Maurgeth the Terrible, Maury for short and not by choice, is lazy. Intensely, and unrepentantly so. She is given the task, along with the rest of the final year students at Lord Vargon’s School for Talented Magic Users and Animal Handlers (Disaffected Young Adults Branch), to acquire 100 souls by the end of the school term. But...Maury is lazy, and joining the gathering party to go attack human settlements seems like tiring and sweaty work. Luckily, she happens to have an Arcane Engineering stat higher than anyone else in the school, and a broody looking old mirror laying around in her room. When things don't go as planned, hijinks ensue, and Maury finds herself stuck with more than just a pile of bones and a reasonably full soul crystal... June 2023 Community Magazine Writing Prompt