Flight Journals: Day 3

I fell asleep in the library last night, doing a bit of research on different schools of magic.

With everyone earning so many different skills I'm trying to find some correlation between schools and the people behind them. Some of them make sense, some not so much, but it all has to be for a reason, right?

Maddy and that guy Pyro woke me up - not the best first impression I think. I think I upset Maddy too. The way she talked about her magic felt a little... I don't know... like she hadn't unlocked it yet? This is all so strange for all of us so I don't want to assume anything about anyone, but she felt... sad. I hope she's okay. Her and Pyro were fighting a lot, I hope he's just not being a bully or anything. He definitely seems like he's figuring out things too.

But with everything I'd been reading - magic has been dormant for at least decades, probably longer. There's been some successes with rituals and alchemical or mechanical advancement in society, but individually casted magic, especially that which we're starting to see right now, is rare.

Later that day, people started screaming in the halls that some of the dragons were hatching! Graecie caught be right away and was practically sprinting from place to place, her bells ringing as she was skipping. I tripped maybe half a dozen times trying to keep up with her, but between her, Sausage, Zam, Sniff, and me we were all able to wake our dragons, and with it - some new magic.

This second spell... something feels... off about it. I keep trying to harness the spell but something just feels like while I know the words, something about what I have to DO with it feels wrong. I know it doesn't stop arrows, which was such a STUPID idea, I don't know why I asked Sausage to shoot me, maybe I just wanted to look cool in front of her everyone. I was able to fling a bucket across the room though eventually!

We walked through another ruined town on the way back, and Sniff and Zam started talking about how they both ended up here. They seemed to be more along the lines of not exactly volunteering themselves, and more being forced to be here. It's so strange to think that anyone would be FORCED to be here at the academy, especially with how much we've been able to move about freely, but they did make me feel a bit scared about everything.

We took Zam to the Wizard's tower to seep the planetarium on the upper level of our celestrium. At least, I think that's what it's called? I can try to look more around the library about extraplanar sciences, but it will take some time before I can get to that.

We're all going to try to get into one of the restricted sections of the school soon, maybe find out a bit more. Maybe I shouldn't be writing this? I'm not sure. I hide this book pretty well though, so I think it should be fine. Maybe if I can figure out this repulsion spell I could make sure the guards couldn't catch us? I don't know how much we we really want to do this. Sniff seems adamant we need to figure out more.

I spent a bit more time studying and feel asleep in the library again... going to go raid the kitchens and head back to sleep. There's a few more books that I want to grab a copy of and store them back in my place.

Tomorrow, I think I'm going to just take a breather. So much has happened so fast, and I want to try to get my thoughts together and find a spot to study and experiment a bit more. I've also had this nagging headache for a day or two, so I want to try to see if anyone can help with that. There's got to be a clinic hidden somewhere in this school...