Question Like A Candle in the Wind

Mrs. Ryan being totally unexpected as the costume instructor continues! NICE!

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Oh hey! It's Dawn! And Adam! How sweet!

And he wants a promise of protection for her! Aww! ... It'd be an Awesome surprise if it's revealed that she can take care of herself!

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I forget if its been said before, but Iron Athames seem so weird, given how Iron disrupts a lotta types of magic. So, obviously, they're using magics that aren't disrupted by it? ... Also a very broad-spectrum anti-magic weapon.

If any of them could use an Ebidium Athame... WOW. ... Are any of them strong enough to even lift such a thing?

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Woah, nightmares for both of them. What a pair.

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Bribing Smokey! Lol!

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Jealous Michelle! Interesting! ... Have we seen her before??

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I thought the groupings might have had bad results, but no, it seems really good! At least for this group...

"This gives you privacy." She gave AJ a look. "Later on, you'll find some operations work best while naked. So if you don't want to give the boy and his dragon a free show..."

Ship Bianca and AJ soo much!

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Hey! It's Jamie! And she's found friends! ... Or so it seems? I wonder how much they know and stuff? ... Jamie as pawn in her "friends'" scheme?

Tia still doesn't want to see Jamie harmed. Just usual feelings from a boy towards a reasonably good girlfriend? Or mental-conditioning / something more??

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Hey, Nephandus! So, given that he's in this story, He's gonna go back to Whateley at some point? ... Is someone else gonna summon Thulia up, for info??

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IIRC, Wondercute found the invisible bunnies already? Or is that after this? ... If they found it, they haven't told anyone else?

... Like, are there any spells that wouldn't explode if engineered wrong / right??

It's like any other bit highly energetic result of mutant manufacturing?

Although, power sources aren't usually that unstable and stuff?

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Aww! Thulia and Morgana meeting again!

... Wait... That Candle ash... Being blown away by the Wind. ... Is that how the title connects??

That ending! So much DidYouJustHaveSex!

Ouch, Tanya and Bianca not talking to each other and not even Morgana's attempts to get them to have worked. Costume class having a lot of kids with some form of GSD, interesting. *chuckles at the description of Mrs Ryan* Nice tech upgrades for the class as well. A full-sized hologram of Lady Astarte to demonstrate and explain as they go along, yikes, that has be painful for her.

Mr. X, nice look. Love the discussion on the various type of costumes. Brillantine, very nice superhero name. Dr. Doom, how has that guy kept ahead of Marvel's lawyers? Ekene, nice to see her again. No general homework, now that is a different class. A trenchcoat with protective glyphs for Bianca, can't wait to see that.

Saturday and wake up just after 2 am, that is just wrong. Bianca having a nightmare, hope counseling is helping her. *wipes brow* Good thing Morgana knows how to deal with Bianca in that state and safely wake her up. These two need each other. Nice trick for heating water to make hot chocolate, Morgana is getting better control. Bianca has a very good point about using their essence for how. I wonder how many hobgoblins get unleashed because of students early on not expending their essence when they haven't learned how to probably store it yet.

Aww, those sound like cute hobgoblins, little flaming dragon-bird things would be an interesting drawing. And just how many layers of sheets does Bianca have on her bed that Morgana thinks it is smothering? Whoever leaked Bianca's background is going to have a lot of people gunning for him when it gets out. [Yes, I know who it is, just forgot the name right now.]

Bianca attracted to iron, the only thing we know so far which makes seen is her use of blood in her glyphs. Though I wonder if it could be something else. Mithril piece not doing much, could be origin or Grimms thinking Bianca is more dragon and thus it would react to her. Hehehe, Morgana sure loves teasing her best friend.

Nice, simple athame for Bianca. A handle of wrapped wire, good thing Morgana's skin is tough. Dawn got an athame with a copper blade, healers are always needed. And Morgana did that last night, guess she gets to reading something interesting and zones out some like me.

"And the best symbol for a sharp knife is...a sharp knife!"

And Adam coming in on that line, Razor's little brother grew up to be a big goof like him.

And I'm betting Adam knows about athames due to Sandra's influence. Adam doesn't approve of Costuming class, thinks you shouldn't be afraid of showing who you are, growing up with Outcast Corner as family certainly shaped his outlook. *sigh* Adam, calling someone a pretty like that, thought you would have learned better. Nice horns, doubt anything will faze Adam.

