A Spell for Twilight_Rosewilde Academy of Magical Arts by B. C. Palmer & Marie Robinson

Author:B. C. Palmer & Marie Robinson [Palmer, B. C. & Robinson, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harbinger Press LLC
Published: 2019-11-01T05:00:00+00:00

Amelia

For the fifth time, we tried to capture my memories and store them in one of the memory stones. It was about the size of a large marble, the kind you’d call a striker if you knew anything about playing marbles, which I didn’t until Isaac explained it. Magicians had a similar game, it turned out, that kids played. More magician culture I never learned since my extended family presumably didn’t know I existed.

For the fifth time, though, we failed.

I growled frustration and had the urge to throw the damn thing across the living room. “What are we doing wrong?”

Lucas exhaled a tense breath he’d been holding as he maintained the stability spell and sagged backward, into the nearest couch to rub his temples. “It’s me, I think. The spell becomes unstable for some reason, and it’s exponential. As soon as the first instability appears, it seems to double every few seconds until I can’t maintain it.”

“The mnemonic stream progresses too quickly,” Nathan said. “Isaac, you absolutely must control the flow of engram packets and keep them to a reasonable pace, or they will overwhelm the stability field every time.”

Isaac scoffed. “It’s not the rate of transfer, it’s the fact that you aren’t compressing them fast enough, they get backed up and the spell is overloaded with information. There’s no way to control the rate of transfer. It’s not in the spell parameters.”

“Maybe if we switched roles?” Hunter offered.

“Maybe,” Lucas agreed. “We can take another few weeks to learn the spells.”

We’d taken almost six to learn our respective roles. Realistically, everyone only had to learn at most, two positions in the process. My fingers ached from being the first test case and maintaining the sequence of spells intended to loosen my own engrams. It was physically exhausting to not only repeat the sequence at exactly the same speed each time, but also mentally exhausting to keep my mind from wandering as it happened. There was a good reason this technique wasn’t actually used for laying the groundwork for intelligent constructs. If we actually did pull off just the transfer and storage, we actually could have changed the entire field.

“Let’s just take a break,” I told them. “We can try again when we’re fresh. Or maybe start with someone else, and I’ll try my hand at the stability field.”

Nathan was already in the brooding, problem solving mode, pacing slowly with his arms folded, his chin tucked as he watched the floor in front of him. “The equations are correct,” he muttered. “I’m certain of that. The formulas implement them perfectly. Five attempts and we have the same problem each time… there has to be some factor that isn’t being accounted for.”

“Well, whatever it is,” I said as I dropped onto the couch next to Lucas, “we can’t figure it out while our brains are fried. We’re back in class tomorrow, we can spend the week working it out and then try again next weekend.”

Nathan gave a soft grunt. “Maybe that’s best.”

Lucas and I exchanged a surprised look.

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