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[windyvoice]

Seventeen.

[wythersake]

When apprentices are your age, they are Harrowed. A test, of sorts — one sets out to meet a demon, and to deny it.

[ more or less. ]

But before that, they are prepared. I imagine the library still has a book or two.

[windyvoice]

[ Weird thing about being a shape shifter is she can feel it a lot more when shit like this happens. Bristling up, tension back in her and eyes narrowing. ]

They call that kind of shit quests where I'm from.

[wythersake]

I don't suggest sending you upon one. Riftwatch conducting a Harrowing would have broader consequences.

[ a loose gesture: he's not about to go into the politics of it. that's not the point. ]

But generations of mages have made a study of surviving them — if you cannot have time, I would that you at least the gift of their knowledge. Not all were given it.

[windyvoice]

[ That eases her a little bit, even if she still has a little bit of a feral-and-ready-to-bite vibe going. ]

All right. What am I supposed to look for? Like titles and authors and shit.

[wythersake]

Anything with Fadewalking or Will in the title will do to start.

[ i'm not making up books rn. a small breath, ]

It is not about forgetting how to feel; it's remembering who does the feeling. Tell yourself what matters — You're Jenny Lou. You're seventeen, and clever, and a bit of a pain in the ass. Whatever matters to you.

[windyvoice]

Aw, you think I'm clever.

[ She's a lot of a pain in the ass, thank you. ]

[wythersake]

Clever enough to juice the stinkhorns?

[windyvoice]

Is that what you were doing to that poor toad?

[wythersake]

Fabria, I think she believes you wounded.

[ the toad croaks. ]

[windyvoice]

Fabria, blink twice if he's a toad squeezer.

[wythersake]

[windyvoice]

Fuck, it's worse than I thought.