“Well, yeah. But what’s that got to do with anything?” Ed was pretty sure it hadn’t gone over that after all.
“Hmm, maybe it didn’t go over the specifics. It’s really simple.” She pointed to a couple of her players, “See those two? Focus on the aura, then close your eyes and try to keep your senses on them.”
He obliged her. The chances felt pretty low she was going to like shank him or anything.
“You’re not actually using your eyes to see. I’ve heard some of the midwestern covens blindfold their protegees, at least in the early years, to get rid of the dependance.”
“Open them up again.”
If he hadn’t been sitting Ed was pretty sure he would have tripped. The players were standing on opposite ends of one of the bleachers now, but the auras were… He closed his eyes again. Alright, that was super disorienting. His sight kept trying to force the bubbles apart when they’d never even been moved to begin with.
He heard a snort followed by a short wheeze. “Totally worth it!” Liah’d pulled out her phone and had taken a shot of his face. “My god, Suki’s gonna die over this.”
Ed looked at her blankly.
“Hmm?” Her chair moved up out of its recline. “Oh right, Serah wants to see you. don’t worry about the chess board. Seth always brings his own, thought I’d flip the tables on him this time.”
“Were you gunning for that the whole time?”
“You want me to delete it?” She whined. She looked very sad about the matter and Ed had to almost catch himself from feeling sorry for her.
The narrative has been illicitly obtained; should you discover it on Amazon, report the violation.
“You know what? Sure, just hold onto it.” Her tip had been incredibly helpful and like, what was she even going to do with it? Blackmail him?
Ed wasn’t sure what excuse Mr. Garry used for the school, but there wasn’t exactly anyone left to be embarrassed to for him.
As he jogged back up to the walkways Ed tried to figure out what Serah would want with him. It turned out Mr. Garry was around even less often than he’d originally thought. The ‘class’ he taught wasn’t even a class, it was just some sort of self replicating memory construct he’d inserted into the incredibly large scale suggestion net he’d cast over the school.
Asking Serah had revealed that it was only a prototype too. Apparently it was part of some sort of large scale product to back that Pomt thing Mr. Garry seemed to be a part of. How any of that tied together Ed had no idea but what it usually meant for him was that Mr. Garry was gone, and Serah was essentially his mouthpiece. So it was probably less about Serah wanting to see him, but rather Mr. Garry.
Over the last month or so he’d been sent the second book in the Helig series, a single use teleportation talisman he’d been warned very profusely about never to activate unless absolutely necessary as it was incredibly expensive and if he wanted another one he was going to have to buy it himself; and then finally a large stack of catalogs detailing popular mana to drachma conversion methods.
That last one had been a little confusing as he wasn’t exactly too sure where to perform the experiments, but after pointing it out to Serah Mr. Garry directed him towards the old baseball diamonds and told him to use those, he’d altered the net to keep people away so Ed could rest assured he’d be undisturbed.
Ed slowed down a bit as he got to her room. Despite being close enough now to see a bit of the smoke from the diamonds, he was unfortunately no closer to figuring out what she might want. If he followed the trend, it was probably something along the lines of another hand-off of, well, something. Probably.
The door opened as he approached and Serah poked her head out the gap, she’d apparently slid over on the rolling chair and her head was at an angle too so her hair fell to the side. “Ed. Will you give me your opinion on this?”
Huh, or not.
She slid back into the room and Ed hastily caught the door so he could slip in after her.