Episode 96 - A Well Deserved Break

## Synopsis

**Disclaimer:** This episode happened three weeks since the students fought Neska, and contains several flashbacks to that interim time. Due to this, the episode summary has been spilt into Present events and Flashback sections, in the order in which they happened in the episode, to (hopefully) avoid confusion.

### Present:

In a refurbished Old Chapel, a tired Gennal and a well-rested Kurt discussed life, and came across Serinepth and Angelika who were having a study session. Genall asked Serinepth how Phillip was doing, and she explained that he was ok, but still resting.

### Flashback (Serinepth):

One day while she was visiting him, Phillip woke up and opened his eyes to reveal they had turned completely yellow, with no iris or pupil. Despite this, he was still able to see her, and the two had a tearful reunion.

### Present:

Back in the Old Chapel, Winsler (with Mr. Wiggles in his hat) and Yog, were stacking shelves. Kurt gave him a package for Integrity, and asked for Yog to help him with a project.

### Flashback (Winsler):

One afternoon, Winsler went into the Archives looking for books on how to bind a creature to another creature or object. While walking around, he encountered an angry modron who fixed a squeaky wheel on his book cart, thus furthering his feud with them.

He also heard a person humming, and eventually found a greenhouse in the Archives, with trees growing books on them. In the room, another Ava Redding was planting book pages. When she saw him, she seemed incredibly scared that he was there and knew her name. He tried to explain he meant no harm, to no avail. He then left as he heard her cry, looking back the pathway to the garden had disappeared.

### Present:

Having been given the package, Winsler headed to the kitchen to look for Integrity. While on his way, he ran into Corrina Lindeman, who looked very angry. She asked if he had seen her sister, storming past him when he said he hadn’t. Arriving at the kitchen, he found Integrity looking for cereal. She grabbed the box and a bowl of sweets and headed back to her study buddy, Aira Allaro.

Winsler gave her the package, and she opened it to find a knife sheath made of lead, with an indented spiralling pattern twisting around it.

### Flashback (Integrity):

Integrity was sitting in Professor Doss’ office, who didn’t look very happy. Doss asked what Integrity wanted, she asked if there was a way to see the history of a wand (the wand she found in the Hatch, and had Kurt fix for her). Doss confirmed there was a spell that could do this, but the Conjuration department was underfunded and couldn’t afford it.

Integrity said she would be able to get the money, and asked how the repairs would affect the spell. Doss, who now seemed much happier, replied that it wouldn’t affect the spell, only the ability for another person to cast spells with it. Satisfied, Integrity handed over the 390 gold needed for the spell, and looking out the window noticed several dozen blackbirds staring at her and calling out “*Aye Aye Aye*”. After a moment of writing, Doss told her she the *Spell Scroll of Conjure Memory* would be ready in a week or two.

### Present:

Integrity dug through her bag to find her Jade Knife, also finding the spell scroll she asked for. As she put the knife in its sheath, she heard a blackbird caw loudly.

In another room, Mira was struggling (and eventually failing) to lift weights with her new, mechanical arm. Earlier, Murundeen had told her that the arm was useless, as it could only be used to play music, so they made a bet to prove it was useful. Veldon was also there.

### Flashback (Mira):

In the Necromancy department, Mira was lying on a table while Professor Allaro attached her new prosthetic arm. It was a golden-brass colour, and segmented into sections at the joints. The upper arm made of an ivory-like material, while the hand was more plush to account for playing music. It had no pinky finger.

After a while, Allaro tightened a spring, and Mira felt a jolt of sensation through her new arm. They adjusted it until it felt comfortable and natural, and Mira got her arm back. To test out the arm, she played her lyre, and as the music rang true she felt whole again.

Allaro gave her some arm care rules, saying she needed to take it off every night, and to ask someone to help her do that and put it back on. She also asked how Delnys was doing, saying she had come around nearly every day.

### Present:

Murundeen continued to insult Mira’s arm, saying he would prefer a strong steel arm in case something tried to take his other one. Mira got rightly annoyed and told him he was welcome to whenever someone bit his arm off. Hearing this argument, Integrity walked over to defend her friend. As Integrity roasted Murundeen, Winsler walked over and gave him a book titled “*Reading the Room: Empathy for Dummies*”.

The peaceful day passed, and as the students gathered their bags, Artis met them in their office. He gave them some forms to send to their families, which gave information on the Autumn’s End festival.

### Flashback (SWIM+Artis):

SWIM and a well-dressed Artis stood in the rain over a small mound of earth under a towering elm tree.

## Trivia

* The loss of Mira’s arm is being attributed to an accident in the Zoology department when a creature escaped into the sewers