Agostina, Domitilla, and Julia start asking questions about my magical training.
Yeah, no Im still practicing so exercises before I dive deeper into spells.
Domitilla seems to know so magic, apparently. Shes being tutored by her aunt.
Oh, you are going through the 23 Cantrips?
My brain kind of stops there.
No, really.
It kind of does.
Co again? I ask with a frown.
You are practicing the 23 Cantrips, right? Domitilla asks again.
23?
Ill censor myself for a second while I silently take it out with the book.
Just know that if you could read in my head and see my thoughts, you would probably be quite shocked by the number of profanities a person can co up with in a few instants.
Im still practicing the first one, I venture. I realized before that I have to be careful when I lie since there are so many truth-stones lying around this place.
Oh, the rotating [Lights]! Yeah, it took a few hours to get through that one.
Now.
What the f
Oh, I think it will take a few days to get through it, I scratch my head, embarrassed. Ok, maybe Im not that talented, am I?
Its also nice to know that apparently the Cantrips are still being used. I thought my to might be a little outdated.
You know that the 23 Cantrips have been around for millennia? They get passed down as the initial assessnt for talent. The fastest students can complete them in three weeks. Those are very talented people. Im still around the fifteenth and its been a month.
Dont I have 333 days for 529 Cantrips?
And she said she took hours for the first? Does that an that the difficulty will scale dramatically?
I think it shows that Im a bit down now and Domitilla suddenly looks like shes feeling bad for .
Oh, Joey, dont worry. It doesnt matter if you take a bit longer.
I an, girl, it kind of matters. If I take too long, Ill get literally zapped to death. How about that?
You want to be a [Baker], right? You wont need much magic for that! And look, I can show you how my first Cantrip looks like, it might help you gain a better understanding! Domitilla flashes a bright smile at while wildly gesturing with her hands.
Domitilla, you know that you shouldnt show random people your magic, Agostina looks coldly at her niece.
Oh, co on, its the first Cantrip. What is Joey going to do, conjure a [teor] out of looking at my two [Lights]?
Domitilla goes straight for the magic and conjures two small pale
Wow, those [Lights] really suck.
They are barely luminous. They wouldnt be able to light up pretty much anything, even in pitch-dark.
Domitilla focuses her gaze on the two and squints her eyes.
Now, the two [Lights] start slowly moving around with jerky movents and they barely do one full circle before they break down.
Ta-dan!
Have you ever wished you had so kind of chanical clock in the house that ticked really loudly? Why? Well, in my opinion, it fills the silence with a beautiful what the hell did I just see? thing when you suddenly go mute.
Well, thats sothing! I say aloud, smiling charmingly toward Domitilla.
Show what you can do now! I can help you! Domitilla volunteers.
Show her what I can do? Yeah, sure, let just show you how a random Human can summon two [Lights] brighter than a flashlight and then move them smoothly in one direction. Sure, why not? Its not like your aunt wouldnt start peeling my skin one layer at a ti to discover where the hell I learned to do that.
Im a bit shy, I smile and get an idea. Maybe you can co later to my apartnt and with so privacy, I could show you sothing.
Hell, I even add a wink.
This should save .
First, I fully expect to be thrown out by either Agostina or Julia after this bout of sexual innuendo. Second, this smoking-hot girl would never co alone after I said sothing like
Sure! she smiles brightly.
Goddamn, Im too charming, arent I?
This girl did one circle with two crooked [Lights]. Im not even sure she used the sa approach I have to move magic! I think she was just tossing the [Lights] around with her natural instinct. You cant do that, can you? I an, it doesnt count, does it?
Joey, if you lay one finger on my niece, Agostina starts saying before her sister shushes her up.
They are adults, Agostina. Dont be a prude! And he doesnt look half-bad for a human! Hell, had I been younger, I would have tapped that! Julia waves her off like nothing.
I am not entirely clear on whats happening, to be honest. I know that the food I was chewing entered the wrong hole and is now trying to choke .
When I recover from Julias comnt, Im still trying to understand how Domitilla can think that she completed the first Cantrip. You have to rotate the [Lights] for a minute without interruptions in their movents. She barely did one spin!
Am I actually talented? Or is it the book?
A warm feeling starts spreading throughout my chest.
Am I talented?
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