"OK, no worries. I won't tell Dawn her boyfriend is an exhibitionist..."

Bwahahaha, nice zing.

Adam asking Morgana to look out for Dawn in magic class from those girls who have a problem with GSD cases. And Morgana would have done it anyways without him asking. Adam has it really bad for Dawn, the poor boy is smitten.

Monday at Magic Lab. Blood kits along with their athame, eep. Group assigned workroom keyed to them, hope they get to chose their own groups or I could see things getting messy. Hermione asking such a question, needing to cleanse and re-attune their athame, interesting. Guess they are like any other tool, needing maintenance.

Spiral staircase down, curious how far it goes down at the deepest point myself. *eyes bug out* Dang, attuning them to the doors for their workroom that way, guess when magic is involved blood is safer to seal than a simple thumbprint. A minute because some of the students had trouble following the instructions, oh boy. Please say Gwen is in the group with Morgana and Bianca.

Calista showing them their new workspace, room split into 3 that way, nice. Aww, AJ in their group, at least there is a privacy screen they can trigger. Slate floor, cool. Storage chest and chest for each of them keyed to the one who uses it, nice. Smokey the curious dragon has a nice ring to it. Interesting details on how to cleanse their athame with running water. Oil to use on Morgana's athame, Calista is very informative.

Ah, so these are just the simplest cleansing rituals for new items, learn others later as needed, can't wait. Oooo, protective circles, and I knew attuning to their athames would require them drawing blood with it from themselves, strong attunement seems to require a personal connection. For something so "simple", that seems pretty awesome to watch.

Calista's athame looking silver, mithril I'm guessing, a large blue jewel as a pommel, now that is a piece of artistry. Specialized in water magic and this is her third athame, whoa. Slip under your pillow when you sleep, that doesn't sound safe imo. And homework on the theory of all this, at least it is an interesting subject.

Hermione and Estelle making pitiful insults, paying Smokey in meat sticks to mess with them, too funny. Climbing in the girls' hair and Smokey zipping back to his perch when Grimes comes through the door, loving Smokey more and more. AJ chiding Morgana for briding his dragon into beating up people, Bianca calling her a bad influence, I would have done the same thing to those two.

Learning how to start casting protective circles and shields, great answer by AJ on why they are so important. Practicing the basics over and over, good to do so until it becomes almost second nature imo. Different subsets of protective spells, interesting, always wondered why Wiz-types couldn't just throw up a shield from everything spell all the time. Small, aimed jet of water and powerful nerf guns, interesting way to train. Learn why the inbuilt spells of Bianca's are different from the ones in the books, good goal.

BMA and Morgana facing Crysis, no powers from the sounds of it. Boy, predictable attacks like that and Morgana taking him down that easily, Crysis needs to learn to mix things up. Uh oh, powers allowed for the second and third round, with how Crysis glared at her he is going to try and harm her over his bruised ego. TK moving Morgana through the air and gets grabbed by her foot claws, dragged along with her outside the ring for a draw.

And even more pissed at Morgana, Crysis needs to learn not to take things done in class or while training so personally. Slamming her into the hardwood floor well outside the ring, he better get called on that. Cheek on fire, arm numb from absorbing the fall, anyone less durable and he could have killed them. Great, can't call the little creep out on it, just what Morgana doesn't need, another thug messing with her.

In the Workshop tunnels, Morgana trying to follow directions given to her by Laura, going to see Laura in her workshop, Workshop 12. Who is the kid staring at Morgana? Boy, Laura is chipper while in the workshop, all this to get a perfect fit for earplugs for Morgana. Laura even scanned herself already for a pair. Hope this works against the sonic weapon like they plan.

Ugh, some girl giving Morgana trouble for being down there and not being a gadgeteer or devisor. And the boys defending her because she is a hot babe, cute she doesn't realize that herself. Ouch, with Michelle saying that poor boy had best clam up now before he digs that hole any deeper.

Steve asking about Morgana, oh boy. And Steve gets teased by his friend, poor teenage boys around girls who have 'filled out' for their age. And those dares, hope none of them try to ask Morgana out.

