooked food coming from somewhere nearby.
Everyone was talking to each other in light conversation, except me who was deaf to their chatter. Well, I wasn"t in the mood to talk anyway, finding comfort in my own thoughts.
"Like, we can give you comfort, isn"t that right Small Cap?" Marilyn"s voice popped up in my head.
I heard Small Cap cheerfully agreeing with her.
"You guys can talk to each other?" I asked them in thought, not expecting on that possibility.
"Well, like, I"m connected to you, he"s connected to you in the belt pouch, so, duh?"
"Don"t be cheeky. Anyway, you"re a spellbook, what spells have you learned?" I threw back at her.
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"Like, Sweetie, I only learn, what I can see. So, we, like, totally need to see a translator book to absorb spells."
Marilyn showed me what a translator book was. It was a blue book made out of magic that was used to absorb and contain knowledge, temporarily, from the essence of a thing or person. My memory went back to the Juxtapositioner"s hovering blue book.
"Your memory is sharper. Yes, like, that"s a Translator Book, the knowledge lasts for a few months and, like, needs to be ported to a spellbook like me for permanency. And, like, yes, you can use spells out of that book without something like me."
"How many spellbooks are there anyway?" I was curious as I noticed not many other students (or knights) wore silver stud earrings or Albert chains.
"Not many. Like, we"re rare and super special, and, like only for the super duper cute and special masters." Marilyn answered with obvious pride.
"Fair enough."
A strong breeze brushed my cheek. I turned and faced the horizontal table at the front and saw Keiran and a few older men and women file in from a door to one side. Keiran a.s.sumed the central, head, seat at the table.
All the other old fuddy-duddies took to the seats either side of him. I saw Ryuu at the end of the table, closets to our view. I figured the table was for all the teachers.
One of the teachers ordered us to stand up. We all ambled to our feet and waited patiently for something else to happen.