Hope everyone had a great Christmas
The room was dark. It smelled of dusty tomes and magic . That was nothing new but on this night the air was heavy with intent . It's walls were silent as it was witness yet another miracle. Of sorts. A miracle that had been done 10 years before.
..I hereby swear…
The words rippled through.
...that I shall be all the good in the world…
Time and space.
...defeat all the evil in the world…
Rin woke with a start. Her head absolutely ached. Blinking, the world refocused in front of her. Cradling her pounding head, she moaned slightly. Rin looked over to Vlad who was calmly reading a thick tome. He arched an eyebrow over a pale eye as she collected herself. He didn't make any comments which Rin was grateful for. Rin apparently was still somewhere stuck before being awake and asleep as he pointed a finger at her face.
Oh how... embarrassing. The spell she had been trying to figure out was stuck to her face. And of course the drool.
Rin rubbed her cheek softly trying to regain some feeling back into it. She had been spending more and more time in the expansive library to research. Which is what she was attributing the headache's too but she was starting to wonder if it was really. As Rin took in a deep breath, her mind was racing- still trying to figure out where she went wrong. To be fair, she was making a lot of modifications but still! But in the process of spending hours arm deep in books is how she met Vlad. Whom she had unwittingly walked into. Rin, on her part found his tale fascinating. He of course spared no detail in telling her his real story vs the fiction that she had been taught. Glancing at a far away clock, Rin cringed.
It was late .
Oh boy..
A noise at the end of her long table make her look up. Berserker stood there. Looking quite unhappy. He had more often than once- found her in the library; past her bedtime. Which was not appreciated by her main caretakers. Normally, Berserker would have made Rin walk back to her room. In a small form of punishment. Stumbling over her own feet as she was always half asleep. But seeing as how Atalanta was freaking out at the room- He didn't say anything when Vlad picked up the child and started walking.
Sighing loudly, he looked at the mess Rin had made. While he should leave it overnight and make her come back to clean it up. He knew Rin would have an enormous fit about it. Spouting nonsense about being a magus and her research being important. Reaching out, he grabbed a smudged piece of paper.
Thermological conversion rate of output in correlation…
Berserker shook his head at the scribbling through out the paper. Rin had broken down magic to numbers and letters. Such a studious that one. The witch Semiramis certainly had Rin laden with books all the time. In his opinion, with her talent, Rin didn't need such things. A little guidance but life and time were the best teachers. Rin would never live up to her potential with so many restrictions put upon her. But Rin had been taught differently growing up. Rules and regulations ruled her magic.
What a pity.
Possibilities: Jewel of the Realm, Hope Diamond, Heart of the Ocean…
While, he was not accustomed to Rin's specific type of magic; he did know magic. As a Berserker his magic tended to be on the darker side. But that didn't mean that it didn't work. In fact, if you asked him it worked better than most. Surely, easier than whatever Rin was trying to figure out. Grunting, Berserker's eyes drifted down the paper. Grabbing Rin's nearby pen, he made a single note before he collected the rest of her things.
Such a troublesome child, his Master was.
I was debating between this chapter and another.
Also the jewels were from pop culture. Muhaha.