My teacher is THE Ancient Elf. I thought the lessons would be exciting, and, sometimes they are, but they're pretty mundane, too. I'm working hard, want to make hir proud. But now they're having me help another beginner, too. Wow, didn't know teaching was this hard.
https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04371-k353-itinerant-educator -- Anon Guest
What nobody tells you about learning magic is how boring the practice can be. How humbling it is to know how difficult everything actually was. Including re-learning Ancient Elven. My grammar sucks and my pronounciation is worse.
As for history, hir first lesson was why they called it the Imploded Empire. There's bryg'haduuns all over the place. Cities that pop up out of nowhere. Places you can only reach at a certain time of year. Places that come into existence for one day, and vanish again for years.
I learned all about the Singing Brick Plague, the Carnivorous Forest, or all the species of aberrations and abominations that resulted from magical experimentation gone bad. It was very alarming to learn how close I had come to turning people inside-out or making rats be the size of ploughhorses.
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