H. M. Academy

**H. M. Academy** is a school in the Magic Realm dedicated to teaching young adult witches to harness Magic and master spells. It is currently headed by headmistress Maeve Midnight and is attended by four students once Arthur and Jade are accepted.

## History

Not much is currently known about the academy itself. What is known is that hundreds of years ago, it was a very prominent school, but as magic became less popular, fewer witches joined, and eventually not enough students were attending to keep the institution running. So, the school was shut down. Sometime shortly before Arthur and Jade joined, Maeve Midnight took over as headmistress of the school and began accepting students again. Maeve believes that magic is returning to the realm and wishes to rejuvenate the spirit of magic in the realm to the level it once was. Unfortunately, only two students joined by the time classes started.

## Rooms

### Headmistress's office

This office is the primary workplace of the headmistress Maeve Midnight. She holds most of her meetings in here, and it is where Arthur and Jade are first introduced to Maeve and the academy. Maeve is usually seen working in the office during the morning and afternoon.

### White Magic Classroom

   The only classroom seen in the school, this is where the primary lessons in White Magic are held. Classes are held in the morning, during which Ms. Lilith and all the other students are present for lessons. In the afternoon, Ms. Lilith can still be found here, and Elizabeth remains to continue her studies.

### Hallways

   The hallways connect the many rooms and sections of the academy, including the dorms, lockers, classrooms, offices, and infirmary. At one point in the halls between the dorms and classrooms, there is a trap door in the ceiling which leads to a space inside the walls of the building, in which the Bookworm resides. The hallways also contain the school lockers.

### Dorms

The students attending the academy live in the building in dormitories. Each student is provided their own room, which is decorated beforehand to each student's liking. The dorms share a communal bathroom, much to the dismay of Arthur. Along with his own dorm, Arthur has access to Jade's and Lulu's dorms. Each girl can be found in her own room in the afternoon. Jade is seen reading on her bed, and Lulu is admiring herself in a mirror. Angelika can be found in Arthur's dorm during the afternoon, hard at work cleaning. The school does not seem to have a high level of security, as Annie breaks into the school and sneaks into Arthur's room on multiple occasions.

### Infirmary

The infirmary is the office and main workplace of the school nurse, Dr. Céline. It is here where she tends to injured students, as Arthur is taken here after falling unconscious. In the back of the room, there is a secret entrance to Dr. Céline's secret laboratory, where two clear capsules descend from the ceiling, carrying the doctor and one other person to the lab. In this lab, Dr. Céline conducts experiments that combine science and magic, something which is considered taboo in the Magic Realm. The lab is also home to MollyBot, an AI robot that assists the doctor with her research. Dr. Céline conducts all of her research and experiments on Arthur in here, since it is well hidden to keep the truth about Arthur secret.

### Kitchen

The Academy has a kitchen where staff and students can cook. Jade uses it after asking permission from Maeve in order to bake a cake for Arthur to give to Annie.

## Inhabitants

The Academy is shown to have sentient creatures permanently residing inside the building, which serve a purpose to benefit the school.

### Wormbook

The Wormbook, also called the piranha, is a plant-based organism that moved into the Academy many centuries ago and has lived within the walls ever since. The teachers at the school would allow her to swallow books and supplies to transport them to different parts of the building. The space in which the Wormbook resides can be accessed through trap doors in the ceiling. At the time Arthur and Jade start classes, Lilith states that the Wormbook has not been feeling well, and so Angelika must go inside the plant to acquire the supplies stored within. The Wormbook's diet consists of insects, dirt, and seeds, of which apple seeds are her favorite.

### Lockers

The lockers in the Academy are sentient beings capable of speech. They appear like regular double door lockers until they start speaking, While speaking, they have a single large yellow eye with three pupils, and they can move their form like a body, as seen when Jade's locker shakes as it laughs. Students are only allowed to use a locker by getting one to laugh, and the locker they make laugh will be theirs until they graduate.

### Skully

Skully is a sentient magical device that can be told to perform tasks, such as deliver letters. It resembles a human skull and moves by levitating. Its most useful feature is the ability to allow two people to speak to each other over long distances, and it is considered the Magic Realm's equivalent of a cell phone. Maeve is seen using Skully to answer a call and deliver a paper to the post office.