Morgana worried about going to a movie with Vixen, Bianca saying to have fun and stop worrying, wonder how it will go. Hehe, those two are cute together, getting Morgana to blush like that is adorable.

Movie in the dorm, sitting on a couch cuddled close to Vixen, so cute. And all the other couples cuddling, with Morgana able to see it clearly with her vision. Awww, Vixen not the girl Morgana wants to be cuddling with. Not heard from Thulia since she left London, don't tell me the wards around Whateley are preventing it. Awww, kissed by Vixen and stiffened up.

Dang, Morgana in tears and apologizing to Vixen, at least Vixen is understanding and says to stop blaming herself. Still has it bad for Thulia, poor Morgana. Ouch again, not knowing if Thulia has forgotten about her. Bwahaha, took Vixen suggesting it for Morgana to think of using magic to contact Thulia. And like Vixen, level head on that girl.

Back at the dorm room with Bianca, at least now Morgana knows what she needs to do, hopefully she can get ahold of Thulia without issues. *sigh* Number of things that could go wrong, willing to take risks to herself if it means talking to Thulia again. What a teen in love will do.

The Whateley Library has its own version of the Dewey system, interesting. Hhhm, some of the tech books are in the restricted section, wonder what subjects they cover. Grimes upset at a magic track student's area of research, heaven forbid. Dang, reading stuff and copying things from books she lost track of time until 9:30 PM. Morgana is a night owl, heh. Whoa, wish regular libraries could set up a system that fast for checking out books.

On the path back to Poe and three people under a tree who stare at Morgana. And of course it isn't just a group standing around, step to intercept her. Short, mousy girl, what does she want to talk to Morgana about? Ugh, calling one of their group dangerous, another one of these idiots. Morgana thinks it is about Bianca again, and calls Tia both slut-bunny and a thing, a plant by the MCO, ugh. Saying to stay clear of Tia, *sigh*, can't escape even at Whateley. At least Morgana is a loyal friend, all these kids need them, especially Bianca, Morgana, and Tia.

Crystal Hall and Morgana looking for Tia, Underdogs table, wonder what Victor and Taka are talking about, is it really girls or something else. Why is Bailley staring at her food, did I forget something from a previous story or what? The Underdogs slightly worried by Morgana coming to their table, good grief.

Getting Tia to join the rest of the group at M3's table, wait a minute, the description from earlier didn't mention blonde and decent looking but no exemplar, would have figured out it was Jamie by that. Trying to turn Tia's friends against her and has minions already, very not good. And now Tia has to tell her tale once again. At least some of the staff are looking into why Jamie Howe is at Whateley, hope they can find the truth soon.

With how crazy Jamie is, I wouldn't put it past her to start spreading slanderous lies about Tia's friends soon. Laura actually broke her circuit board in half, she must be furious over what Jamie did to Tia and hiding it. That thoughtful look by Erica has me a bit worried though, what might so do to Jamie or is she thinking of what the ray could do if modified.

Tia not wanting to do anything, hoping Jamie gets the help she needs and Jamie can't even carry weapons. I wouldn't put it past her to find a way around that. Erica, Bianca, and Morgana wishing to act first, Tia not wanting anyone getting hurt on her account, awww. Tia hanging with the Underdogs to avoid Jamie targeting her friends, doubt that will help much. Erica finding out details on Jamie, hope she finds out some details Jamie has hidden about the nature of her powers which gets her sent back to juvie.

Tanya leaving right as Bianca sits down, with an excuse like that, they need to talk already. Bwhahaha, Morgana just putting it out straight to Tanya and Tanya trying to be stubborn in the face of hurricane Morgana. And finally getting Tanya to see some reason, bringing up the Wardens warning about people like that, the world isn't black and white, Tanya.

*wipes brow* For a moment there I thought Morgana and Tanya were in trouble. Meet and greet some latecomers, meeting them at Berlin airport, no, I won't say it. Potential Rager and one from Iceland as well, so many ways this could wrong.

Darn, go straight to Thursday, what happened with the late arrivals or will that be shown in a different story. Boy, I would love to assemble a tower of pancakes. Tanya nervous about being at the table with Bianca there, she needs to remember she is her friend over all else. A party for them and to meet her friend Sterling, hope there is no trouble. The far side of the lake and Mr. Barton grilling for them, nice. Morgana going to be sneaky, the wards end short ways from the far side of the lake, interesting detail. Wonder who else has taken note of this.

