(Lily & Rose)
After we were free for the day we followed Virion to where his sister works, which we find out when we get there to be a library. One of the largest buildings in the town it is built into (grown into?) a giant tree with magical lights floating around seeming to follow an outlined path, it’s easily over 200 ft on the outside.
Following Virion in we see a library which seems to be more of a labyrinth of books then an organized library when we get to the point we cant see the exit, Virion turns to us and says, “Well good luck. My sister told me to bring you in and have you make your way through the library on your own she said if you could do that then she would allow you to study under her.” as he says this he turns and leaves quicker than our eyes can follow.
We just got left in a library without knowing the way through to where we need to go. What do we need to do? We are here to learn magic, in order to do that we need to make it through the labyrinth of books, we have 3 paths we could go we now one of them leads to the entrance and the other two we haven’t explored or been able to infer what is beyond.
“Lily?”
“Yeah?”
“Thinking the same?”
“definitely.”
“Then.”
“Together.”
“And?”
“Left.”
We decided to head left, after walking for about 30 minutes we get to another crossroad and the scenery changes instead of looking like a library back on earth it changes to be more like a shadow of what it was the lights dim and everything else goes dark, and the pathways are barred by vines growing in, we see a sign which is the only place that light is still shining on, the sign reads:
‘Something tragic happened 19 years ago in this place. Find out what, and you can restore the light, fail and embrace the dark.’
Something tragic? Hmm we could probably figure this out if we had somewhere to research its a good thing we are in a library, but that might not help with how little light there is, wait we can still see? Ok lets start.
“Left.”
“Right.”
Lilly goes to the bookshelf on the left and starts looking for a book that would have information on something tragic from 19 years ago.
While Rose goes to the right and does the same.
We both skim through all the books that could have a tragic event from 19 years ago spending no more than 15 minutes on each book unless it has something promising in it. After spending around eight hours on it we both finished skimming all the books, we then read the books that were more promising in more depth, in the end, Lily finds that the town of Thistle Bane was invaded by a force of humans. While Rose finds that after that siege the elves lost use of all magic, it barely coming back in the last 3 years. We walk over to the sign and looked for a place to answer deciding that we would combine them into one answer: ‘Do to the invasion by humans, the elves have lost their ties to magic which are only just coming back.’
When we put that on the sign the world lights back up, the lights regaining there brilliant shine the vines growing into doors instead of walls, the shadows recede vanquished by the light. Allowing us to see well actually it doesn't really change anything with our vision. We keep going, following the path to the left.
After walking for what feels like 3 hours we come to a space more open than any other we have seen in this labyrinth of books. With a desk that looks similar to a receptionist desk and siting there is a human? Elf? She looks young at most 19 years old.
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“Hello, welcome to the Library of Magic and Memories what can I do for you?” the girl called out.
“We are here to learn magic from, Virions sister. Is that you?”
“Yes that is me but I would prefer if you called me by my name.”
“Sorry about that Vanya.”
(Vanya)
Today is the day my brother said he was going to bring a pair of guards to the library, he said they claim to have the Apprentice class even though they say they don't know any magic, but he is bringing them because they saved his life.
It’s a valid reason for him to bring them but are they really going to be able to make it through the Labyrinth? It’s a rather simple thing for every question you get wrong you need to answer two correct (one more question) you start only needing to answer one question, the first question is one that none has ever gotten right. The least number of questions any one had to answer was 4. The first question requires you to take two answers and combine them even the best that has come through failed to get this right by picking one of the answers not both.
Ah no need to reminisce about the past I need to prepare for if they do make it, I still have to get the crystals out of the storage place and everything else preparing the entrance test and everything just incase they do make it through the labyrinth.
Oh they got here my brother leads them in and then walks out. Just looking at them with my ‘Glass Mirror’ skill I can tell they are beautiful even for elven standards, they both have silver hair with streaks of gold, one of them has a left eye of silver and a right eye of gold, the other has the opposite a left eye of gold and a right eye of silver, both of them are wearing the standard issue gear I see my brother in almost every time he visits. Yeah this is definitely a joke there is no way anyone that beautiful could match the stories he told me one standing with a shield who feels more terrifying than any creature has any right to feel even without attacking or even looking in there direction, and a second standing in the firsts shadow not moving until the first opens the enemy up for an attack, but when they attack if you blink you’d miss it swords quicker then lighting, even if you see them they don't feel as terrifying as they should almost like the other lowers your perception of the real threat and increases how much of a threat you find her.
After he left they started looking around then had a conversation fairly singlewordedly:
“Lily?”
“Yeah?”
“Thinking the same?”
“definitely.”
“Then.”
“Together.”
“And?”
“Left.”
Before heading left. This is where I knew they were going to fail the left is the path that has the most varied questions but the first question is the same as all the others:
‘Something tragic happened 19 years ago in this place. Find out what, and you can restore the light, fail and embrace the dark.’
They are new to town from what my brother said so they shouldn't know any possible answers and need to study which will take them time, reading through whole books is time consuming when you're looking for particular things. Well they could skim through books but then they might miss something and I doubt they would be willing to risk something like that.
They get to the first question and both of them read it before one of them calls out left and the other says right, and they start going through the books starting on their respective side of the room. They spend around 10 minutes on each book and end up taking well over nine hours. And I thought they were going to be impressive but they end up spending more time on the first question then anyone else has spent on the first 2 questions combined.
After all this time they look at each other like they just came to an understanding and one of them, the one with a left eye of silver, walks up and writes on the bored:
“Do to the invasion by humans, the elves have lost their ties to magic which are only just coming back.”
As I read that im impressed and terrified, they got the first question right on their first try something that I failed to do, and could only answer correctly after 4 tries. They then continued to follow the lights going left when they can. They finished the labyrinth in 10 hours when the next quickest person spent over 20 hours.
When they get to the core room which I am in, they ask if im Virions sister and say that they are here to learn magic from me. After telling them that my name is Vanya and that I am Virions sister I ask them,
“What do you wish to be able to accomplish with your magic?”
{Lily & Rose}
What we want to accomplish with our magic? That should be easy either defeat our foes or no that's not right what do we want to do? Magic is something that we could have only dreamed of having a week ago and now its seeming more and more like a possibility but do we really know what we want to use it for? We are already more skilled in combat than we thought was possible back on earth. Magic could do anything we could use it to fight but that seems like an insult to something that should be used to help magic might be able to kill but that can't be it's only use can it? We should be able to heal the sick and wounded, build things otherwise impossible, improve life as a whole. We want to help the world grow we want to help it be safe.
“We want to use magic for the betterment of everyone, we want to wield magic in a way to save lives not take them, we want to be able to help.”