Morgana is still trying to get everyone on board with her casting a spell, though it doesn't sound like the one to contact Thulia to me. Ah, use a spell to make one of the Invisible Bunnies visible, cute.

Hermione and Estelle spying on them, see the parchment which Morgana is holding and plan to make her mess up the spell, won't say what I would call these two. Hermione arrogantly thinking she already knows how to use a wand, despite Grimes' warning, this girl needs a big dose of humble pie. Zap Morgana as she starts the spell, she is going to regret this.

Oh good, the spell only has to hit an area, hitting an invisible target otherwise would be a matter of luck. Even if Morgana screws it up it should only not see anything and she looks like a fool, Hermione is going muck this up into something bigger.

Oh crud, shock caused Morgana to go automatically Dragon form while casting a spell. Noooo! That poor invisible bunny, all because Hermione messed with Morgana. Tia looking really hurt because of this, even something simple that would have been fun and cute gets ruined by Hermione.

Imp and Caitlin out there, Imp saying there aren't any rules in the handbook about blowing up bunnies, *sighs along with Caitlin* Caitlin going over to confront Morgana, thinking this was deliberate, Morgana saying it was an accident and Caitlin's upset, what if it had been a student. At least Morgana is able to explain what happened, if only Hermione was caught. *sigh* Poor Morgana, Caitlin going to tell Grimes about this, even Morgana afraid of how it felt to have that much power and fire pushed into the spell against her control. And poor Tia still seems shell-shocked.

Nimue Club in London. Magister Olrun there to meet his contact, Nephandus is his contact, dang, he survived this long. Gathering information for them, about the project by the Order of the Red Ba'al, at least the information he gained is limited, so no idea of Thulia and Morgana. If they order him to get information from AEGIS under Alpha level security, they are up to no good themselves imo.

Going after the mercenaries who worked at the base of operations for the project, even though they should have been executed already. Dirty dealings over in England if two of them still live anyways, delivered to someone who wanted them to suffer. And still alive, just what has their purchaser so distracted? Rescue the men and promise them release later, but dispose of afterward anyways, really don't like Olrun and those he works with. And Nephandus working with his father, guess some are hard to get rid of.

Taking Bianca with her to the lakeside after sunset, time to cast the spell and Morgana worried Thulia isn't interested in her anymore, *sigh* Outer circle in salt, and whoa, the ritual is awesome to watch. Even using her own blood as part of the ritual, Morgana went all out. Dragon form and lighting a candle, focusing on everything she recalls of Thulia and her feelings for her.

Thulia comes through the flames, kissing Morgana on the lips immediately. Remnants of the candle from London plus her blood, guessing the ritual would have been much more difficult and draining without those. Darn, that is why she didn't contact Morgana, went a little outside what she is allowed to do and got in a bit of trouble. Restricted for a month and couldn't contact her through the wards around the school, awww.

Oh, they are in the candle flame, so Thulia didn't cross over physically. Dang, that kiss. Ah good, send something to Morgana's physical address so she can contact Thulia, no more trouble on that end. Darn, candle going out right as Morgana has Thulia in a deep kiss, always with the bad timing. Awww, already misses Thulia. And no signs left of what they did, nice. Even tell Bianca the steamy bits, now that is a close friend.

Overcast morning, yet Morgana is smiling as she almost danced along, someone is going to figure out what is up with her easily. Bianca, Laura, and Bailey looking more depressed, what is up with them? Hehe, thinking Morgana has a new Espresso machine. Singing happy songs in the showers, that early in the morning, dang, just that short time with Thulia has Morgana on Cloud Nine. Laura glaring at Bianca, talking about how Morgana has changed.

"So, Glyph, where is the REAL Morgana and what have you done with the body?"

hehehe.

Great story, loved seeing all the details from the magic classes. Morgana's encounter with Jamie Howe and the aftermath, wondering what they will do about her. And I love how Morgana was able to contact Thulia without, at least technically, breaking any of the school rules. I know Laura and her other friends are annoyed at her happiness but I love seeing Morgana so happy, she deserves to be. Can't wait to see more of Morgana and the rest of M3.